Mar 30 2012
With the blog’s title now above the banner, I could again allow the featured images associated with the blogs to replace the banner image. After activating this feature I was surprised to see it did not work. I tried both resizing the images to slightly larger than the required size and this seemed to work …
Mar 28 2012
In 2005 a friend of mine, R. Fairweather, asked if I would help him set up a web site at www.lempsternh.org with Dreamweaver templates to enable him to provide his town with a web site where residents and visitors can find information about Lempster and the town government. He has been quite active in the …
Mar 23 2012
Indeed there are other themes available that allow much greater customization. This one, Grahpene, allows for featured images to replace the header image. The trouble with that is the name of blog is layered on top of the image requiring a contrasting color to stage the text. My featured images are not compatible so, for …
Mar 21 2012
In working with WordPress I have figured out how to make a custom image appear in the banner for each blog. They are screen shots of the sites I have built and they appear on the individual blog pages, not the blog home page where the newest blogs are summarized and a random selection of …
Mar 19 2012
Many thanks to Learn2Wordpress.com for their instructions on how to install WordPress. This enabled me to move from cliffbd.wordpress.com to this blog on my own server.
Mar 14 2012
[googlemaps https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Glen+Lake,+Castleton,+VT&aq=0&oq=glen+lake+castlevermont&sll=43.663802,-73.237464&sspn=0.025705,0.052443&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Glen+Lake&t=h&z=14&ll=43.663802,-73.237464&output=embed&w=425&h=350] Off on a hike at Glen Lake to check how much ice is on the lake and to see how long before I can put the kayak on the water, I took the photos seen at the top of this blog of the ice and the the hike along the shore.The ice was …
Mar 06 2012
The Chittenden Historical Society has long been awaiting an update for their web site. Originally designed as a compact size window with scrolling elements within the window, it appeared dwarfed on modern screens. Now wider and with no height restriction, the content height will fill the browser window and scroll when needed. Other improvements include a text …
Feb 04 2012
DDBuilder has been working on another building project and I was asked to upload photos and display them in iWeb created pages. Log builders, Wooden House Company, drew up the plans and pre-assembed parts of the structure at their facility and trucked them to the site. The same team assembled the log frame. Check out the …
Dec 21 2011
Added new photos to Dutton Construction’s finished project, Sugar Hill. Photo pages on DDBUILDER.COM are created with Apple’s iWeb and posted to a public folder on DropBox. Completed projects were moved from “ongoing” to “completed” page and thumbnails/preview images were updated. Next will be a new project added to “ongoing” when I receive the new images …
Oct 12 2011
The Chittenden Dammers Snowmobile Club is the first of my sites I linked to a WordPress blog. The trail conditions blog has become quite popular. This update changes the welcome blurb, the TMA membership form and some photos.
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