Here are some photos of Bascom Hill in the autumn of 2009. In autumn this is a very colorful place. This is one of my favorite places to photograph, and it is especially beautiful in autumn.
It was an especially nice autumn, although I think I did miss the very peak of the colors. I was fortunate to obtain a number of really nice photos. After doing lots of processing, sorting, collating, and other related activities, I am finally bringing to you the last of a series of photos on the autumn topic for Bascom Hill.
Some technical tips on doing complex html
(and related items)
in WordPress
I struggled a bit trying to get raw HTML into a blog post. I did some
experimenting with some techniques and I searched the internet for solutions. I
collected a few links and other notes below.
More ...
Some links on HTML related issues
There is really a lot of help on the internet. Here are some other
links I have found.
Here is an assortment of really excellent tips and
tricks.
There are lots of excellent PHP methods here.
This post discusses some
useful
tricks if you are using Word.
This problem of entering raw HTML into WordPress is solved by installing this "raw html" word press
plug in. This post
is done using this plug in using raw HTML.
Other notes - verify your web pages
Then it is a good idea to verify the html that
you just created, so that it is free of errors. Do this before you
upload the html. To do this, I use this online
website validator. (Also see
the word press
documentation
on validation.) If it passes this test, then it is good html. Miraculously,
complex blog pages can pass such rigorous
validation tests. For example, I have been lucky enough to have my
entire main page pass this validation, which is incredible, given the
complexity of the blog page.
This post was updated in March, 2017.
It is an amazingly popular post.
Cutie pie fish (cpf) are a favorite sketch topic of mine. But look out if you get a little smac from a cutie pie fish.
This is a painting.
This cutie pie fish doesn’t have a name yet.
Cutie pie fish
This image is used for the “fish bullets” that appear as the list icons in the bullet lists in these blog pages. This is an awful lot of work to get a list icon image. But cutie pie fish are worth it. I really like good cutie pie fish.
I have begun trying to do some simple customizations to my blog.
There is really a lot of help on the
internet regarding getting help with word press.
Here are a few links on doing word press customizations and other things that I
have found useful.
Continue reading Word press layout and other online help links→
Fish, and in particular “cutie pie fish”, are a favorite sketch topic of mine.
Cutie pie fish
The little “fish bullet” used in place of an ordinary bullet in my bullet lists is another cutie pie fish sketch. (It’s a really cute fish.) Hopefully more fish sketches will appear here in the not-too-distant future.
I used the term cpf in place of “cutie pie fish”.
The cpf first started appearing in the ubiquitous magazine called SMV, Jr., an obnoxious art and fiction magazine created by myself around the year 2004. Some of these cpf sketches may appear there along with associated fictional stories.
I have been tweaking with Word press and find that it is reasonably
flexible in being able to do the kinds of renderings that one wants to
do. I am doing this post in html just to see how it works. This is my
first html post. I am sure that I'm still an amateur at a lot of
this stuff - there are really a lot of nice looking blogs out
there.
I created a few styles in the style sheet to
accommodate things that I would like to do. The style sheet for this
theme is called style.css. You take it off
of the server and edit it to make your changes. I pasted in some of my
personal styles that I use often.
This is not the first time I have tweaked styles. It
seems that I have spent a good part of my life trying to get those CSS
styles just right.
Indented text. I want to have
the ability to
indent and
to highlight stuff.
Times font. It takes a bit of tweaking to
get this size of the "times" font right. I want to be able
to render times, since this is such a standard font.
And here is an ordinary paragraph.
And this is a bullet item. A fish bullet should
show.
It took me a ton of time to try to get this
fish icon working. And it's not quite right yet. Maybe it says
that I prefer fish to bullets.
The editor that word press provides is nice and
has spoiled me a bit. It is very easy to use. On the contrary, doing
the "raw html", as in this post, not only puts hair on your
chest, takes a lot longer, but also greatly increases the likelihood
of making errors.
And here we are back out of the dotted outline section. This
entry is a lot of gibberish, but I am testing some of these new
styles.
About the greatest test in life is to create a table. An
even greater test is to try to do it in word press.
Well I'm not going to mess with the table styles. It
looks pretty complicated.
If I get bold I might mess with the hover characteristics of
the table, but not now.
Well this post took well over an hour (more like two or three). There
are times when it's probably worth the trouble. And it's good
to know that it can be done even though you always do not want to take
the time.
Well I had to update this post a
number of times. I made really a lot of errors. I had an immense
amount of trouble. It's never as easy as it looks.
