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Vote for WordPress 2.9 Media Features

Jess G. — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:14:58 +0000

Your opinion does matter! Get your 2¢ in on the media features for the next version of WordPress!

WordPress › Blog » Vote for 2.9 Media Features.

This is a very good idea, in my opinion. WordPress already has fairly strong media managment features but there is more than enough room for improvement. I also think that the idea of Media Albums and Post Thumbnails would be really awesome. It would greatly eliminate the need for complicated hacking, for one. Personally, I hope those two ideas make it into 2.9 as features. A lot of people, including myself, are using WordPress for more than just blogging—for instance, as portfolios—and having a feature like media albums that aren’t tied to a post or even post thumbnails, would really take out a good portion of production time.

Update! YES!

Jess G. — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 06:49:51 +0000

This has been extremely fun and extremely painful. I’ve been working on this layout on and off for the last three weeks. I think I put 12-16 hours of design and another 12-16 of coding into this new WordPress theme and I am just glad that I am done. Please note though: this layout is sooooooooooooooo not IE6 compatible… I’ve used quite a number of alpha-transparency PNGs in this layout and to be honest, I’m not in the mood for hacking my layouts to be IE 6 compatible. I actually stopped using hacks about a year ago when I designed the current theme for the Silent Shadow home page. I decided to stop using IE hacks after reading an article over at WebDesignerWall.com. Although I’ll confess that ways of making web pages backwards compatible with IE 6 is useful because you never know when you might have a client that will probably want their site to be compatible with IE 6. Even back when I was a humble hospital janitor at Hennepin County Medical Center in downtown Minneapolis, all of the computers there still used IE 6 and in rare cases, IE 5.

Now, enough rambling about CSS hacks. I’ve been busy updating the site, specifically my portfolio. I finally found a WordPress plugin that allows me to display videos so all of my motion graphics works are up, on the Motion Graphics page of the portfolio. Most of the stuff is close to two years old but I am in the process of reworking the Silent Shadow piece because the current one wasn’t really what I had imagined, even though it earned me an A for Broadcast Graphics two years ago now. Speaking of Motion Graphics, I probably should add a link to Motionographer.

What’s in store for the future? Well, I have a tutorial that I need to upload. I’ve already uploaded it at DeviantArt but I should probably either upload it or add a link to it here so people know about it. The tutorial in question was my “long awaited” (yes, that said sarcastically ^_~) tutorial on creating an AO catcher in Poser Pro. Another tutorial I have in the works documents a technique I used for creating an aged photo-look for a flyer that I designed for my Marketing Design class this quarter.

Well, I’m going to cut this short. Hopefully, the server won’t time out when I post this

New Site coming soon

Jess G. — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:49:34 +0000

I’ve been working on a re-design for Dumpster-fairy.com, namely to make it more professional than it is now. I’m working on the layout and new pages, though some of the coding is giving me a headache. The new site will still have tutorials and resources, but will feature newly added tutorials and resources on the front page. The new site will also have a portfolio—even though I already have a portfolio—this portfolio will also contain code samples of my web development work. Also, each tutorial will have a downloadable PDF version that will be hosted on my DeviantArt page, mainly to avoid gobbling up my bandwidth. Hopefully, in the next week or so, you should see the new site unveiled.