so i’ve FINALLY updated the gorirra site… it wasn’t just a small cosmetic change neither… it’s a whole upgrade to the wordpress cms.
i’m really happy with the way it turned out — it’s simple and modern <toot toot>
i’m kinda glad i didn’t go with my initial mockup:
wise decision...
on the topic of “figuring things out wrt coding” — i was working on converting a site to wordpress and was trying to figure out how to get a home page movie to appear ONLY on the home page (easily).
so i looked around and found out there was a wordpress function called “is_front_page()”
so, along with a nifty fade in/fade out script, i created this in the header.php file:
<?php
if ( is_front_page() ) {
echo "
<div class=\"hpmovie\">
<div id=\"xlide\">
<img src=\"wp-content/themes/[THEMENAME]/images/5.jpg\"
alt=\"\" />
<img src=\"wp-content/themes/[THEMENAME]/images/11.jpg\"
alt=\"\" />
...
</div>
</div>
";
}
?>
so basically, if it’s the home page, it’ll write stuff to the page… boom
new site theme is up and running!
i’m sure i forgot something so if you see any errors… lemme know (my qc guy is in town, but i’m excited to roll out with this)
not like you care, but this is hugely different than the previous theme i had (white with the red line at the top)… this one has a bit more color in it and a few more elements that i’ve picked up recently
to start, the main logo is a transparent png with a rollover AND it degrades nicely if you’re using a shitty browser like ie6…
tranny ping (not some gay dood in china)
so it’s one image, and the css switches the image when you roll over it… this method is pretty cool and super easy to pull off. the end result is clean and it loads quick!
then there’s the overall color scheme… i wish i was better at color theory, but i’m not. so i gotta do research on colourlovers for inspiration. i knew i wanted a “web 2.0″ (ugh) color scheme and i think i did it…
another thing that’s cool is the footer — i knew i wanted to do a design with a 3 column footer… i’ve seen kids these days doing it so i wanted to join that crew… i moved the archive list down here, put a short little bio (that’s a first for me), put the social networking sites, and re-added my signature in the copyright
i really like logos… especially when they’re sharp… thanks to the interwebs, i was able to find a set of illustrator vectors of the social networking site logos. so i was able to resize them down without losing quality… i used the rollover styling here as well
tranny gif this time...
and to celebrate, i’ll throw in a song… it’s actually a song i just learned on guitar — it’s SUPER simple even andy could prolly play it
it’s jason mraz’s “anything you want” off his live cd – “beautiful mess: live on earth” (hulu)
So I got this new app for my phone made by wordpress — specifically to create posts on my blackberry.
I don’t know if I’ll use it a bunch or anything but it’s pretty cool that the wp folks are looking out for non-iPhoners
So this is just a small test to see what it’s like…
If you want the app and you have a bberry, go here: http://blackberry.wordpress.org/
new wordpress theme for your collective asses…
lemme know what you think — and more importantly, if anything’s broken…
as i write the title of this tutorial, i can tell it might get long and/or complicated… i’ll try my best… here we go
FIRST, you’ll need the tools — download virtual pc (especially if you run windows vista) and then grab an image here — i would suggest getting the IE6 image, since that version of IE is the “worst” of them all
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i feel that i should add a few notes as an addendum to my previous post — call it the “companion pack,” if you will
hot on the heels of my first tutorial, i come back at ya with a new one.
i REALLY like using wordpress as a cms — not only for its ease of customization or its extensive library of useful (mostly) plugins, but for these two huge reasons:
so i guess that answers the “why use wordpress?” question — here’s my method of getting a custom theme setup for wordpress
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so chaunce asked if i could do a small tutorial for a wordpress (wp) question he had… i’m honored that he asked me to do so… actually, i think i might start to write a bunch of tutorials that i’ve learned along the way…
and here… we… go…
this tutorial deals with the user wanting a site with a blog and pages, but the user wants a specific page to be the front page, not the blog (something similar to andy’s site, but not — since he doesn’t want his site to be full-on wordpress)
*note, i suck at technical writing, but i’ll try to fake it… i’m open to suggestions/comments for future tutorials
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“wtf, joe?”
yea i know… the site’s been collecting a bit of dust, which normally means that i’ve been busy with projects or i’m lazy (or both)
so what’s been up?
is that it? i think so… everything’s been pretty much status quo…
ahh… so here’s something — chaunce, andy, and i were talking about clever ways to hide particular files on one’s computer… i’m sure you all have clever ideas, so post it out… you can be “anonymous” if you want (tho i’ll know who you are, you dirty bastard)
i know mark has a folder on his desktop that says, “mark’s 2008 tax stuff” — very clever, mark… very clever.
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jason mraz’s “anything you want”