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Author Archives: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen is one of the top bloggers in the world, and host of the Lorelle on WordPress, providing WordPress and blogging tips for bloggers of all levels. A popular keynote speaker and trainer, she is also editor, producer, contributor, and official disruptive thinker for Bitwire Media which includes WordCast, Making My Life Network, Stories of Our Journeys, Life on the Road, WordCast Conversations, and the very popular WordCast Podcast. She is also author of one of the first books on blogging, "Blogging Tips: What Bloggers Won't Tell You About Blogging" and the recently released ebook, Social Media for Crafters: Covering the Basics of the Social Web. Taking Your Camera on the Road, founded by Lorelle, is one of the oldest personal websites in continuous existence in the world.

List of CSS Found Within Which WordPress Files

In order to make any adjustments to the HTML of your new WordPress site and Theme, you have to find the references to the styles in the php code of each page section. In WordPress 1.2, this was easy because most of the information was found in the index.php page. With WordPress 1.5, everything is […]

Doing a Linda Blair in Exorcist Impression

Apologies to all for the long time in posting. I have tons to tell you about but right now, I’m working on my impression of Linda Blair in The Exorcist. My head hasn’t stopped spinning around in circles since arriving in Seattle just over a week ago. Five days spent “spending time” with my hyperactive […]

Tea With the Ladies Then Cleaning House in Seattle

I landed in Seattle late Saturday night after a full day spent in the church of Brent’s parents working on the quarterly Ladies Tea. The day before, I’d spent most of the morning slicing bread for the french toast casserole and cutting up piles of fruit and other things. Only nicked myself once when someone […]

Apologies to Non-Internet Explorer Users

After preaching for years about web standards and compliance, when setting up the CSS style sheet for my new online blog called “Journal Thoughts”, I skipped a few little details. So I apologize for those of you NOT using Microsoft Internet Explorer to view my site. In my attempts to force Internet Explorer to do […]

Preparing for Tea and Packing

After an insane yesterday spent back in the storage room and sorting through all the boxes again, going through and checking them all off the list and searching…well, I’m getting ahead of myself as usual. I woke up yesterday morning at five with a pounding heart and sinking gut. I just realized that there was […]

Views of a Web Page

Web pages aren’t viewed by everyone equally. We’ve taken one of our web pages and passed it through some tests to resize, reshape, mash, smash, shrink, expand, and mess with our design. If you are going to experiment with CSS, or even if you are just designing a simple Theme or web page layout, you […]

Unpacking and Repacking in Tulsa

The flight to Tulsa from Mobile was quiet and uneventful, except for a minor delay in Houston. It seems the airplane was leaking massive hydralic fluid from one of the brake lines so there was a 45 minute delay while they replaced the part. We arrived in Tulsa only 20 minutes behind schedule so they […]

Need Some New Recipes?

This is a charming site that features TONS of recipes including Meps and Barry’s Recipe for Crustless, No-Bake Pumpkin Pie. Wow! I’ll be spending some time here.

Photographing the Wind

The car door slammed, frustration evident not only in his body language but expression. "Trouble?" Brent deposited the camera into my lap and shook off his hat. "The damn wind." I looked outside at the field of wild daisies and sure enough, they were dancing around in the wind, white waves upon green stems. "You’re […]

Photographing and Exploring Jerusalem

Exploring the Old City of Jerusalem means going back through time. Not just back but down through the layers of time. A city conquered, crushed, rebuilt, conquered and crushed, then rebuilt again and again and again, visitors to Jerusalem relive the adventure by touring the many layers of history which remain. Many recent archeological discoveries […]

WordPress Theme Tweaks and Twitches

I’ve been poking at this WordPress Theme of mine for a few days and all the little nitpicky stuff is getting me down. There are a lot of major and minor things to clean up. And I’m totally not happy with how FireFox is handling my old layout. In fact, I’m disgusted with my old […]

Working on the CSS and WordPress Theme

With the move to WordPress v1.5, things are a little more challenging for creating a CSS file. As I mentioned, the header, footer, index page, and other elements are now divided up into pages which are “included” in the main index.page. A div or class will start in one template file and finish in another, […]

File Downloading – Avoiding the Bug and Viruses

Over 90% of all viruses today enter your computer through email. The odds of you getting a virus through email in the USA as of 2001 was 1 in 1200. Today, your file virus checking software probably caught at least two in the past month. Currently, you cannot get a virus by exploring on the […]

Installing WordPress 1.5 and Modifying It

Wouldn’t you know it. Here I am, working my buns off to learn how to use WordPress, importing massive old articles into the database, playing around with a test site, and I’m about ready to make it go public, and WordPress releases not only a new version, but a humdinger of a new version. It […]

Learning More About WordPress

I’ve been making a plan, and checking it twice, going to find out if I’m naughty or nice….you know the routine. The effort to convert my site from static HTML to interactive database, specifically into WordPress, has been extremely educational. In other words, I’m learning more than enough about things I wish I didn’t know. […]