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css, web design and general nerdery

shadows and light

I recently upgraded the version of Wordpress that I’m using to run this site to 2.5. Among its new features are some that have to do with how it handles images, including the ability to generate image galleries and extract exif data from uploaded images. So it’s probably time for me to revisit the design [...]

updated photo galleries

It’s been about 9 months since I started this blog, and I’m still at it. Holy shit. I’m still posting on a somewhat regular basis, and it’s slowly evolving into a blog mainly about my developing passion for photography, including shooting infrared, with occasional excursions off that beaten path.
In parallel with the development of this [...]

I feel loved

I’ve had this blog up for a bit more than a month, and this morning I find that Akismet has caught my first spam comment. Someone wanted to tell me about sexy lingerie. I feel so loved. :)

Blog Challenge: Top Ten List of Blog Goals (the short version)

Lorelle on WordPress asks “Blog a top ten list of goals for your blog this year”. Blog Challenge: Top Ten List of Blog Goals - Lorelle on WordPress
What are my top ten list of goals for my blog in 2007? This blog is less than a month old, so my top 10 goals for this [...]

theme flakiness

Since upgrading to WP 2.1 RC1 I’m encountering a bit of flakiness with the site layout using the links generated by “wp_get_archives”. The flakiness doesn’t seem to be there if I switch to the default theme, or the themes from plaintxt.org, so it’s clearly an issue with something in my theme, and not WP. Expect [...]

living life on the edge

I had to take the plunge and update to WordPress 2.1 RC1. The upgrade went smoothly, with one hitch. It took me a while to figure out that the tag wp_listcats seems to have been deprecated, and replaced by wp_listcategories. Before finding the wp_list_categories function it messed up the display of categories in my site [...]

It’s alive

It’s a minor achievement, in the greater scheme of things, but I’m happy.
I got the “recent tunes” display in the sidebar working the way I want. I spent quite a bit of time looking for something that would work the way I wanted, and nothing quite fit the bill. The WordPress plug-ins I tried either [...]

before my morning coffee

It’s Monday, Marting Luther King day. My wife doesn’t have classes today, and neither does my daughter. They get to sleep in. I get to go to work.
I spent the better part of yesterday trying to figure out how to automatically export my recently played music from iTunes to an .xml file, then upload and [...]

layout and web design

For anyone who happens to come across this site in the next few days using Internet Explorer on Windows, my apologies for the layout. I do my work on a Mac, testing the layout with Safari and Firefox. The theme for this site is based on Vistered Little and I haven’t dug through the css [...]