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A New Cleaner Design to Display Extra Large Photos

September 1, 2008 – 1:27 pm

One of the things I probably dis-like the most about blogs is having to clean house, but, this weekend I went through the tedious process of implementing a new design, updating all the categories for each post, and changing some previous posts to display the full size images this design will accommodate.  I really think that much of the details in photography is lost in viewing small images, so, for those still on dial-up, I apologize now.  From this point forward I will be displaying my images on up to 900px wide in some cases, like the image below of Lake City lake in Colorado (although I will try to keep the file size as small as possible).

Lake City Overlook

The image above was taken in August of 2005 in Lake City Colorado.  There is an overlook on the forest road where you can stop and hike up the side of the mountain. Image data: Camera, Nikon D2X, ISO-100, Focal length 35mm @ f/16

I have never used a design without a sidebar but I like the clean look for photography purposes.  All the most recent and popular posts are now located in the footer section and the comments are inline so you can view and leave comments without having to enter the entire original post.  If you have any comments or suggestions I would love to hear them below.  Coming up I will post some images on Auburn’s first football game of the season against Louisiana Monroe.  Happy Labor Day to everyone.

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Learning Some New Code, Stylesheets, Themes and Design

June 1, 2008 – 4:42 pm

I neglected by blog posts this weekend and instead opted for a new design, look, or fell, or whatever. I was trying to consolidate some older pages, and make it a little easier to get around the information I have posted already.  I am still putting the finishing touches on some of the graphics but you get the idea now. I would love to hear what you think about the new design, what can be improved or changed. This is a busy week coming up, our new study over at the Damascus blog is starting in Romans and will be posted on Tuesday.

Learning to Use a Stylesheet and PHP

Over time I have had to learn how to use a CSS or Stylesheet and some basic PHP.  As I have leaned more and more code I have found a bit of freedom to be able to change and adjust things to be exactly the way I want them to be, and in the process be able to mess things up as well.  I would really recommend learning as much code as you possibly can, over time, it will be invalueble to you since everything runs on code.

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The Weekend is Here, Time to Get Ready for a Little Polka

May 17, 2008 – 5:35 am

This seems like it was a very long week, but the weekend is here. I was able to get quite a bit of work done this past week and next week will be an extremely busy week with the National Polka Festival in Texas. This past few days, in my spare time, I have been trying to work on developing a blog for the worship leader of our church. Each step seems to be a slow process to me, but progress is being made. I discovered this week that I have never really been able to combine my three favorite passions, faith, music, and photography, into the same place at the same time.

This gave me the chance to do that. Wednesday I was able to do some photography at the church while the band practiced, it was great. I have started to get a few graphics for the site uploaded, and one working banner so far. I love doing this kind of work and if I could work with images, music, and matters of faith all day I probably would. Still work to be done over there but I like the way it is coming around. I have nothing to do with the content at all, so pay Brian a visit and leave a few comments over there.

The Rest of the Weekend

The rest of my weekend is probably going to consist of yard work, but maybe I will be able to get some blogging of my own accomplished. I had to revert back to my old theme after going through, what was to me, some terribly written wordpress code. Still not totally happy with this theme but I have no time to mess with it now.

Hope everyone’s weekend is an enjoyable one.

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Cardiovascular Walking Continues and a New Theme

May 12, 2008 – 7:29 pm

Theme ChangeToday was one of those days where you get a lot done, but not necessarily in the places you intended when you got up. I started off as I normally do checking my email and rss reader and came across an email that I meant to look at regarding a new theme.

Of course, it was something I had been looking for, for a while now. Something that could showcase a few photographs and a little more graphic based than the other one. So, I stared coding the customizations to the new theme and once you get into the code, then you see how long it will take. This one was not the easiest code to customize, but it works for now. So, I hope you like the new theme across all my blogs. Comments are welcome.

I did manage to get in a little guitar practice and some walking. Not my full 4 miles, but I did get some walking in today. Deborah received her Birthday present from my mom today, a beautiful new double budding rose (red) and some planting dirt. Her birthday is Wednesday but it needed sunlight.  Last on the list today is to watch Dancing With the Stars tonight. If you don’t watch this particular show, it is one of the only shows we actually watch on national TV, but Deborah is quite the dancer and we do enjoy watching the competition.

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Purchased Revolution Wordpress Theme, We Will See I Guess

April 21, 2008 – 8:00 pm

Revolution Wordpress ThemeToday started off productive and early with work on my editor blog and a few images. I am almost finished now copying all my images over to my new HDD and I can’t wait until the last disc is copied tomorrow. I think I have now copied about 300-400 GB’s of images over form disc. Interesting that these discs are about 5-6 years old now and have already started having error issues, which I will post about on my business blog once I am finished.

The majority of the morning was spent getting all our eBay, Amazon, and various miscellaneous orders together for tomorrow. Tomorrow will be a long day with many stops to make and first on the list is to get the orders out.

What’s in a Theme, Revolution

I spent some of the afternoon completely updating all of my blogs to a new theme by Brian Gardner. It wasn’t really a new one, but an update to a set of themes he uses called Revolution. You can read more about it in his post, A Revolutionary Free Blog Theme, but he some other great themes as well. I was finally able to integrate all my 5 main blogs into one design and I think it is much cleaner and work well. In fact, it worked so well I couldn’t tell the difference between my business blog and all the others so I have the title of each at the top left corner of each individual blog.

Nature in View

I was able to get in a very quick walk today and saw the normal hawk flying overhead. We did have a new visitor to our feeder today, a Rose-breasted Grosbeak. My book said they were pretty rare down here (or up here for them), but we are in their habitat area. Have never seen one before, a very pretty bird.

rose-breasted grosbeak

We have had some crazy humming birds this year too, but they are usual visitors and they almost seem like pets the way they fight over the feeder.

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Changing and Improving Your Blog Sometimes Means a New Theme

September 17, 2007 – 3:25 pm

New SEO Wordpress ThemeWell, as I usually do, I have moved on to another theme (called fallseason) that I think better fits my blog and content. Although a majority of my posts are related to ham radio I do have many other interests like photography and small business, and I wanted to move to a design that was a little cleaner and one that I could customize a with different topics over time.

I also wanted to have a design that was a little more Firefox friendly since that is the browser many bloggers use (including me). Much of my research for online stores or resource utilization comes from many different SEO sources like some of those from SEObook, Blogoscoped, and several more . To have your site seen by others you not only need good content, links, updates, design, but you also need to employ good SEO techniques and I will post some of my findings here if I find them to be of interest to my readers (of course theoretically that should be anyone who is interested in promoting their website).

In the mean time, I hope you like the new layout. If you have any comments please post them below.

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Moving On to a Wordpress Blog and SQL Database

March 6, 2007 – 3:42 pm

In an effort to keep up with the cyber times, I have moved on to Wordpress and big time (for me) blogging. You can visit this and all my other blogs at: Island Zephyr

Click on the DK link for my blogs, or the Scott link for his. Be sure to leave an observation if you have one. Thanks for visiting, see you there…

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