This tutorial is for Gimp version 2.8 and is intended to teach users how to design a 125px x 125px advertising banner for use in website sidebars and elsewhere. These advertisement banners are perfect to use on your WordPress site with the WordPress Ad Widget plugin (https://wordpress.org/plugins/ad-widget/), though 125×125 pixels is a common and popular […]
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Developer Journal: Researching Web Design Portfolios & Case Studies (Collage by: Eric Hepperle Designs, 2018 | Credit: “Notebook Flat Icon Vector.svg” by Videoplasty.com; “pexels-photo-943096” by Danny Meneses)I’ve recently discovered the need for a decent web developer portfolio. Now, I’ve been aware of web developer portfolios for a while and I’ve seen some good ones. But,
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This is part of a new series I’m starting called Developer Journal. Posts in this series discuss my challenges — various programming and design topics I’m trying to figure out. I take you on my journey of learning and discovery. You get to experience my process for problem-solving and troubleshooting technical issues. While these are
Picture this. You just finished building a very basic WordPress website using any one of several popular contact form plugins including WPForms, Gravity Forms, Ninja Forms, Pirate Forms, or the old stalwart (and arguably the easiest contact form plugin to set up and configure), Contact Form 7. Maybe you’ve designed a detailed custom contact form
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2015.03.18 Just a quick note that Drafts Scheduler plugin isn’t working. 🙁 I tried it out for scheduling over the course of three (3) weeks about five or six times. I learned that it seemed to work as described the first 3 times, but not the next 3 times, and there is nothing I can
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10/27/14 7:30 AM Woke up and got dressed. Felt constipated so grabbed my tea-ball and made some Heal-All Tea from Nature’s Botanical Pharmacy. Did 60 crunches, 3 5-finger pushups, & 200 dahn-jon taps. Had a bowel movement about an hour later. Installed DAMN NFO Viewer v2.10.0032 RC3 (latest version from 2002 — yes, it’s that
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10/26/14 6:21 PM Today I took it easy, didn’t go anywhere, and slept in until 10 AM. I transferred a bunch of tutorials and software to my Seagate Backup Plus external USB hard drive, from my Western Digital MyBook array, so that I could source everything from my 1TB Seagate. I installed VoidTools
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10/25/14 3:00 PM Took my two older laptops and donated them to Free Geek, in downtown Portland. Mailed my HP Pavilion 17 laptop for service @ FedEx today. Need to scan the receipt because it is that dissappearing ink that fades away. 10:40 PM Installed VoidTools Everything. This is an excellent free Windows indexing/searching program
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10/24/14 I finished backing up my hard drive on my HP Pavilion 17 laptop around 4 PM. I tried, unsuccessfully, for over an hour to get my hard drive to restore, but it kept giving me an error to the effect of “the restore partition is bad“. Tomorrow I will remove the extra RAM I
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10.23.14 11:16 AM I just finished writing a story about me jogging to clear my head and changing a bad habit pattern of lethargy into vitality called … I published my Dell Computer Setup journal from yesterday, and managed to change the timezone to “Los Angeles” in WordPress, so I should be able to keep
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