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Upgraded to MovableType 4.1

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admin
on May 20, 2008 12:09 AM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
Please forgive the previous theme gone.  I was getting hammered with comment spam and 1and1.com didn't have an ImageMagick perl solution for me so I ditched SCode and went with reCaptcha (http://joshcarter.com/software/recaptcha).  Looks and feels better anyways.

Now the whole system doesn't feel as hodge-podge with generic comment response forms.

I'll try and get the old theme and a new one up soon.  In the meantime, here is a direct link to the photo gallery: http://caseys.kcfilms.com/gallery2.

Displaying Random Image from G2 using PHP

By
Shawn
on July 9, 2007 9:12 AM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

There are only a couple of lines of code I've put in my main page's PHP to support a random image from G2's photo gallery:

<link rel="stylesheet" href=http://WEBSITE/gallery2/main.php?g2_controller=imageblock.ExternalCSS>
<?php
@readfile('http://WEBSITE/gallery2/main.php?
g2_view=imageblock.External&g2_blocks=randomImage&
g2_show=date|views');
?>

Of course, the link part goes in your <head> section and the readfile part goes in your <body> section somewhere...

Setting the stylesheet allows you to control the view from within G2's Image Block admin page.  Click on the Image Block link from G2's site admistration and it will give you an exact link to put into your own website based on your own G2 installation settings.  You can modify several parameters within the link as described on the admin page.

IE 6 Rendering Issues

By
Shawn
on July 1, 2007 7:26 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

What can I do to fix tearing in IE 6.0?  I haven't validated against Safari or IE 5.5, but Firefox renders my pages just fine.  I've validated the HTML and CSS and am happy with its results.  It's almost as though the line-height parameter is being randomized as it strips out portions of random lines throughout a div when scrolling up or down...  When I remove the background-color property, everything works fine which is why their is no background color in the homepage's content divs.

Here is a screenshot of it in action:

But then again, in this example, the bottom of the longer letters such as p, y, and g get their last pixels rendered. 

Update (7/1/07): Turns out it was a combination of line-height and background-color.  Using both caused the issue, so I removed the line-height setting from my <p> section and the background-color can stay without tearing.  Yay for IE6!

Website Bug

By
Shawn
on June 5, 2007 8:10 AM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Man, there is a bug in how the comments are displayed in IE.  Works fine in Firefox though... Crap!

Update (7/1/07): Finally fixed... It was an issue with missing an ending '>' in a div that Firefox was fixing up for me. Weird how the HTML validator didn't catch it. I'm downloading Safari now to make sure the website looks ok there too.

Website Redesigned

By
Shawn
on May 26, 2007 10:38 PM | | Comments (2) | TrackBacks (0)

Still using MovableType 3.2, but I've upgraded the design a bit while I've had a little extra time around the house.  We're now using MT-Notify which enables commenters to subscribe to an article so when people add comments, you're sent an email.  We're also using Gallery2 and have integrated a random image on the sidebar.  The Gamercards are on the sidebar too, they were too much of an eyesore prominently displayed in the header. I think it feels a lot cleaner.  I ultimately want to draw a banner image of the family instead of the picture of the four of us before Jax was born.

New Security Measures

By
Shawn
on May 8, 2007 7:37 AM | | Comments (1) | TrackBacks (0)

I've changed security on the blog to use the SCode MT Plugin.  Comments don't require email addresses anymore and are instantly added if you provide the appropriate CAPTCHA security code.  I couldn't get the GD libraries setup on my windows machine for testing, thankfully all required modules were already on my host's Linux server.  Hopefully that'll eliminate spam from the comments, but I also need to install CCode/TCode reduce trackback spam.  I might completely move over to CCode so that I can cross-platform develop more easily.

Windows Live Writer Test

By
Shawn
on March 26, 2007 9:09 AM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

I have been experimenting with new blogging clients and stumbled on Microsoft's Live Writer.  It's in beta right now, but it's free!  And it works with MovableType!  It even allows me to upload pictures to my FTP server seamlessly.  Blogjet was having issues with that...

Good Site for Creating a Decent Website

By
Shawn
on February 7, 2006 12:52 PM | | Comments (1) | TrackBacks (0)

HOWTO: Launch a New Blog The Easy Way | Performancing.com

New Look and Feel

By
Shawn
on February 6, 2006 11:16 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Just updated the site's look, hopefully the substance will catch up with the style. Karen and my entries are colored differently so you can quickly distinguish between them.

I still have three more things on my list before I will claim it's done:

  1. Update the header (maybe reuse the old head animation?)
  2. Embed photo gallery within the site's framework
  3. Maybe create a gallery based on Doug Bowman's famous templates

The last one might be a while until an app is created to interface a bit better with the templates and MT, mine is about 75% completed. Gallery is so much easier to update, although not as slick or pretty.

Website Up and Walking

By
Shawn
on August 25, 2005 10:36 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Well, I uploaded the website, tinkered with the MySql database a bit from 1and1.com and with relatively little pain migrated the site from my Windows test system to its Linux server.

Post some comments and let me know what you think. Later I'll incorporate some advanced features from stopdesign.com.

Here are some items that aren't done. Am I missing anything?

  • Random gallery image
  • Latest gallery links
  • Freshen up css
  • Make all pages look consistent (comment previews, etc.)
  • Incorporate gallery within this or use Stopdesign's
  • New logo
  • Figure out a solution for missing ImageMagick
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