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While my favourite G5 was out of action due to graphics card problems, I continued working away on my back-up machine. I’d hardly used the second machine since new – and hadn’t changed the System Preferences for ‘Font Smoothing Style’ – but I was surprised at just how different the text looked.
To show the kind of differences I mean, I’ve taken some screen grabs of some text to demonstrate the kind of changes you might expect to see with different font smoothing styles applied.
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Has anyone else spent ages staring at a spinning ‘LOADING’ image? Watching the little guy spinning away – then realising the connection has hung and the upload (or download) stopped hours ago. It’s amazing how a little bit of movement can imply all sorts of activity, which may (or may not) actually be happening.
I’ve been playing around with wordles and made a wordle based on my blog today. read more »
A few weeks ago I started to notice something was amiss with my trusty G5 Mac – just the occasional flicker on the Desktop which soon passed, and I thought no more of it. A few days later I began to see tiny tiny corruptions, mainly around the edges of my browser windows – just a wee bit of speckling there in the drop shadows… read more »
OK, here’s the background. Damien Mulley has set a challenge to get your site listed in first place on Google.ie for the search term ‘geansai gorm’ (which means ‘blue jumper’).
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Well, OK. That’s not strictly true.
For starters, the BBC Election Night programme in 2006 didn’t use REAL holograms. But then neither did the recent CNN election special.
For the secrets behind the CNN programme you should visit the VizRT website where it explains the process of using 35 HD cameras and a bunch of Viz boxes to place a real person into a real studio with a fuzzy border around them. read more »
As promised – here’s a quick rundown of how I tweaked the default WordPress theme to match my own website. Pretty much everything was achieved by editing either the style.css or header.php files.
The changes to the basic proportions of the page were made by increasing the #page and #footer divs from 760 to 900pixels and adjusting the right sidebar content to be 250px wide (to match my own ‘content_sub’ div) and expanding the rest of the content to fill the gap. read more »
The week before last I went on a ‘Blogging For Business’ course held at the Leitrim County Enterprise Board in Carrick-on-Shannon. It was a one-day course, but a lot of useful info was crammed in – WordPress, RSS feeds etc – I’d recommend it to anyone who maybe is just starting out setting up their own business website, or is looking for new ways to drive traffic to an existing site – probably not so useful if you’ve been running your own blog successfully for while – but ideal for beginners.
I’ve have made a few tweaks to the default WordPress theme – and well, it’s nearly there – as (hopefully) you can see from this page. I haven’t checked the layout integrity in many different browsers, and I expect there will be some strange things happening on sub-pages to this blog (for example – if any comments come in). And I’m also not sure what will happen if I start adding or editing widgets – but hey, it was my first effort and I think it has matched up with my main site design pretty well. There’s still plenty still to do – fiddle with the look of some of the links (particularly RSS related bits) and I haven’t really set up the sidebar yet. read more »
2 CommentsOK, in order to work out how WordPress sites are put together, I’m going to have to put on my Graphic Design Geek hat. (Yes I have one of those. It’s a black beret, by the way.)
I’m intending to blog about the changes I’m making as I go along. read more »