Paul

 

I just finished putting together a website for a family member who is running in an upcoming election for a local office.  I used Artisteer to generate a very simple one-column, red, white and blue wordpress theme so voters can instantly get to know a candidate.  I thought with November elections coming up, this might be a WordPress theme that others can use so I’m making it available here for free.   If enough people are interested in the free version of this theme, then I’ll take the trouble and add more features like different page templates (with multiple columns), wordpress menu support and the like.

Please let me know what you think of this theme and if you have any suggestions or feedback:

Download here: Wordpress Political Theme (103)

*for $10, I can help place the candidates picture in your theme if you need help doing so.  Just contact me for help.

 

 

Are you like me and have a lot of pictures?  Like, 33,000+?

Well, I recently purchased a new computer and I’m trying to figure out how to transfer my photos, using Picasa, from one computer to another.  I’ve also been wondering for a while how to backup Picasa to my external hard drive because burning 17 DVDs seems like an awful amount of work.

So I figured out how to backup Picasa to an external hard drive and wanted to share this info with you.  So here is how to get started:

1) Click “Tools – > Back Up Pictures

2) Click “New Set” in the “Create a Set or use an existing one” box

 

3) A “New Backup Set” window will appear.  You can create a name for your backup set.  This name will be a way for you to recall this backup later.  I would name it “Backup to External” or something along those lines so you don’t confuse your backup sets.   Under “Backup type” you can choose either CD/DVD or disk-to-disk.  It even says in the parenthesis “for external..drives”.  Now you can use the “Choose…” button to navigate and select your external hard drive.  Once you have selected your hard drive, you will be able to select the “Create” button.

 

4) You’ll now want to choose the folders and albums you want to backup.  The default is to show just the files since your previous backup.  If this is your first backup to your external, then you want to “Select All”  Give it a few minutes to calculate how much space will be needed.

5) Click “Backup”

That’s it!

Now hopefully for my next post, I can talk you through how to restore this backup to your new computer (once I get Picasa installed on it!)

Paul

 

 

 

I was playing around on a client’s site today, trying to figure out how to activate the joomla breadcrumb module.  Everything I read said that Joomla 1.5.x has a breadcrumb module already pre-installed, but when I went to the modules administration screen, I couldn’t find anything that said ‘breadcrumb” so where the heck is it?

Turns out, Joomla does have a breadcrumb module, but you have to create it first.  Here are the steps:

  1. Go to Extensions – Module Manager
  2. Click on the “New” Icon on the Right
  3. Click on “Breadcrumbs”, click “Next”
  4. Configure module like normal (title, position, class, etc)

See, I told you it was easy!  Still don’t believe me, check out this video tutorial:

 

There are a couple of keyboard shortcuts that I’m always looking for when creating blog posts.  I’m posting the shortcuts here for you (and for me).

The first is the © (copyright) symbol. To create the copyright symbol while typing press and hold the ALT key on your keyboard and then enter 0-1-6-9 consecutively on your keyboard. Again that is “ALT”+0169.

The second symbol is the § (section) symbol.  I use the section symbol when refering the Code of Federal Regulations.  For instance, let’s say I’m going to quote from CFI Title 14 Section 91.  I would enter §91.xx for the regulation I am about to reference, see? To create the section § symbol, hold the ALT key on your keyboard and then enter 0-1-6-7 consecutively on your keyboard. Again, that is ALT+0167 for the § section symbol.

Now, if your last question is, where did you get that “keyboard font”, I downloaded the font “Keystrokes.ttf” from here:

http://www.coolfonts.info/font-5520-keystroke.php

You can also try these places for free fonts that look like keyboard keys:

http://www.byte-sized.com/?software/keyboard/download.htm

http://www.newfonts.net/index.php?pa=show_font&id=111

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