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New Decade, New Site
Are websites ever really done? I kept wanting to do all these really cool things and do interlocks and searchable and … well you get the idea. One of the big things I wanted to do was to update the look of the CSS I was using, instead of the old monochromatic pages, I wanted to do something more impressive. My desire to learn CSS was brutally prioritized behind sleeping and other things, so I decided to look at WordPress Themes. I found one I really like and that as I started using became almost a Content Management System (CMS). So after some testing, I decided to go with Suffusion WordPress theme by Sayontan Sinha. I even bought him a “cup of coffee” as he requested as it has been a way cool tool.
I am going to continue to make changes over time but figure at some point I just have to get started.
Thanks for stopping by.
Integrated Blog & CMS
Previously my Blog was hosted on the same domain, but I had static HTML pages and then the blog. While this had some cool features, it also meant that if I wanted to make formatting changes I would have to redo it in to places and hope it all worked okay. So instead I am using the Word Press Blog Engine as a CMS solution, it has worked very well so far. I am sure that I will still need to do some small adjustments, but I think that so far it has worked very well. I can even create HTML code in Dreamweaver if I want to do really custom stuff and then place it into a page.
New Navigation
I had been using templates and classes and variables to do all sorts of little formatting tricks to get the navigation to work. By the time I was done looking at Suffusion, I decided that it would allow me to do it all within it much faster and easier. It also allowed the search functions to work much better so that one search engine would search the “pages” and the “blog”
Images hosted via SmugMug
As my faithful reader knows I have been doing more and more photography I upgraded my SmugMug site to a Pro Level. There were quite a few reasons, but the biggest one is that I can place watermarks on my images if I want to as well as right click protect them if I want to make it harder to “borrow” the photos without my knowledge. It has been much more helpful than I expected; after the first week I have two contacts asking about the pictures. Go over and take a look at SmugMug.com. There is a pretty cool 14 day trail program nad you can save $5 on a SmugMug subscription. It’s simple: use my email address or my personal coupon ( D5I4bmVRNHNpU ) in the ‘Referred by’ field on the signup form.
Pared out some older stuff
Dang was there some stale stuff on the site, so I am taking it down. If there is something you were looking for, let me know I archived it all. With using WordPress as a CMS solution this should be less of a challenge.