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Will you ditch Prada for Google Smart Glasses

whyyouarewhy — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:38:13 +0000

So.. You just spent $500.00 on a fancy pair of Prada glasses.. Do they take returns?

This week Google is showing off their next gigantic project, a pair of augmented reality glasses that connect with your whole Google experience: Project Glass.

Sick! – Watch this:

WordPress images no border trick

whyyouarewhy — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 03:04:33 +0000

Does your theme add a border or some other nasty thing around all the images you post? Here is the solution.. wrap all images in the div class below and drop the “custom image” css in your style sheet. Have fun

— post image here —

CSS insert:

/* Optional images with no borders */
.customImage img {
padding: 0px;
border: none;
-moz-border-radius: 0px;
-khtml-border-radius: 0px;
-webkit-border-radius: 0px;
border-radius: 0px;
}

Web designing techniques to make a living

whyyouarewhy — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 14:18:39 +0000

These days a lot has changed since 1996. I mean a LOT. You have WYSIWYG editors for web design, css and a plethora of CMS (content management systems) to choose from. Not like the old days where you had to manually manipulate hundreds of pages using HTML and notepad.

Here are the items I think you need in order to make money with website design:

1) Understanding of HTML markup – this is the basis. Knowing this is mandatory. It will allow you to “get by” in 75% of the web design situations.

2) CSS – important. Knowing CSS will allow your designs to be more fluid and smaller in file size. PLUS many themes, templates and more use CSS these days. So you should have a good feel for CSS and how it works.
Note: Learn how to use FIREBUG – this is a life saver. Youtube it..

3) Image manipulation – I think this is important. If you can combine awesome images with HTML/CSS – you are bound to impress people and potential clients. While I am not a professional with photoshop; I have spent so many years using it that I can create any type of image, layout, landing page, call to action set or more. This gives you a huge advantage.
Another positive is if you can create it; Photoshop can slice/dice for you. Learn it, you will not be sorry.

4) Javascript – this is rocking user interface design and user interaction. Like FLASH used to impress people; Jquery/HTML5 is killing it. You might NOT need to know how to write scripts from scratch; but should understand what is happening; how functions work and more. There are also many plug & play solutions out there and if the author provides documentations it will be simple to integrate.

5) PHP – AHH, php.. this is a scripting language which is the lifeblood of data oriented projects and CMS’s. It can do anything: manipulate data, talk to a database (mySQL), manage large data sets and more. If you can learn PHP – I say do it. Knowing this will make you money; period.

Last but not least.. network. Once you have a little bit of the skills needed to create web projects; let people know. Do some pro bono projects. Do whatever you can to build your portfolio of work. After all without a strong portfolio you do not have a future..Make business cards and tell everyone you meet what you offer.

I hope this helps you in your quest to become the best web designer possible.

Cannot login after WordPress move – Solution

whyyouarewhy — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 05:02:44 +0000

Go to your wp-config.php file and add this line after your DB/call details:

define(‘RELOCATE’, true);

Then navigate your browser to your wp-login.php and it should automatically update your settings to match where you’ve moved you site to and you should be able to login. After you’ve logged in, delete the above line from your wp-config.php file.

photo by: herzogbr

Edit your Excel dropdown list in 3 steps

whyyouarewhy — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:27:41 +0000

Need to change the number of cells in your list? (e.g. I have a list called ‘imsexy’ which has 4 items, I now need 7 items) you will find that you can’t simply select your list and amend it on the sheet, So:

1) go to your ‘Formulas’ tab

2) choose “Name Manager”

3) a pop up box will show what is available for editing. Your list should be in it. Select your list and edit the range.

Need to create a list in excel?

Shorten your wordpress Title in the template

whyyouarewhy — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 04:15:28 +0000

So you want to post the title somewhere in your theme and shorten it to a certain amount of characters.

post_title; echo substr($thetitle, 0, 26); ?>

Edit the 26 to whatever amount of characters you want

Gradient CSS Call To Action Examples

whyyouarewhy — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:38:12 +0000

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So lets disect the elemtents that you can edit:

padding:5px; // Controls the padding around the text
width: 300px; // Controls the width, adjust to your needs
float:left; // move it left, right or center
-webkit-border-radius: 1em; // This controls the rounded corners
-moz-border-radius: 1em; // This controls the rounded corners
-border-radius: 1em; // This controls the rounded corners
color: #fff; // This controls font color
border: solid 1px #06548d; // the border color
background: #06548d; // This controls the background color
background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, from(#5aadee), to(#06548d)); // This controls the gradient
background: moz-linear-gradient(top, #5aadee, #06548d); // This controls the gradient
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr=’#5aadee’, endColorstr=’#06548d’); // This controls the gradient

There are 3 options here to allow this to work properly accross multiple browsers. For example the rounded edges and the gradient. You will need to change all 3 of these options to ensure it will work for your application. The reason there are 3 is to ensure that the css is uniform accross the various browsers. Still there is no guarantee and your milage may vary. However by putting in 3 versions your changes are greater that it will be uniform since most browsers (IE) don’t seem to play well with others.

Here is a rounded button option. I changed the EM from .5em to 1em and this resulted in a heavy rounded edge

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Note: some wordpress themes will remove the right formating. So make sure you paste it into the HTML window and don’t edit it- ever again

Some more examples:

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CSS Call To Action Examples

whyyouarewhy — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:49:26 +0000

Red back ground with white text:
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This allows you to make a quick “CTA” Call to action box in red with white text. Things you can edit are:
Background color//
background-color: red;
Change this to any color you want OR Hex color in this format: #000000

Font color//
color: #fff;
Change this color to any color you want OR Hex color in this format: #000000

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Advanced users can edit all of the CSS properties.

width: 300px;
// You can edit the width to suit your needs

color: #333333;
// This is the FONT color; edit to work with your background color

float: left;
// This floats the whole CTA to the left or “right” if you do right

border: dotted;
// This controls the border; you can do dotted; solid, dash, double, groove and more (click to see)

border-width: 1px;
// Border width; control the thickness of the border

Here are some more examples for you.

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Solution WordPress Cannot Click Visual Editor

whyyouarewhy — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 03:03:38 +0000

So you cannot click the visual editor.. well you’re probably pissed off..

1) In the admin area – click on POSTS and edit a POST (where you would normally click between visual/HTML)

2) Inspect the ELEMENT with either Chrome or Firebug ( in chrome click console and look for errors)

3) search Google for errors and solutions.

In my case; I did the following:

1) Updated wordpress core – did nothing
2) added define(‘SCRIPT_DEBUG’, true); to wp-config (at the top)

this did the trick.

Hope this helps you.

Protected: tryme

whyyouarewhy — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 02:35:19 +0000