I like your site - you hit the exact tone and feel for what you are attempting to create, in my opinion. My first impression is that the green of the script underneath the main heading (“Down to earth marketing”) is a touch light - if it’s the same color as the links in the main body, I’d darken it. Oh, and the font used for the blog portion, lower right corner, is jarring compared to the rest of the page. It might just be a formatting issue, for all I know.
I like your background, too - I confess I don’t know how to do that kind of thing at the moment.
And as far as these folks you mention, I can certainly second your comments. Walt saved my bacon a few years ago in a pinch (I was in a true panic), and he probably doesn’t even remember. I never forgot his help. DeltaDave was instrumental in helping me with an issue recently that I couldn’t get my head around, patiently helping me with what should have been obvious. Dans’ screencasts are the best. Every day I learn something new and am constantly humbled by these guys, and others, here.
For the blog snipp it… I was told no
Styling … but if walt says I can I will.
Humbled is a great word to use for all the gurus.
And thank u again
J
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On Jun 17, 2010, at 23:40, Rick Vieh email@hidden wrote:
I like your site - you hit the exact tone and feel for what you are
attempting to create, in my opinion. My first impression is that the
green of the script underneath the main heading (“Down to earth
marketing”) is a touch light - if it’s the same color as the links
in the main body, I’d darken it. Oh, and the font used for the blog
portion, lower right corner, is jarring compared to the rest of the
page. It might just be a formatting issue, for all I know.
I like your background, too - I confess I don’t know how to do that
kind of thing at the moment.
And as far as these folks you mention, I can certainly second your
comments. Walt saved my bacon a few years ago in a pinch (I was in a
true panic), and he probably doesn’t even remember. I never forgot
his help. DeltaDave was instrumental in helping me with an issue
recently that I couldn’t get my head around, patiently helping me
with what should have been obvious. Dans’ screencasts are the best.
Every day I learn something new and am constantly humbled by these
guys, and others, here.
On Jun 17, 2010, at 23:40, Rick Vieh email@hidden wrote:
I like your site - you hit the exact tone and feel for what you are
attempting to create, in my opinion. My first impression is that the
green of the script underneath the main heading (“Down to earth
marketing”) is a touch light - if it’s the same color as the links
in the main body, I’d darken it. Oh, and the font used for the blog
portion, lower right corner, is jarring compared to the rest of the
page. It might just be a formatting issue, for all I know.
I like your background, too - I confess I don’t know how to do that
kind of thing at the moment.
And as far as these folks you mention, I can certainly second your
comments. Walt saved my bacon a few years ago in a pinch (I was in a
true panic), and he probably doesn’t even remember. I never forgot
his help. DeltaDave was instrumental in helping me with an issue
recently that I couldn’t get my head around, patiently helping me
with what should have been obvious. Dans’ screencasts are the best.
Every day I learn something new and am constantly humbled by these
guys, and others, here.
I’d like to know how this has been done at http://www.grassrootsweb.net. An oversimplification I’m sure but it looks like your blog posts are done in FW and the ‘comments’ is done using Discus. Is that correct?
As long as you’ve updated to the latest version of the SimpleRSS Action, you can use as much styling as you like, and whatever tags you like, so H2 for your headline if you want to add some semantic weight to your blog. Just stick to ONLY HTML TEXT, no pictures within the Blog box, and you should be just fine.
it is using his simplerss action on the front page with a blurb from the post. with the read more.
the blog “post” is in a file system
(all below are folders)
Blog
2010
May
June
- then add your page with the html “post” in it.
each time you add another page I change the link above so it goes to the newest one.
and I have the disqus comments on each.
to subscribe to it I used the addthis button action in FW or you can do the addthis from their site and have analytics attached.
the email subscription is all through feed burner.
I also have a addthis share button on each page so people can share the post.
the addthis button and feedburner actually is something that will help the rankings in google and bring people in (at least thats what the social / viral marketing people say LOL)
THis is a “brief” sum up.
Thank you
J
On Jun 18, 2010, at 8:39 AM, troubadour wrote:
I’d like to know how this has been done at http://www.grassrootsweb.net. An oversimplification I’m sure but it looks like your blog posts are done in FW and the ‘comments’ is done using Discus. Is that correct?
As long as you’ve updated to the latest version of the SimpleRSS Action, you can use as much styling as you like, and whatever tags you like, so H2 for your headline if you want to add some semantic weight to your blog. Just stick to ONLY HTML TEXT, no pictures within the Blog box, and you should be just fine.
I can hear the sharp intake of breath all over the world as I confess to only owning a lite version of Photoshop, probably a good 8 or so years old at this point. I was actually thinking about GIMP, but I’m unclear about X11 stuff, so, not yet. I have a friend up in Boulder who does interesting things with Photoshop, even taking bit and pieces of photos and things she finds and turning them into interesting textures and shapes, backgrounds, etc., so when I need something I usually let her have a crack at it. I’m at the point, though, that I’d like to start building my own graphics for nav purposes, as I learn more about CSS and do away with dynamic navigation.
The blog approach you’ve used is something else, I’ll have to try this sometime. I bookmarked the site as a learning example.
Rick,
I love it. it works for my purpose to drive traffic and to communicate with my potential and current clients.
It seems like it is a lot of work for setup etc and the first time was (but easier DT Walt)… but once you do it once - it is easy a very easy process to recreate somewhere else.
I am touched that you did.
Julie
On Jun 18, 2010, at 12:43 PM, Rick Vieh wrote:
I can hear the sharp intake of breath all over the world as I confess to only owning a lite version of Photoshop, probably a good 8 or so years old at this point. I was actually thinking about GIMP, but I’m unclear about X11 stuff, so, not yet. I have a friend up in Boulder who does interesting things with Photoshop, even taking bit and pieces of photos and things she finds and turning them into interesting textures and shapes, backgrounds, etc., so when I need something I usually let her have a crack at it. I’m at the point, though, that I’d like to start building my own graphics for nav purposes, as I learn more about CSS and do away with dynamic navigation.
The blog approach you’ve used is something else, I’ll have to try this sometime. I bookmarked the site as a learning example.
I’m at the point, though, that I’d like to start building my own graphics for nav purposes, as I learn more about CSS and do away with dynamic navigation.
Remember that you can export graphics that you create within FW using tools/actions like FillMaster and then reuse/import them back in to FW as if they were created externally.
Right, Freeway can be an image creator too as those Graphic FAST Packs of long ago are now implemented right into the software.
The only issues with that though is that you don’t get the quality control as you would with an actual photo program and you won’t get an accurate file size of the graphic you just created until you’ve saved it and looked at it in Finder.
I’ve seen people use GIMP and they seem to like it. Perhaps GIMP will go native to MacOSX because I know OpenOffice runs in X11 and it’s slllloooowww.
I looked at both Pixelmator and Acorn and chose Pixelmator. It is very good and very Mac like. There are also lots of video tutorials available on YouTube for it.
I’ve just loaded up Pixelmator and perhaps Freeway could be inspired by the interface. So far, pretty good and I agree that there are lots of tutorials for it.
The only issues with that though is that you don’t get the quality control as you would with an actual photo program and you won’t get an accurate file size of the graphic you just created until you’ve saved it and looked at it in Finder.
This is the issue that I’ve experienced, as well.
I’ve seen people use GIMP and they seem to like it. Perhaps GIMP will go native to MacOSX because I know OpenOffice runs in X11 and it’s slllloooowww.
I’d run across this comment before. So, maybe I’ll try Pixelmator.
you won’t get an accurate file size of the graphic you just created
until you’ve saved it and looked at it in Finder.
Actually, the Finder will not give you a relevant file size, not
something that relates to serving files from a web site.
I won’t go into details, but the size you see in the Finder relates
to the smallest formatted block size of your hard disk, NOT the
actual number of bytes in your graphi. Whereas the number of bytes is
precisely what is sent when someone visits your site - and that’s
what you are given in Freeway.