Posts Tagged ‘Site Admin’

PicLens Test Post

| February 12th, 2008 | Comments Off | Miscellaneous

Kinney Lake Mount Robson and Mist Glacier Berg Lake and Mount Robson Mount Robson and the Robson Glacier

I’m testing a new plugin called PicLens. It looks promising, if I can get it working. The PicLens Plugin for WordPress takes all the images in a post and makes a slideshow from them. Could be very useful. It also includes a Slide-show widget, which you can see to the side. The widget, unfortunately, seems to be drawing images from some Stock Photo feed on Flickr, so a good many of the images in it are NOT mine. I’ll be working with the PicLens staff to figure this one out.

[piclens-lite-link]

Update: Well, originally, the plugin failed to work. Now, I’ve removed it, and re-installed it, and it’s working fine. Go figure.

Update 2: It seems that anytime I want to refresh the plugin, I have to deactivate it and reactivate it. Hopefully the slideshow widget works the same way. I won’t be reactivating the slideshow one for a while yet as I’m refreshing my older posts with photos.

July Site Updates

| July 9th, 2006 | Comments Off | Miscellaneous

Recent updates:

June Site Updates

| June 29th, 2006 | Comments Off | Miscellaneous

Recent updates:

  • Installed the Regulus theme by Ben @ Binary Moon for the site’s theme.
  • Made a few tweaks to the theme – mainly in the display colours.
  • Created my own header image featuring my own photographs
  • Added a calendar section which displays days with posts in bold.

There’s more to be done yet, but I’m reasonably happy with the look and feel now. There’s still a few tweaks I want to make. I’m also going to adapt the Regulus theme to the Coppermine photo gallery to keep a consistent look and feel going throughout my site. And I want to add a contact me form so people can send me a message outside of posting a comment.

Photo Gallery

| June 25th, 2006 | Comments Off | Miscellaneous

My Coppermine Photo Gallery is now up and running. Please check it out.
I’ll be adding more photos to it as I get a chance. Right now, all of 2003 and 2006 so far are in there. All my hiking trip digital photos are in there. I have to scan more hiking photos for a couple of trips. Family photos for 2004 and 2005 are incomplete as I need to sort them out. There’s still more work to be done, but it’s getting there.

I also just viewed my site in Internet Explorer 7, and wow does it look horrible. I should mention that I use Firefox almost exclusively. Anyway, I’ll be looking into a new theme for this site as soon as I can.

Update:
The new photo gallery replaces the old photo galleries. Everything that was in the old ones is now in the Coppermine gallery. Any questions, contact me.

Update 2: Just about all my digital photos are online now. Have a look! I still have a lot of scanning to do.

Testing Coppermine

| June 21st, 2006 | 2 Comments » | Miscellaneous

I’m testing the Coppermine photo gallery software for my website. Hopefully it will do what I want. In conjunction, I’m also testing the CoppermineSC Plugin for WordPress. Let’s see what happens.

Six Random Images from Radium Area Dayhikes Album
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A specific Image from Radium Area Dayhikes Album in Normal size
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Looks promising. I’ll be adding my photos to the gallery over time, and will post a link to it when I’m happy with everything.

Update: 2006-06-26: I’ve also found some style rules at Digital Westex that I’ve taken and modified for my own purposes. Warning: When I visited, the link led to a poorly designed page that was virtually unreadable due to the colour selection. Also minor edits to image headers.
Update: 2006-07-05: Reduced quantity of random images; fixed spelling mistake.
Update: 2006-08-08: Phil @ www.digitalwestex.com has fixed the page and it’s now readable! Thanks again Phil for your wonderful plugin.

Site Updates

| February 18th, 2006 | 1 Comment » | Miscellaneous

Recent site updates:

Site Updates

| January 11th, 2006 | Comments Off | Miscellaneous

I’ve updated the site to use WordPress 2.0. In the process I’ve broken the links to the Gallery. I will be correcting this as soon as I can.

Also, I’ve combined the Hiking Log entries back into the main blog. As such, there are some duplicate entries for the same events. I will be editing through the entire blog to consolidate things and make sure everything is categorized properly. This may take some time.

I’m also starting work on a new theme and layout. This is not a high-priority item for me however. It’ll get done when it gets done. Or it won’t. Who knows.

Edit (2006-01-14): Links to Gallery have been repaired and all traces of the Hiking Log have been removed.

Site Upgrades

| September 15th, 2005 | Comments Off | Miscellaneous

I have switched to a new theme for the presentation of my website. The new theme is called FallingLeaves and has been modified with the WordPress Gallery2 Plug-in which enables the photo gallery portion of the site to display with the same theme as the rest of the site. My Hiking Log will be modified to use the same theme in the near future.

I have also renamed the site from Brian’s Blog to BrianLang.ca.

My photo gallery

| September 14th, 2005 | Comments Off | Miscellaneous

I am in the process of upgrading my photo gallery from Gallery 1.5 to Gallery 2.0. As such, the photo gallery will be offline until I am finished.

UPDATE: The gallery has now been updated and is back online.

Brian’s website redesign

| March 12th, 2005 | Comments Off | Miscellaneous

I have finished my website redesign for the moment. I will not be making any more significant changes to the design or layout of the site for some time to come.