Techie Stuff Articles

Backbutton focus

So -- I wonder if this method would have made better shots of the hummingbirds outside my window. Next season, I think I'll give it a try... maybe test it out on some fast moving grandchildren. It is fortunate that I too shoot with a Canon 6D, so these instructions...

Notes to self

Some great places to learn Divi and get help: (list to be updated regularly, I hope) Elegant Themes Blog - the creators of Divi offer some good ideas and tutorials Quiroz.co - tutorials and more DiviThemeExamples - examples of themes, tutorials and more DiviSoup -...

First Foray in to Ecommerce: Puritee Designs

I recently developed a website for Puritee Designs. Among the items for sale on the site is this burnout tank, sporting a runner design. I think she's really cute! Size small medium large x-large Quantity

WooThemes: Customizing for a Network Install

I recently migrated the vast majority of famvin.org sites in to a Network (multi-site) Wordpress installation. There were, and continue to be, hitches along the way. And there were lessons learned that can be applied in other situations. For example, I use a child...
Notes to self

Notes to self

Some great places to learn Divi and get help: (list to be updated regularly, I hope) Elegant Themes Blog - the...

 

iBooks, Kindle, ePubs, oh my!

It seems that there is an iPad in my future. I own a Kindle. I'm looking into publishing some materials from some of our websites for these formats. So, here goes my research! Learn about the formats: Start with Wikipedia information: A Comparison of E-Book Formats...

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Twitter and such

I'm doing battle with TwitterTools -- on one site I cannot get the blog posts to tweet. So, here I sit trying to get it to work on a different site to see what might be wrong. I'm not sure I need all this connectedness, but some folks are really into this stuff, so...

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Creating Custom Write Panels in WordPress

For a project we hope to get, I have been researching extending Wordpress. With Wordpress 3 at Release Candidate 1 status, the new features included will be helpful... custom menus, custom post types, etc. So, I found this great tutorial on creating custom write...

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iChatAV: we have it working

iChatAV: we have it working

I've recently entered the world of "video chat" - and while I never thought I'd be interested, it's been really rather nice. It started with my new iMac (20", with the built in camera). Then my friend Freda was ready to get a new computer, and decided to go Mac. And...

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ScriptyGoddess and Pixelog.org

I've been fascinated with pixelog.org - such a beautiful, elegant, simple and generally delightful site. I found this link on scriptygoddess . One of the things that drove me to WordPress was the fact that it was PHP based. It leaves the doors wide open for you to do...

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learning to do drop shadows – css style

So - I'm wandering around and came across an article on AListApart - cssdropshadows - and I thought I'd try it out. I really find this rather fun and interesting... and it works on different sized images without having to create the shadows in Photoshop or Fireworks.

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