Posts filed under 'Webby'
I cam across this today. Doing this quiz your tastes, and styles are matched to a famous photographer:
Here are my results:
One of my own: Clearly he acquired all he knows from his former master.
August 15th, 2007
Playing around with plugins
Using a combination of plugins to achieve the goal
The goal is..
Objective: to place code in the page and have mini applications working within the parameters of the page
To that end I have mashed a few plugins together and will now try and explain why, that is before I forget myself
Initially I just wanted to be able to add things I had learnt or wanted to explain in the blog post page.
For eg. I followed a tutorial See previous post
I had to at the time take the example out of the wordpress loop, I couldn’t find a way to add the necessary code to the head section of the page without that code residing in every subsequent post I made. See auto generated content in previous highlighted post.
So another plugin to the rescue, sometimes they sound great , but don’t always live up to expectations, this is not one of those. It does what it says, But I still have struggles, and be aware I do make things difficult for myself.. You know I am just playing around here, nowt too serious.
To add a link to a style sheet specific to the
particular post I am writing is easy using the box generated, which appears under your post text box
<link href="mystyle.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
So adding the above style sheet link to the add headers box will generate that link, but obviously does nothing to any links that are in the core wordpress index template. These links remain. and I’m wondering now why I am bothered
At this point I have kind of realized that it isn’t a mashup really at all, but to go back would be folly. I kind of wanted to get into what I had done, and why. It seemed like a good idea at the time.
A new page template
Nice tutorial on Binary Moon
I made new page template as shown below, but created a new header..header1.php and had the template call that.
<?php
/*
Template Name: Uniqu
*/
?>
<?php
define('WP_USE_THEMES', false);
require('header1.php');
?>
<div id="content">
</div>
<?php get_footer(); ?>
Why, and for what purpose would you do that
Deleted the style sheet link that is why
And we come full circle..
hello Mr.Plugin, I think I need to add a new unrelated link here.
Could be css, javascript, whatever.
At the end of all that I have test page, not done anything with this yet, but in combination with another ‘add page plugin’ and ‘keep page from main navigation plugin’, we have an option from the web interface to be able easily to add unique content and style to the blog on the fly.
I will have to re-write this..
August 12th, 2007
One century ago; ie, a decent lifetime..
Our world view has changed dramatically in a relatively short period of time. To cast back one hundred years the existence of the atom in modern scientific circles was not widely accepted.
How strange to imagine folks still wandering around on this spinning mass of rock in space didn’t have any kind of insight to their own structural makeup.
Click Atom pic to visit site where pic was procured.
My understanding is limited, and no doubt will seem primitive to those future folk who sit here when my mortal body decompiles.
I believe through analysis, that my heritage is a combination of Klingon, Vulcan but primarily human, which would account for the inconsistent thought processes, a need to get shit organized, and a complete lack of empathy for any other viewpoint..
So to do some serious thinking here..
Planks constant is where I will begin. For it serves well as a starting, learning point.
The Planck constant (denoted h) is a physical constant that is used to describe the sizes of quanta. It plays a central role in the theory of quantum mechanics, and is named after Max Planck, one of the founders of quantum theory. A closely-related quantity is the reduced Planck constant (also known as Dirac’s constant and denoted ħ, pronounced “h-bar”). The Planck constant is also used in measuring energy emitted as photons, such as in the equation E=hν, where E is energy, h is Planck’s constant, and ν (Greek letter nu) is frequency. The Planck constant and the reduced Planck constant are used to describe quantization, a phenomenon occurring in subatomic particles such as electrons and photons in which certain physical properties occur in fixed amounts rather than assuming a continuous range of possible values.
source
More to follow, just need to extract the information from a parallel universe.
July 29th, 2007
System configuration utility
The Windows System Configuration Utility (msconfig) is a system tool that allows you to remove programs from automatically starting when windows begins. Removing unnecessary programs from startup should allow your computer to boot up faster.
To check what programs you have running on startup, run msconfig.exe from your start menu.
Hit the run button, and in the box type msconfig.exe to open the application.
You will then be taken to this screen. Hit the startup button to view programs set to start when windows boots up.
Users and systems are all different but generally I believe all that is essential is power management, system tray, anti-virus, and firewall. A good resource for checking the programs running can be found here.
Start up applications list
After checking applications against this list you can uncheck programs you don’t need at startup. These are not deleted only disabled, so if you have need of them in the future, or have removed an essential program, you simply go back check the box and re-start your computer.
June 12th, 2007
Free online file conversion
I have often spent a lot of time searching for file conversion sites, for one purpose or another. This site looks as though it might streamline the whole process.
Zamzar free online file conversion.
I came across this today, and although I havn’t yet used it, or had it recommended, I thought I’d do a quick post for my own reference, bookmarking will inevitably get lost amongst all the other semi interesting sites I find on a daily basis. That is another story for a later post.
The site covers image, doc, music and video conversion, you simply upload file and submit e-mail and in theory they post back the converted file. Goooooooodo!!
June 9th, 2007
Just reading through a few e-mail news/web dev articles, when I came across this post on SitePoint Forums.
I decided to post this link just for the fun of it, some interesting comments along the way.Enjoy:
March 25th, 2007
File Transfer Protocol
A fast and efficient way to move your files through cyber space. Below you will find a short tutorial to show how it works using WS_FTP LE
So thats what you see when you activate the software.
Under the session properties when you have correctly entered the details you see:
Your local files on the left(stuff that’s on your computer)
Server files on the right (where you want to sent the stuff.)
Hit ok, and the connection will be made.
When connection established, usually only a few seconds, you can navigate through your local files (on the left), using the green arrow. Click this until you get to your root drive. Usually the c:\ drive as below:
From here you should be able to find your pics etc. to send to the server.
You will have a destination folder ready.
In this example the folder is called amelofile (on the right), double left click folder to open it. It is empty in the example.
Note: Click the binary box to send pictures. Click the ASCII to send text files. Make sure the files you want to send are highlghted and click the arrow in the middle of the two locations in the direction you want to send. So in this case to upload to server click right. That’s it… Job done
You can download a copy here: WS_FTP LE 3.2
February 24th, 2007
The clearfix way
As mentioned in a previous post, my first website central12.com has moved from free hosting to the servers at Dreamhost.
All the transferring went fairly smoothly, but with the move I was checking through pages, on a newly installed version of internet explorer.
When page construction collapsed
IE 7, and it seems the guys on the ie team have fixed the box model bug, which is a good thing, but now doesn’t support the :before and :after pseudo-elements.
My main pages on the afore mentioned site consist of a two columned on top of a three columned layout, and uses clearfix :after to clear the floated elements.
I had only previosly tested in firefox and IE 6 and the situation was fine.
Convinced that my css and general markup was reasonably ok, I decided to see if it would hold well on microsofts new browser.
Initially everything looked fine, but on closer inspection I noticed the top section of my page slightly overlapped the bottom section, and instantly realised it was a problem concerened with the floated elements, more frustratingly the problem would correct itself if the page was refreshed, which I thought might make testing any fixes a little difficult.
I had a little play around, but to no avail and was beginning to worry that I’d have to visit every page that utilised the 2:3 template.
Not quite loosing all hope, for I am if nothing else dogged and most stubborn, and the solution quickly presented itself.
I googled, the classic first port of call when in a crisis. Searched clearfix ie7 and landed here.at 456 Berea street, and found the link to the solution, I hope.
December 28th, 2006
I have finally taken the plunge
I have swapped free hosting for the feature filled befefits you can only get through quality paid hosting.
Check out the hosting packages at Dreamhost
This site is still presently hosted by the fantastic team at awardspace, but I expect to be transferring the domain soon.
Why make the move
Well I have been at this web design thing for a while now, and in the beginning, through the learnig curve high on my list of priorities was to use open source and free software/ hosting. This has worked well and with the help of the community, and google I have indeed achieved what I set out to do.
Things change over time however and I have been toying with the idea of paid hosting primarily to make my jod as designer easier.
Obvious befefits
1. Storage space, file upload size, bandwidth.
More space for pics, sites, and faster loading times, that is both upload and page rendering times.
2. Unlimited domains/subdomains and databases
I once tried to split my one database to create two independant sites, needless to say it was a futile task.
More later, work to do!
December 19th, 2006
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