Archive | November, 2005

24 November 2005 ~ 2 Comments

Redesigning this site

I’m currently redesigning the site. To be honest it is more like a rejig and tidy rather than a redesign. One big design change is reverting to a single content column rather than separate photo and blog columns. If you would like to have a look at it as a work in progress you can [...]

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23 November 2005 ~ 2 Comments

Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon

I bought a copy of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon. I visited the ATC close to where Rie works and came across a shop that sold amongst other things, second-hand 8-track carts. I can *just* remember when they were in fashion. I think my dad used a car unit in our restaurant but [...]

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19 November 2005 ~ 2 Comments

Qdig-WP (pretty darn close)

I’ve been playing about with Qdig-WP and it is pretty darn close to what I have been looking for. I’m currently working on a redesign to this site and will switch over to Qdig-WP for the galleries. The integration is seamless, the creation of new galleries/albums effortless and it’s pretty fast too. I’ve set-up a [...]

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18 November 2005 ~ 0 Comments

Joelle Bacic’s Presentation at Design Matters

I attended my first Design Matters meeting on Tuesday. It was a presentation given by Joelle Bacic on using Garage Band 2 to put together songs. It was a great presentation as Joelle successfully pulled off the “show don’t tell” concept of teaching. I couldn’t put together a song if my life depended on it [...]

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17 November 2005 ~ 0 Comments

In search of a perfect photo gallery for WordPress (again)

When my site wasn’t a blog I had all my photos in a photo gallery script called Gallery. It is a mighty fine script but when I moved over to WordPress I wanted something that integrated well and could survive design changes. Gallery unfortunately uses a stack of tables to do its layout so would [...]

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