BlogVanity: January 2005 Archives

Help A Starving College Student - Me

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Well, I have held off for a long time but, in the words of the Borg resistance is futile. Since they are the least intrusive on your viewing experience, I have joined the ranks of many other people and added Google's text ads to my site. Please do not click through out of pity - really, I am not making this entry to start scam clicking or anything else. Seriously, if you do see an advertisement of interest, please do click through. Your help is appreciated. Signing off for the next 24 hours, adding my $0.02 worth to the protests for voter rights and protection of our personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution during the coronation ceremonies in Washington.

Blogtimes

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Installing a new plug-in... testing... more when it works (or doesn't)... Update: works super! It appears on the bottom of the page (scroll on down) and gives you a rough chronology of the time of day that I have posted over the past 30 days. Created simply by using the Blogtimes plug-in for WordPress.

Vanity Buttons

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Vain I AmWhile I should be working on another web site or better yet, reading some of the pile of textbooks I bought for classes this coming semester, I am instead being vain. Yes, I admit it. I was traveling through the support forums at WP and got off on a tangential surf and found yet another 80x15 button maker that has a nifty feature of enabling you to include a picture. I know it's tiny, but it is me. :-) (via WordPress Reference Center - other interesting things there - worth a trip!)

Fireworks!

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No, not pyrotechnics, but rather the graphics produced using Macromedia Fireworks. I feel that I have a major lack of artistic talent especially when it comes to colors and such. I have as one of my winter break goals to at least gain a comfort level building basic graphics. So, you will start to see the results of this exercise right here. First ones are the masthead and the menu top graphics. Comments, please. Just remember that I am just learning... Update: On a roll! Tinkering with the sidebar, too. I have to delve into the WP code to fix some of them. The challenge continues!