I just noticed the time on my post last night was not adjusted for stupid daylight savings time. It was not 12:15 am, it was 11:15 pm. I’ve just changed our settings to reflect this. Obviously, WordPress agrees with me in that daylight savings is nothing but a useless annoyance.
Updates from December, 2009
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blog business
Emilily
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picture template
Emilily
So here’s another picture template I made! It is a lot less complicated than the last one, but I think will still work for short projects, and also is a nice way to post three images and a little type. Plus, it can be vertical or horizontal!Just to see how it looked online, I’ve posted my last three pictures from New Orleans. This is the Mississippi River from Jackson Square. I am not sure what that is across the water, probably just more Louisiana?
I am not sure if you can tell, but along the bottom of the template I drew some graph paper. I might have to make it larger or darker for it to really show up…I guess if you just wanted to show three images, you could use the template at full size (this is medium size) and then the graph paper would show. It occurred to me that with the orange type in the banner, the graph paper, and the clean orderly arrangements of everything in P2, we have a sort of Rhodia notebook theme going on!
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Emilily
Heh heh. Our tag cloud says BREAKFAST bunnies
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the great legitimizer
Emilily
Let me warn you now…this might get long. But I promise it will eventually come back around and explain the title.
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It's here!
Emilily
The embosser has arrived! I tried it on the thinner card stock, and it worked really well.
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Final banner!
Emilily
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One more version
Emilily
I wanted to work on this one a little more before I move on to another approach. What do you think? I am going for something cleaner now, trying to match our theme/style/aesthetic a little better.
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Haiku for help
Emilily
Carmen, do you have a scanner? Having problems with the banner. See:
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The Banner...in progress
Emilily
Here is where I am with our custom banner. (Ignore that weird blue tinge, I think I bumped up the contrast without paying attention to the entire right side of the image. In the final version, you will not be riding into a blue haze, and the lines will be darker and easier to see.)
So here is the banner so far. I do not know anything about CSS, but my hope is that it is like a template, and there will be some sort of placeholder for our banner, so that, once the style sheet is in place, either one of us will be able to update the banner picture when needed, as long as we keep the same dimensions. Maybe if you haven’t had your appointment with Max yet, you can add this to the agenda?
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Second test of the mini-project template
Emilily
Well, here’s the second round of the 3-step project template. I think the size of the overall image, and the font in the text boxes are both about right – would you agree? I’ll email it to you right now as a psd file. The layers are named things like “Type here” and “drop image here” so hopefully it is not too complicated? You can call me and we can go through it together. Once you use it the first time, it’s really easy to just drop pictures in, flatten it, and then upload it!
Now that I’m looking at it, if I fix it so you can delete the Step One, Step Two, etc captions in each text box, this would be a great way to present a simple recipe and three pictures, too.
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Emilily
Just a little note on the progress of the banner…do not google “girls on bikes.” Now I feel very very dirty.
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Links
Emilily
Okay, there are two ways to do it. One, edit the html and add the “target” code, in this case, open the link in a new window is Target equals “_blank”. I used this method on the link from yesterday’s post to Garance’s blog, and it worked. I attempted to use it on the link I put to the Olay vs Creme de la Mer blog, and it did not work, because that link kept adding a rel equals “nofollow” tag, which I have no idea what that means, but I am guessing it has something to do with her particular blog settings forcing us to navigate away from our own page. Way to pee in our cornflakes, other blog lady.
The other way is probably easier. When you are posting, simply highlight the phrase you want to use as a link, and then the LINK button in the posting panel becomes active, and it brings up that dialogue box you mentioned, and then you can set the target to open in a new page, like this.
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Sunday Time
Emilily
So…are we going to plan a project for this Sunday?
I just discovered something new! Check out what the Add More Tag did to the long chat post we added yesterday! (These new discoveries may not be as exciting to you, since you’ve been doing this for awhile, but I am having fun learning how to blog!)
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New way to post!
Emilily
I copied the instant message content into Word, then did the find & Replace, and then posted it directly from Word, and it kept all the formatting! Awesome! All you do is, instead of Save As, you Publish. Pretty nifty feature.
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Template test
Emilily
So I made a simple photoshop template to use for three-step projects. Not sure how much we would use it, but the benefits are 1) easy to drop images into and add three brief steps, 2) consistent look and 3) we only have one image added to our media file rather than three, using less of our storage space and delaying the day when we have to buy an upgrade. I’m still testing the appearance of the template, so this is a work in progress.
This is the project template
Well, the first time it was too large, and now I think it is too small…have to find the optimum size, but my laptop battery is about to diiiieeeeee
To be continued…
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Emilily
Oh hello there, internet. Success: I can pick up someone’s wireless signal from our hotel (using the term ‘hotel’ loosely here….)
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Carmen
Ok, this meebo widget thing doesn’t work the way i want. I will take it off. Good try!
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The Blog Project: day 6
Emilily
Well, we’ve come a long way.
Categories
I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but I’ve been obsessively categorizing and re-categorizing, and I think I like where it is going – what about you? For our main categories, we have: MAKE (projects), SEE (movies, books, art, websites), TALK (general life stuff), EAT (yum yum) and WEAR (clothes, jeweltry, products, etc.) I chose those because they are 1) descriptive and 2) all the words have almost the same aesthetic weight – 3 to 4 letters, all caps – so their relative size as they appear in the Category Cloud is consistent. Within these categories, we have sub-categories, like within MAKE, we have categories for egg projects and sewing projects, and within the SEE category we have categories for art and movies. How does this work for you?I also added a category under MAKE for The Blog Project
Themes
I like this theme a lot, but I read that in order to have a custom banner, we had to use a CSS style sheet, and that was only compatible with certain themes, this not being one of them. Do you know anything about CSS? Perhaps Max does? I need to draw something for it first, but I was just wondering what we would do with it then. I also wonder if there is any way we could get our categories listed at the top, the way Kristopher Dukes does? It is a nice way to organize the site. -
Carmen
OK! I’m liking this theme! Emile, what do you think? We can add some of your cool drawings in the background with Max’s help.
This is a good way to spend a Saturday…
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RSS
Carmen
You should figure out how to get updates from an RSS feed so you’ll know when i have commented or something. Keep in mind this might not work for the purposes of talking to each other.
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Hello world!
Carmen
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