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Blockbuster vs. Netflix

Published on January 1, 2008 in Articles and Internet. 0 Comments

This is a comparison of Blockbuster and Netflix online/mail DVD rental service with Japanese Anime as the focus.

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Installed New K2 template for Wordpress!

Published on December 27, 2007 in Internet and Website. 0 Comments

I’m currently using Release Candidate 3, the newest K2 release.

This template has almost everything that I had to edit from the default Wordpress theme (Kubrick) and then some!

With K2, I’m able to upload a banner image via GUI instead of modify code and disable functions.

K2 also has tabs! I’ve been researching adding tabs for my site for months, even built a template with the basis for tabs! These tabs are perfect for what I need and after a little modification (rounding the corners), I’ll be set.

This is how you use Tabs with Wordpress!

I’ve noticed a bug where RSS entries bleed to the content if the entry title does not have any spaces and such-as-this-type-of-entry or is a file name without spaces. K2 does not cut title off after X amount width or characters.

Also, I did not like the gap at the top of the banner, it was part of the page which made it which. It should be gray with a border or not exist in the first place, obviously I chose the latter.

To eliminate the gap, modify your style sheet like so:

#page {
…
margin: 0 auto;
padding: 0px 0 10px;
position: relative;
…
}

 UPDATE:

K2, for some reason, ‘disables’ borders on images by overriding any border you put on an image with code in the style.css file.  Search for ‘img’ in the file and modify as needed:

/*img {
border: 0;
}*/


Xampp and WordPress

Published on November 3, 2007 in Computer, Internet and Website. 0 Comments

How to get Xampp and WordPress to work together so that you can modify local WP files and view the results locally.

http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/xampp/

***note*** you must have the WP folder in the the Xampp directory, I used a old WP folder I found with only two posts.

Wordpress(2.3) integration w/ Coppermine(1.44)

Published on October 16, 2007 in Computer and Internet. 0 Comments

It was not as easy as the other plug-ins but I did it, I can now browse my Coppermine database easily within Wordpress. I even installed a random image widget!

This is what to do:

Find “Coppermine Integration for Wordpress 2.3“– this is the modified version for WP 2.3…

Follow the instructions included with the .zip, THIS IS NOT A SIMPLE COPY-PASTE INTO PLUGINS FOLDER install!

The instructions are decent but lack one key part; Where to find the information to configure the plug-in. You’ll find it in the include/config.inc.php file of your Coppermine install.

Example:

EXAMPLES DISABLED, K2 DOES NOT WORK WITH COPPERMINE PLUGIN!

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Blog software comparison chart

Published on October 14, 2007 in Internet. 0 Comments

A very usful page if you are trying to decide which software to use for blogging.

http://www.ojr.org/ojr/images/blog_software_comparison.cfm 

Modify Default theme header image

Published on October 13, 2007 in Computer and Internet. 0 Comments

These are the files you must edit and the edits themselves if you want to resize your header to 150px and use an image instead of the text/gradient.

***note*** The white ‘page’ and curved borders are not css, they are a image. Open kubrickheader.jpg and you’ll see. I selected the blue, cleared it, then adjusted the selection to raise the bottom selection up about 2 px for a cleaner look for the border.

This is my new *150px* image:

changes I’ve made:

STYLE.CSS
#header {
background-color: #73a0c5;
margin: 0 0 0 1px;
padding: 0;
height: 150px;
width: 758px;
/* height: 200px;*/
}

#headerimg {
margin: 0;
height: 150px;
width: 100%;
}

HEADER.PHP

<?php wp_head(); ?>
</head>
<body>
<div id=”page”>

<div id=”header”>
<div id=”headerimg”>

</div>
</div>
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***I recommend Programmer’s Notepad for editing, free, fast, featureful, easy to use.   Yes, featureful is a word, just check the Bectionary