8 25
Facebook fan page graphics created
Today, I worked on a new graphic design for an AMAZING client. She is Sandra De Freitas from Wordpress Blog Sites. I have had the wonderful joy of working for her on many projects, including this one.
A new graphic was created for a Facebook Fan Page. (This isn’t the complete graphic, just a snippet until I get feedback from the client)
As you may or may not know, the graphics are created the same but to add the code to Facebook, you must use FBML (that will be another post). So, the graphic is completed – now I’m just waiting on approval!
8 17
Kawasaki Motorcycle Web Updates
In an effort to show potential clients the BROAD range of skills I have, I am starting a daily ‘what I’m doing’ post.
Today, I had the usual struggle to dive back into work after a week off on the Washington Coast (like to see some pictures, click here). Once I got started, I got quite a bit accomplished.
Long-time client, Beartooth Kawasaki (www.beartoothkawasaki.com) needed the annual product updates done to their various websites. It takes a bit of time but it’s enjoyable because I have been doing it for many years.
Kawasaki Motorcycle website edits
Skills required on this particular job include an understanding and ability to code in PHP, as well as HTML and CSS, image manipulation and attention to detail.
Have a job like this? Contact me today to find out how I can help.
7 28
Adding thumbnail support to your Wordpress theme
Yea Wordpress! Starting in version 2.9, thumbnail support is built into the code, which means that instead of doing all the hard work, Wordpress has done it for you! For the most part anyway…
It’s a pretty simple process.
1. Add a line of code to functions.php
add_theme_support('post-thumbnails');
2. Define the size of the thumbnails – you have a couple options. You can hard crop it, which is what I have done in the example below (add ‘true’ to the end of the dimensions), or you can resize the box. Box resizing shrinks an image without distortion until it fits inside the “box” you’ve specified with your dimensions.
set_post_thumbnail_size( 100, 100, true ); // 100 pixels wide by 100 pixels tall, hard crop mode
Together this will look like:
3. Add the code to your template
That’s it! Now when you login to your wp-admin panel scroll down – on the right side under ‘Categories’:
Click on ’set thumbnail’ and you get this box:
Be sure to select ‘Use as thumbnail’ and then ’save’. Then close the window with the X on top right.
Here’s an example of it used on one of my sites:
