Tag Archives: web development
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, […]
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 […]
Test Driving WordPress
There is a lot to think about in preparation for putting WordPress on our site and ramming our site down its throat. The first thing I needed to do was set up a “test” area on my site to start working on all of this. If it is a complete failure, then I can delete […]
CSS Tips and Tricks
While we avoid a lot of whizbang tricks, we have used a few here and there. Most recently, we discovered some useful tricks when designing a “fancy” version of our web page layout. A major part of these we turned into our CSS Experiments. As nature photographers and instructors, Brent likes to teach the following […]
CSS – The Things You Need To Know
While there is a lot of information about code styles and design layouts out on the web and throughout our CSS experiments and examples, some of the smallest details can be difficult to find. One of the little bits I needed to know was about how to layout a style sheet. Where do the spaces […]
Understanding CSS Selectors and Attributes
Word Games – Understanding the CSS Jargon Understanding how CSS and HTML work together is not easy. The idea that it takes two pieces to fit together to make a web page display is a challenge. We’ve broken down the concept into simple terms and definitions, as well as simple examples to help you understand […]
CSS Tips and Tricks – Backgrounds and Transparencies
We’ve done a lot of different CSS experiments, pushing CSS to its limits with fun and jazzy text, filters, horizontal and vertical flipping, and more, and now it’s time to tackle some fun with more filters. Be sure and check out more of our CSS Experiments to help you expand your imagination with what is […]
CSS Tips and Tricks – Filters and Transforming Text
Flippin’ Filter Fun: flipv and fliph There are tons of filters you can have fun with with your CSS experiments. Remember, these only work on a few browsers, so test them out before putting them into use. Firefox and older browsers have trouble with these, though Microsoft Internet Explorer’s latest versions display these well. We […]
CSS Tips and Tricks – Jazzing Up the Content
We’ve show how to jazz up a web page’s content within a container or box. Now it is time to look at some tips and tricks for jazzing up the content. CSS Text Effects There are a variety of text characteristics you can also add to jazz up your text. First of all, you can […]
CSS Unleashed – Experiments with CSS Designs
99 THINGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW YOU COULD DO WITH CSS * *And How To Do Them Well! We decided to offer up some of our own experiments for you to learn more about CSS and for us to have a little fun, too. The following designs were completely created without tables, using only Cascading Style […]
CSS Unleashed – Variations on a Theme
We’ve been looking at a variety of CSS experimental examples, and now I’d like to take you through a design journey. These ideas come from magazines and advertising material, but they also come from a simple idea that is then played with to create different effects. Play with these effects and you have variations on […]