Tag Archives: life on the road
Updating the Look of the Blog
I haven’t finished the process, but you should see some visual changes in the look of my online journal. I finally took a few hours and did some much needed fixing, adding some bells and whistles and taking away others. I’ve changed the colors and improved the overall look a little. This is all part […]
Those Damn Curly Quotes
Just when I thought things were going great with the blog and my writing, I find out that my new installation of WordPerfect 12 (up from version 10) reset the “Smart Quotes” function back to ON. DAMN! For those who don’t know what this means, it means PAIN IN THE ASS! Smart Quotes is a […]
Hunting for HTML to Database Conversion Software
I’ve spent hours hunting all over the net for software that will convert my HMTL pages to something that will fit in a database. The reason? I want to convert my web site to PHP and mySQL and that requires taking my current pages and converting them to a form that can be read by […]
WordPress and Other Blog Details
I have recently added a small section to the left of the blog page that lists the last 15 blog entries. After much frustration trying to get Andreas Holstenson’s Related Posts Plugin or Table of Contents to work and not succeeding, I finally discovered MtDewVirus WordPress Plug-ins Most Recent Posts plug-in. It is very easy […]
Solving the WordPress Excerpt Problem – Sorta
The WordPress Blog Excerpt Problem (as I call it) came from the desire to have the first page of my blog, index.php, show only excerpts of the blogs instead of the default, the entire blog. I could easily change the number of blogs shown on the entry page through Options, but I couldn’t figure out […]
Setting Up the Blog
After quite a bit of research, I decided to give WordPress a try for handling our blog. For the most part, the “5 minute installation” worked great but there were a few minor glitches in the process. Almost immediately after posting the blog, but not any links from my web site pages, since I still […]
CSS Experiments – How They Were Done and More
CSS Experiments CSS Unleashed – Experiments with CSS Designs CSS Book Recommendations CSS Experiments Playing With CSS Blocks CSS Experiments with CSS Logo Designs CSS Experiments with Background Images and Backgrounds CSS Experiments with Lists, Menus, Tables of Content, and More CSS Experiments – Web Fonts and Embedded Fonts CSS Unleashed – Experiments with Quotations, […]
Traveling Smoke-Free
Smoking Banned on Beach The first city in California to ban smoking in bars and restaurants in 1991 has gone a step further. They have banned smoking on their one and a half mile city beach. Salana Beach, just north of San Diego, passed this new ordinance when local high school students came to them […]
A Lovely Photo Blog
For those like us into nature photography, check out this lovely, photographic photo blog, shutterbug. This particular link goes to a lovely photograph of a lady bug on purple flowers. You move through the favorite pages of photographs by clicking the small arrow along the right side of the photo’s box. The design is lovely […]
Step-By-Step Website Development
Today’s businesses require letterhead and envelopes, business cards, ads in the Yellow Pages, and web pages as part of their business stationary. Even if you have the smallest of businesses with a limited clientèle, a website is part of your professional arsenal to attract and keep clients. People new to the Internet or web pages […]
Step-By-Step Website Development – Check List
The following is a simplified checklist for the development and design of a Website ($ indicates potential additional fees): Development Gathering of information related to site content Website Name (Domain Name) Research Competition Researched Website Title Chosen Website Host Research Website Host Chosen and Registered $ Website Name Chosen Website Name Purchase $ Website Structure […]
Website Development and Design Form Instructions
Web Site Development Web Site Development Introduction Web Site Development Checklist Site Development Form Explanation and Instructions Web Site Development Form Web Site Structure Chart The process of beginning or redesigning a web site begins with a step-by-step process of gathering information about your web site content, information, links, format, and structure. To follow is […]
Website Development and Design Form
Complete the following questions to the best of your ability. The answers are not final and can be changed at any time during the process of developing and designing your Website. Company Information Company Name: Address/Location: Phone: Fax: Cell: Email: Owner Name: Phone: Email: Website Support: […]
Website Structure Chart
The following sets an initial structure for your website. Imagine your website like a tree with the main branch as your first page and the related pages as branches of that tree. Typical content is included (cross off if not applicable) to help organize your site’s structure. Main Page 1. Purpose 2. Product List 3. […]
Introduction to Website Development
Got to have a web page! Don’t you? Of course you do! Everyone must have one. Well, maybe not everyone, but if you are in business or have something worthwhile to contribute to the world as a whole, then you should join those among the 4.3 billion web pages online…give or take a few. Whether […]