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New Sites & Site Relaunch!

I’ve been hard at work this past week doing way too many things at the same time, but somehow my perserverance and determination has allowed me to finish!

First off, I am proud to say that I have added another website to my long portfolio, this time for ALL SMOKED OUT Artist Wordsmith! His site was in dire need of a facelift and was ready for the next level, so I volunteered my skills to make him something more interactive and asthetically pleasing (without using Flash!).

CLICK HERE TO VISIT WORDSMITH’S NEW WEBSITE!

I have also been working on the complete redesign for One Fry Short Productions website. We had all gotten tired of the busted purple lightning scheme, so I started from scratch (except for the logo, of course) and did something from the ground up. I used a few new plugins this time and they have paid off pretty nicely.

CLICK HERE TO VISIT ONE FRY SHORT PRODUCTIONS NEW WEBSITE!

First off is the most noticable: the random header. If you didn’t notice, go to the site and hit the “Refresh” button on your browser about ten times. You will notice the header image swap out every time you revisit the page. Since I took almost 500 photos over the course of my road trip, I thought i’d put them to good use.

The plugin itself was fairly easy to install. You have to make sure that your “header” block in your theme file (both index & styles.css) is properly defined. You activate the plugin, upload some header images to your server, and then define them using the management tool built into the plugin from WordPress. It will automatically find your header block (again, if it’s defined properly) and replace it with the random header code. Pretty neat!

Also installed a Banner rotating software, and an “Event Calendar” that won’t show days that I posted, but rather days that have the “Event” category selected with changed timestamps. IE instead of just highlighting the date, when you click on it it will pull up an article about the event that is happening that day.

I have to say that the new Akismet spam blocker plugin included in WordPress v2.0 is amazing. I haven’t had spam on any of my sites since upgrading, and that is a severe cutdown from the hundred or so I was getting at the peak of the problem last year. If you haven’t upgraded your WordPress blog to 2.0, you’re missing out. The new visual rich editor is nice for newbies, but I’m too used to picking over my HTML than having a software write it for me automatically.

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Gymshoes 2 years ago 1 point
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Excellent job on both site designs! One thing I noticed though...both sites the content is aligned left...which looks unbalanced on high res screens like mine. You might want to consider centering the content.

Love the random image thing! You took so many great shots during the tour that you have a lot to choose from. :-) The look and feel the One Fry Short site is much better. Love it. :-)

I've (likewise) gotten tired of my own site design so I've spent the past couple of weeks redesigning and reorganizing my Gymshoes site. Everything except the homepage and the board have been moved into the WP database. I finished it up yesterday. Pop over and take a look. :-)

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Haggis 2 years ago 1 point
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Thanks for the compliments! I already knew about the left-alignment problem. Due to the exremely complicated way I designed the CSS, everything is absolute-positioned.. I designed both sites to be displayed at 1024x768, which is the widest used resolution. My screen res is at 1280x1024, but I rarely ever have my browser open full screen. (shrug)

And I saw your site yesterday, it looks great! I added your RSS feed to my SharpReader so I get notified when you update, I just haven't left a comment yet. :D

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Gymshoes 2 years ago 1 point
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Where did you get the random image plugin? I've played around with the Random Image theme, but it's limited to 10 images and is based on the Kubrick theme. How many images will this plugin handle? Will it work with any theme?

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Haggis 2 years ago 1 point
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I got it here:
http://www.martinet.nl/wp-site/random-header-plugin

I, too, played with the WP theme you were talking about. It was complicated to get working, but I did it. And the 10-image limit was a little annoying. This plugin allows many images, and you don't have to name the files anything special, just put them in a dir with the others.

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