Here’s how I changed the text size and color for th articles on this blog. (I thought the text was too small and too grey). In the Site Admin panel, I found the “Editor” button under “Appearance”. Exploring the various things to edit in the list on the right, I saw at the bottom “style.php”. Clicking pn that link, and looking at the code, I noticed this line:

body { font: .79em <?php echo $traffic_body_font; ?>; line-height: 1.6em; background: #D0D4D4; color: #<?php echo $traffic_font_color; ?>; }

OK, so “body” of course refers to the HTML body, which is what we want, and the part within the { } includes some CSS code specifying the font size. I recocgized “em” as a text size measurement. So I made it bigger – .99em. That made the text bigger and more readable, but pushed the text in the header down below the banner graphic. I tried it at .89, and that worked better.

This is a job I’ve found myself doing quite often in recent years: taking an old Mac and cleaning it up, fixing any problems, wiping the drive, getting it ready to sell. In this case an iBook 700MHz.

I did a quick little spreadsheet to see how many photos I’ve taken since I started keeping them on the computer (this doesn’t include scans of slides and stills - I’ll try and include that later!). Notice how the gigabytes jump up this year. This is because I’ve started shooting in RAW mode (with a Canon 40D), and they take up much more space than a jpg. Anyway, the total number of photos so far is almost 21,000:

Screenshot of spreadsheet calculating my total number of photos

So here is this newly-installed blog. I wonder what  version of Wordpress it is? Ah - it’s 2.7 (my other blog is 2.6 at the moment).  So what’s the difference with WP 2.7? The interface looks different.

Meeting Notes (need to be edited):

People pay him (Enrique Gutierrez) to create WP themes. He did a blog post about it.

Here’s his post about Customizing Wordpress

1. Planning: personal, pro? Monetized? Ad placement. How many columns - 2, 3 (pro) 4 (annoying). PLugins. Discuss, sociable you can style - avoid the mess. what pages are you planning - image galery, carasel, portfolion, boxes god forbid, contact forms (Cform). How to remind peopel to come back (RSS…) , what colors - Colorjack.com.

2. Design. Go into Photoshop . Not only for blog posts but for searches, page not found. Wp also has navigation, parent child relationship, blogroll, navigaition issues. Then PHP. Just enough to know what you are looking at. Use default to see what is there, start modifying it, throw images, the layout, Then the phase is modifying.

codex site

WP has functions that are English-like names. Google funciton name - will come up with codex site.

XAMP - (cross platform) - put WP on it. Localhost. for dicking around with thesemes, the way to go. Apache friends.org (Sourceforge). Will install services, web server.

Do this with OS ? MySQL

3 column these - two sidebar files - easier if it’s in one file (a programmer faux pax but easier mainentance).

Wordpress these read in top of CSS file has info about the theme.  WP will inform people of new version if you uplaod. PNG file thumbnail screenshot. 240 x 180 pixel.

happyandfun.org?

Q: recreate look of a site that exists already. match header file you already have. edit each file that creates pages

Dreamweaver - WP themes?

Wireframe = CSS framwork (2, 3 columns, …)

Wordpress.org has good docs. Wordpress Camp, SF, NY. Matt is founder.

SEO for WP. Wordpress.org has. Post at Weblosers.org. No, webwizrds

1. Self-host. Customization.

permalink structure is not search engine friendly.

3. Customize titles, keywords up front - heavier weaight on firs couple of words. Optimize descriptions, grab title, url, description tag

Optimize More text. Cusomize this for each post, specific keywords, incoming links

optimize images embedded - alt tags, title tags

All-in-one SEO

related posts plugin

simple tags plugin

twitter - good for networking, faster than facebook, updating with seeing hwat peopel are doing in more real time

search.twitter.com

tweetup

danlarson

tweets. twitter plugin - noice way to update a blog if you haven’t posted for a while

oscommerce - link to it form a WP site, make it look like your site

downtownrob  WEbwizards