NextGen Gallery Slideshow

Posted on March 21, 2009 by Tom Long

In the first post of this series, I talked about my decision-making with regard to how to format my blog. Generally, each post has a left-justified thumbnail with a graphic element. The primary elements include an external image, a video, or a slideshow of photos that integrated into a NextGen Gallery on my blog. Typically I create a box (division), using HTML which allows me to control that the contents be left justified on the page, the size of the graphic, and justification of text within the box. This slideshow illustrates a box Continue reading →

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Video Thumbnails in Your Blog

Posted on March 20, 2009 by Tom Long

Today you have the opportunity to participate in my first ever ONLINE POLL! Check out the various ways of showing video on a WordPress blog and vote for your favorite. (To put this in context, you might want to read my post from a couple of days ago, Working out my blog format)

YouTube in Division Floated Left without a border

Centered Caption

The most challenging formatting comes with floating a video thumbnail to the left and allowing text to wrap down the right side.  The embed code one gets from the video host (YouTube for the example on the left) does not allow for such formatting.  If there is a slicker way to handle this, please let me know in the comments.

What I did was create a division within Continue reading →

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Use a Gallery2 Photo to Lead Your Blog

Posted on March 19, 2009 by Tom Long

As mentioned yesterday, my primary layout is a 180px wide photo on the left which may or may not have a link to an album.   This is an example of that layout.   Use the ‘add an image’ button, then ‘from URL’, to be able to add a hyperlink. In this case the hyperlink is back to the image.  Continue reading →

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Working out my blog format

Posted on March 17, 2009 by Tom Long

Oops.  Time has gotten away from me as I focused on my other blog (and my job).  Sorry.

Today’s post is intended for my fellow WordPress bloggers.  I hope I can save them the time, sweat, and tears (okay, for me it was fun) of figuring this out on their own.

Media can be presented in a number of ways in one’s blog.  A single picture, an album (array) of pictures, a slideshow, a video, or a soundtrack.  It quickly becomes more complex when one considers that there are a number of means of hosting and displaying the media.  For example, the source picture could be from your own collection on your computer, a Picasa web album, a Flickr set, someone else’s web Continue reading →

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Itty-Bytey

Posted on February 16, 2009 by Tom Long

Eee PC 901 8.9-inch NetbookMy wife’s new Pearl White ASUS Eee PC 901 8.9-Inch Netbook (1.6 GHz Intel Atom N270 Processor, 1 GB RAM, 12 GB Solid State Drive, XP Home, 6 Cell Battery) gives a whole new meaning to the phrase “small laptop.” This netbook will fit in many purses.

By definition a netbook has no optical drive (CD or DVD). In addition, the 901 has no hard drive. Instead, it has two flash drives. On the 4 GB C drive the programs reside. Oddly, it was configured with the default file storage also on C. I changed this to the D drive because some programs wined about not having enough disk space Continue reading →

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