Weblog - Part 2

New Category

By TheSupercargo

Today I created a new category and sub category: Artwiculation and RT Round-up. (You can see them the category bar below the banner at the top of the page.) Artwiculation will have at least three sub-categories in the end. I’m plannng to collect here all my Artwiculations for the Artwiculate word-game on Twitter as well as the occasional flights of fancy that produce what I’m calling ArtwicuTales; longer stories told in 140 character Twitter bites. Under RT Round-up you’ll find my round-up of the 20 or so tweets contributed to Artwiculate in a given day that I choose to retweet as @TSupercargo.

Today I’ve also discovered how to change the date of a post so I’ll be able to re-post many entries from the last couple of years with their correct initial date. (I was unable to transfer my blogs automatically from the previous version of my homepage to the WordPress database. Having to do it manually.)

I’ve also started to tag posts.

Lightbox plus

By TheSupercargo

Once again, with feeling. Another attempt to put Â a lightbox feature on my site.

Islands of ice formed around posts in the river.

Dock crane with gasometer behind, hazed by falling snow

The entrance to Gothenburg's Opera House

Contact Form 7

By TheSupercargo

In an attempt to do something constructive after struggling for two days with bloody picture plug-ins, I have followed the advice of my Word-press buddy Kristina and installed the Contact Form 7 plug-in. It resides for the moment on my Contact page. (See the link above the page banner.)

Nice when things work (and have very clear installation instructions).

And now I’ve splashed out $17 via PayPal for an instruction manual. (Here!)

Shutter unReloaded

By TheSupercargo

I tried to install a plug in called Shutter Reloaded. Supposed to give a customizable lightbox effect. Big disappointment.
You’re supposed to add rel=lightboxsomewhere – but where?
Now I’m testing jQuery Lightbox. Similarly you’re supposed to add rel="lightbox" to the picture somehow – but there’s no clue where this code is supposed to go. Have tried it in several places, without joy. Very frustrating.

Day 2
Seems I also have to add class=”shutter” somewhere as well. But for the life of me I can’t work out where.
I have tried and tried and I’m fed up with both these plug-ins
I thought plug-ins were supposed to make life easier!

Gravitar

By TheSupercargo

Now I have a Gravitar (Globally Recognized Avatar) and have set up the site to display other people’s Gravitars in association with their comments.

More about Gravitars and WordPress here:Â http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Gravatars

I also played around with the colours. The colours I’m using should all now be “Internet safe” (according to Photoshop). The Hex codes are

Navy blue #000066
Lightest blue #CCCCFF
Pastel yellow #FFFFCC
Pastel pink #FFCCCC
Grey #339999
Rust #996600
Darkest blue #000033

Iperbox added

By TheSupercargo

As an experiment, I’ve added a slide-show of recent photos from my Ipernity site to the right-hand sidebar. The width of the box appears to vary depending on the browser one uses. In Opera the box is pushed slightly out of alignment to the right. It looks perfectly OK in IE though. Need to test it in other browsers.

[Apr 7 - Tested in Firefox and Chrome - same problem.]

[Apr 10 - "fixed" by widening the right-hand column by 10 pixels.]

I’ve also cracked the problem of padding in my Scrimshaw page which I hopeÂ will bear fruit a little later in the week.

Happy Easter!

By TheSupercargo

The Odd Egg

Just to wish anyone looking in a Happy Easter!

~~Good grief! How is it possible that this image is so dreadful regardless of whether I upload a 300 dpi full size image or a 72 dpi 300×181 high quality jpeg.~~

OK – think I’ve solved that one. Note to self: Don’t use Opera Turbo!

Furthermore … Thanks to the tutorial videos provided by everymanmarketing at YouTube, especially this one, I now know how to change the colour of the titles of the blog posts.

Still struggling with the static pages though.

Developments

By TheSupercargo

Spent yesterday (betwixt and between other things) learning how to make static pages. Will continue with this today. Trying to see what I can make in Dreamweaver to import as code to static pages. The padding is a problem.

Still tweaking the front page and the header. ~~Puzzled that the header image now seems to be so pixilated. Original picture is not, nor was it displayed as such to begin with.~~ Solved!

At least I’ve worked out how to change the colour of the headers in the columns left and right. ~~Still can’t see how to do it in the main column though.~~

Progress of a sort

By TheSupercargo

This page is very much under re-construction. If you are looking for my photos try going here and if you want to follow me on Twitter, look here.

Spent a good part of today tweaking Atahualpa to make it reminiscent of my previous homepage. Added the favicon and SC seal and created an interim header image. ~~Still can’t make the headings in the columns to either side of this – or the titles – show the colours I want, but I keep hoping.~~ Quite pleased with what I’ve achieved so far.

New theme

By TheSupercargo

Today (April Fool’s Day, of course) I installed a new theme.Â I looked at several, but decided to go with Atahualpa as it’s the same one my friend KS is using, andÂ I figure she can help me over the worse teething troubles tillÂ I know what I’m doing.

Are you reading this Kristina!?

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