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The "O" Face!

Posted on March 14, 2010 by TimeSiren Posted in 'round the 'net, Creative Madness, Doctor Who, Humor, Pictures, Science Fiction Favorites, Want a Piece of Me?!?

The Master. Destroying stupid people that won't get in the groove...one planet at a time!

Haven’t you ever felt like breaking out and destroying the world ’cause it just won’t get with the program?!?


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Top 12 Stunning WordPress Themes

Posted on March 11, 2010 by TimeSiren Posted in 'round the 'net, Blogging Tips, Word Press Themes that'll knock their socks off

http://mashable.com/2008/09/19/top-wordpress-themes/

Beautiful and definitely NOT ordinary. Makes me want to sit down and do a Doctor Who WordPress theme, then maybe some Anime ones…that would be so cool!

~ article source – Mashable.com

My favorite WordPress theme so far is…

Posted on March 11, 2010 by TimeSiren Posted in Word Press Themes that'll knock their socks off 1 Comment

WordPress Theme - Sliding Door

Sliding Door by Wayne Connor, a Mac Host blogger whose theme has over 1,100 fans and supporters on his WordPress and Joomla Support Site forum. His explanation of how the theme works and how it can be customized is fairly straightforward if you have a basic knowledge of css. You don’t even need a full comprehension of .php to get it to work; you just have to follow the instructions, do a little digging on the forum when you get into trouble and you can customize it to your tastes. I fell in love with the potentiality of the design and used it for a local, Los Angeles business networking client, Referrals Unlimited, in Westlake Village, CA.

WARNING – TECHNICAL STUFF –

I customized the images at the top of the page by:

* Going into the header.php file and adding another line to the “links you go to when you click on a sliding door image section” in the header underneath the other categories. This starts around line 51 if you are using the 1.7.1 version of Sliding Doors…there is a new version, 1.8.7. It is easy to remember – add lines if you are adding additional image panes to the 7 default ones, subtract panes if you are wanting fewer.

* Also going in the imageMenu.css file in the imagemenu directory, add another (or subtract) a line(s) below where they start, also around line 51.

* In the same file, change line 40’s width dimension to accomodate additional or removed panes.

* To remove the default titles and change the default links to the windows to where you want them to point, go into the functions.php and add or remove a line to add or remove a pane.

The important part to remember is something not covered in as much detail in the forum’s FAQs, but in a question answered here. This is in the calculation of the width of the panes or “blades” as they are referred to in the discussion. The conversation goes something like this:

1. You remove (or add) one of the li lines in the header code in the div called image menu.

2. You adjust the openWidth parameter in the javascript just below that in the header.

3. You may also want to change the closed widths in the imagemenu.CSS file.

in the section that begins #imageMenu ul li a {
width:133px is the width of the picture when closed.

It’s in the section #imageMenu ul li a {
It’s width:133px;
This is the width of the picture when closed.

I guess it would be 133 times 7 divided by 6 (155px).”

It takes a little tweaking, but if you are used to that in .css and .php, you will knock it out pretty quickly. I wasn’t and it took me a while to get it right, but that’s because I was a newbie at tweaking php settings. Now that I have the notes and have worked with it, it doesn’t take me as long to do.

Thank you, Open Cart!

Posted on March 5, 2010 by TimeSiren Posted in 'round the 'net, Damn Technology!, Website Tech Tips - Knowledge for Knerds

You may notice that my jewelry & giftware website, EarthDaughter Arts, has been down for two weeks. That is because some asshat credit card scammers in Russia hacked it. My ISP shut the website down and I had to clean out the files and start over again.

I really want to nail those bastards in Russia.

But, will you hear me complain about having to clean out those files and reboot a website that has been up since 1992? No, not really. You see, I have been wanting to take down the website and clean it up and out, completely and utterly for a couple of months anyways. Yes it was a pain in the butt to have to drop everything and deal with this mess, but it was worth it and I was wanting to do it anyway.

Everything happens for a reason.

So…what does this have to do with Open Cart? Well, I had Zen Cart as my shopping cart for a few years now and it was difficult to manage for a number of reasons…the back-end being too complex, for one. So, in a pondry as to which shopping cart to go to next (heck, I wasn’t even looking!), I ran across a local programmer in my networking circles that uses Open Cart. My God, what a LIFESAVER. The thing is so simple to use, even a retard could install and use it. *jumping up and down with glee!*

After my new programmer took me on a working tour of the Open beast, I jumped on installing one on my system ASAP. Then, to my horror, after I had deleted all the sample categories for products, the damn thing wouldn’t let me create new ones! WTF?!?!?!!!! I went to Open Cart’s forum and looked up the problem. They knew what it was.

Would you believe it was the Germans???

Yes, the problem (for those of you tearing your hair out), is the stupid German language module in the admin area. Find the language and delete it, dude. Then your Open Cart will work like a charm. God, I love forums. Go to them early and often and you won’t have to rely on the lack of customer service and 24/7/365 tech support #s.

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