If you use WordPress for maintaining your blog(s) you’d be logging into the admin console often, also known as the WordPress Dashboard. While its functional and has lots of related news I often find the page a little too busy and the heading fonts a bit too large! A small tweak to the wp-admin.css in your /wp-admin/ folder can make this a much more pleasant experience. Here’s how:
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Its far from complete but its good to see I have started to put my photos together… Adobe Lightroom does make the job half as simple with cataloguing and sifting good from bad ones but still putting up a gallery from thousands of photos is a mammoth task. I am glad the process has started and look forward to posting more as time goes by. Hope you enjoy seeing some of the things I enjoy doing most. Enjoy!
Pink for October is an annual initiative to get people to learn more about and create and spread awareness on breast cancer. Show your support by using badges or changing your site theme for a month. And if you do turn your site pink with a theme or button do inform the pinklist for october.
The ultimate goal of the National Breast Cancer Foundation (NBCF) is to raise enough money to fund a cure for breast cancer. As Australia’s leading national not-for profit organisation established to fund all forms of research into the prevention and cure of breast cancer, we have a responsibility to ensure that the funds you work so hard to raise are used in the best possible way as we move towards making our goal a reality.
Thanks for the reminder Russ.
A bit of a re-dev is on…. its 12:56am! Cold! Raining and the weekend seems far far away… How long will my patience last? Hmmm… on the other end wedding celebrations for James Packer and Erica Baxter are in progress in the French Riviera. Good to see thats not making the headlines in news.com.au. They often don’t have much to report other than Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan and the likes. Earlier in the day I remember watchting on TodayTonight about a quick excerpt when someone went around asking a few people in South of France if they knew who James Packer was? They all shrug their shoulder. Ouch, thats gotta hurt a bit.
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We all love transformation, and at Amarello Photography that’s what we do best. Our team of talented make-up artist, hairstylist, and photographer will assist you to be transformed to your wildest fantasies. Recreate a celebrity look, morph into a glamorous goddess, or just to look beautifully natural…
Nothing like living on the bleeding edge! I have yet again decided to do a live redesign of my site. Apologies if the presentation goes awry at times. And while that happens in the background… check out Amarello — my latest work. Grab the colour combination and vote for it if you like.
WordPress undoubtedly is one of the most loved Opensource personal Content Management Systems for running a site but like any software its not without its share of much needed improvements. I’m also aware that die hard WordPress enthusiasts are burning the midnight oil to take it to the next level of finesse at Shuttle which encompasses a whole range of changes in terms of user-interface, design, code. I am listing down a a few things that in my opinion could make WordPress go a step further, Feel free to add yours. Some of the points mentioned may have been discussed elsewhere.
The Home of the Mustangs, the lovely Maysville Elementary folks have had a rejig of their website. I had designed their site about two and a half years back. Though the design essentially remains the same I’ve added some functionality and removed parts of the website that had becomes obsolete. Not only does Maysville as an Elementary school stand out of the crowd, they are backed by people who are passionate, teachers who go beyond their call of duty, students and patrons that blog and podcast and their thirst for knowledge! Though my visit to North Carolina last month was only for one short week, it was the one that made me feel at home and in the company of lovely friends and warm hearted people.
When I had hand rolled my entire design for Karmakars.com, though simple sans flickr, del.icio.us and all those moronic buzz, it was nice and I was proud of it. I really was. No matter what one may think and how much ease a blog/website template or theme may provide, it is one sure way to kill originality. It lacks one big thing. It lacks you. Look around the web-o-sphere, notice how many people use K2 and Hemingway, and many such similar derivations of these themes. And nothing wrong with that, BUT this in my opinion probably isn’t the best choice for a professional web-designer, developer.
Thanks Russ for pointing this amazing tool out. coComment is a neat way of keeping abreast of comments in the blogosphere through RSS or even your browser. It captures shares and alerts as your comments grow in the blogosphere. You would be INFORMED when someone responds to your comments. You can SHARE YOUR COMMENTS on other’s blogs with your own readers? And keep all your comments without LOSING TRACK of your discussions. All in the one place! Neat!
Lisa, Congratulations!! I have been looking forward to redQueen, since the evening you told me!! The design is simple and very sauve! Great colours! Awesome job!
More Measuremap tease is underway. Bright red signifies active visitors (right Jeff?). The scary bit… I think I know who is visiting from Iceland and Peru. 
Okie for the rest of you do flick in a comment so I know you hate my blog Until the next tease!
UPDATE: My brut-forced blog that I wouldn’t have otherwise had.
Matt Mullenweg introduced Akismet just a few days back. It’s a comment-spam defense system for WordPress. Only a few days back I had installed dr Dave’s brilliant SpamKarma v2 which seems to work very well (thanks Ruth). So my question here is: Which of the 2 is better and why?
Thank you Jeff. I am totally delighted to have received this little surprise email just about five minutes back YAY! Since I’ve only just set it up it wouldn’t show much stats to start with. I am looking forward to have a play with it. The entire Measuremap user-interface is AJAX driven. Sweet as! Wow! And it loads very fast! I hope to have a few screensgrabs up for you here.
Live redesign of my site site is underway. To be honest with you this is partly Cameron’s fault Apparently he’d seen me playing around with K2 and noticed some changes I had made. Since reading his email yesterday I said to myself: Well it was ’bout time to take a headlong plunge. Few hours later here we are: Brace yourself for bad links, content falling out of boxes, image not found extra borders paddings funnies anything that doesn’t look right or is not legible! Change is always good. If you come back visiting with IE I’ll hit you with a nasty scraggy broomstick and if you wanna be a smartass and complaint and show-off your CSS prudence - watch out! I’d let off my German Rottweiler to get even!
What is Mint?
Mint is a concise, flexible, dripping with AJAX RSS and deliciously bundled wuth PHP, MySQL and referrer-spam-proof stats generator created by Shaun Inman. In other words Mint is ShortStat reborn. It keeps both current and historical data about each visit and presents it in a neatly organized fashion. And to say the least when I had problems getting it to work Shaun helped me troubleshoot. Thanks again Shaun. I’m a mint freak now
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