Lazarus Graveyard

Well Ive found a couple of cool plug ins. Read more »

One other thing I need to understand with wordpress is how to use it to play mp3 files. Read more »

There are about a gazillion ways of doing this and there will be many more posts on the subject. But for now Im going to tell you how to do it the absolute easiest way – i.e. plug n play, minimal setup and maximum results. Read more »

Original Pixel theme background image

The theme ive been using (and still a using) is one I downloaded called ‘pixeled’ Its a great and tidy theme but its look is largely made up by the big background jpg image – very nice using lots of transparency and layers. So I replaced it with a Chinese Dragon type jpg of my own that I made in art rage 2 with my horrible cheap graphics tablet. It kinda broke all the web rules as there were no straight lines and its all a bit scratchy.. itwas  a pretty rough setch – but other cool looking WP sites use the same trick – the amazing webdesigner wall is basically a very plain template that is filled to the brim with beautiful background images. If you have the web developer add on for firefox go to webdesigner wall and choose images/hide images from the web designer toolbar to reveal that the actual theme has no real graphical design at all leaving the designer space to add all the cool stuff – if you are using firefox hold your mouse pointer over a background image, right click and choose ‘view background image’ to have a look at the jpeg/gif/png image on its own. Read more »

Working with text files or Dreamweaver on a static page site means you get to tweak, preview and amend your pages before uploading the finished article to the web. With dynamic sites and content management systems this can be a little trickier because they require more than just a browser to read and render the html/css code you’ve put together. Read more »

CSS stands for ‘Cascading Style Sheets’. Read more »

well it worked – the drop shadow around the image looked horrible against the template I’ve used for the site but I can understand that problem. Read more »

Well Im standing in the kitchen cooking jalfrezi and blogging in Word 2007 while listening to BBC 6 music (funk and soul show) streaming wirelessly over real player on my laptop and I cant help but think that modern technology is cool

We’ll see if this post goes into the right category of ‘web stuff’ – currently trying to figure out how to insert a ‘read more’ divider in this document – already one advantage Windows Live Writer has because its on the tool bar visible at all times. Read more »

The recent update to vista incorporated a ton of windows live stuff.. I’ve already learned that you shouldn’t install it on machines that are part of a domain as they run like dogs but I’ve been poking it with a stick on my home pcs and one of the tings that I’m vaguely interested in the is the windows live writer which promises me I should be able to blog to wordpress using it. I’ve just this second set it up – not particularly exciting or difficult process and not a fascinatingly exciting interface but I haven’t really delved yet. So I’m just going to hit the publish button and insert an image (a quick sketch made on my £30 trust graphics tablet from Morrisons and a copy of Art Rage 2) using Live Writer to add a drop shadow – as a test and see how I go… Read more »

Open an elevated command prompt (right click on it and choose ‘run as administrator’). At the prompt type; Read more »