Plenty-Diversified

5 Sidebars and Random Images

C Rand-Thompson — Mon, 18 May 2009 06:16:02 +0000

- Part 1

All I wanted was five sidebars and a random images option. Is that too much to ask? Apparently, it is.

Having realized that there just isn’t a WordPress theme that does everything I want done, I got my tools in order for a little bit of DIY web design. Back to the drawing board I went. In my case, going back to the drawing board means getting busy with Sandbox and Google.

One great thing about the Sandbox theme, is that it is infinitely modifiable using only the stylesheet(s). CSS and I were not always besties, but that changed when I found the Web Developer extension for Firefox, thanks to a great piece on Lifehacker.

With this extension, CSS changes are viewable as you edit—no more changing one thing, uploading, refreshing, or fighting with a shadow copy of your site on a development server.

So, with my dream of five sidebars, or in the alternative four sidebars and a random images header option, I set about looking for the good news on how to make it all happen, on Google. I found this: Widgetized headers and footers?

- End of Part 1 -

Clipomatic kicks it

C Rand-Thompson — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:51:42 +0000

Well, I guess it was bound to happen sometime; yesterday, the little clipboard utility that I’ve relied upon for years finally bit the dust. Sob! We’ve been thru Windows 98, ME, 200 and now XP together. I’ll have to soldier on through XP with a new clipboard companion, though.

Is it possible to webmaster without a clipboard utility? Is it worth the time and aggravation to find out? What say you good people? …resounding “No”!

Upon the recommendation of the excellent Lifehacker, I shall sally forth with my new copying cohort, Clipdiary. Suddenly, my clipboard-ability will explode from the 8 slots available with Clipomatic, when it was functioning, up to eveything I copy.

Oh joy, oh bliss. Another task becomes less odious! Righty-oh, let’s give it a go. So far, I am loving Clipdiary.

Hello blog world!

C Rand-Thompson — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 20:54:02 +0000

There are a lot of fantastic free or “cheap” tools available to webmasters and website owners, if you just know where to look. On the web, perhaps more than anywhere else, sometimes the best things really are free, or close to it. Finding these resources can be very time consuming and rather hit or miss.

We’ve set out to share the great resources we’ve found in our own unending quest for cool stuff for our various websites. On the Webmaster Links and Tools pages, you will find resources and links for almost every aspect of web site design and business: e-Commerce, online payments, site templates, software, site promotion and search engine tools…

We’ve gotten great use out of the tools and services which we recommend, and were inspired by the online Open Source community to share this information with you. There are plenty of diversified opportunities for everyone to succeed together.