The Last Horizontal Menu Item in CMS Made Simple (CMSMS)
Ready for the Long Weekend
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I have a “Poetry/Prose” section of this website where I’ve been putting up some random thoughts and ideas. Since my website makes use of images as a primary means...
An incredible time-laps movie of the Milky Way galaxy and El Teide, recorded by Terje Sørgjerd.
When I need inspiration, I often watch this video. Credits Director, designer, and animator: Yannick Puig Music: Kwoon
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The moon drifted down into the softness of the painted southern sky, gently penetrating the misty clouds and falling silently onto the lap of the earth to rest awhile....
A quick tutorial/reference on how to setup SSL for the administration panel of CMS Made Simple (CMSMS) … Update A major update to CMS Made Simple v1.10 “Martinique” was...
Can something you’ve created from your old artwork, really be considered new artwork? Here’s the original version of “The Swim”, a 3D image created in Bryce and Poser back...
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The emptiness of the Autumn sky is rising and I pass slow days buried and shrouded in my bitter and endless work waiting for that beautiful echo of the...
The legend we are living is the magic dance of the big kiss. The tender hot balance of designing our lives each day, and planning our deaths when we...
If you try to do a comparison between CMSMS vs. WordPress to determine which platform to use for both a website AND blog, good luck. If you’re in the...
The moon drifted down into the softness of the painted southern sky, gently penetrating the misty clouds and falling silently onto the lap of the earth to rest awhile....
Stay radiant and wandering. Be imperfect and fascinating. Show hunger without fear. Leave the whisper of dying leaves desperate for the crunch of your footsteps, and go south!
The slight chill in the deep, Swimming through your toes Is the ascending lips of cancer. The dark sea floor is a collective, Dense body of stolen existence where...
Just about every night, Sam and I play around with an iPhone app called “Magic Piano” by Smule. When opening Magic Piano, we were directed towards a new app...
I call for the waiting calm of the dark, Like asking a shadow to hide. Please devour us quickly, As you engulf our brilliant sorrow. Melt the chains of...
A promise in rolling smoke, Blooming beyond the deep unknown, A gently passing balance between Existence without need, and A tickling whisper like lulled magic, Lost on the unfilled...
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We planted a mess of sunflowers this year, and I’ve really enjoyed watching the hummingbirds and bumblebees, not to mention all of the finches, having fun with the sunflowers.
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He’s into dropping rocks through water drains, so we dug a hole and put one in our back yard
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While waiting for the train, I looked up from my book and noticed that everyone had turned into frozen, fake plastic.
If you’re having problems viewing the “.htaccess” file in your Aptana Studio 3 connections, here’s a quick set of steps to get you to be able to view it...
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It’s great when you find a gem like this in the midst of the umpteen pictures you’ve taken throughout the day.
As the broken muse left the boy in emptiness, the cocoon around him twisted shut, as did the desperate desire for painting blue. He surrendered her to dust. Gone into endless winter,...
When laying out a seciton of HTML that contains several floating DIVs, such as thumbnail images or a set of icons for a web-based mobile app, you may wish...
This is a short set of 6 monochromatic Adobe Photoshop gradient presets. Used as a foundation, these provide me with a foundation of creating colored variations of buttons and...
When creating a new website in CSM Made Simple (CMSMS), you can take the site a step further by adding meaningful “non-content” to areas that you’ve setup, such as...
I’m working on a set of Adobe Photoshop actions that include some lomography, aged, and retro photo effects that you can use on your digital photos. This is a...
Yes, there is an “app for that” …and it’s just iTunes. These steps below will walk you through how to convert and load an MP3 file onto your iPhone...
There’s definitely an art to resizing logos. All logos are different, and when displaying a lot of them together on a page you have to be really careful that...
Find out how Spotflag and American University are working together to connect the entire campus. You can also read the article by The Eagle’s Marie Zoglo. Spotflag is a...
The Facebook Like Button allows visitors on your website to quickly and seamlessly share your website’s content on their Facebook News Feed. If you would like to add the...
We launched our new website today at Threshtech.com! The Threshold Technologies website is running on the CMS Made Simple (CMSMS) platform, which is our content management system of choice....
Clients love CMSMS. Since its focus isn’t on blogging, it becomes an issue when a client wants a blog integrated into their website. When a blog is requested, we...
If you have multiple galleries or albums, it’s much more efficient to have a single Flash .swf source file that can pull your XML file. Searching through the SlideShowPro...
The memory so aching Of the pretending girl, With blooming petals and Bright, whispered beauty Through the dreaming glass: Please leave an echoing word.
The first step when I develop a site in CMSMS is I turn on “Pretty URLs”. Although having a site with “Pretty URLs” is a long-running best practice for...
From time to time the style of a “last” menu item needs to be styled differently. This is typically the case when you’re using something like border-right: 1px solid...
A website’s site map and copyright date are dynamic objects, which change through time as the website grows. Depending on how your website was built, the site map can...
One of the most flexible ways to style a horizontal rule and to make sure it’s cross-browser compatible, you typically "hide" the <hr /> inside of a stylized "DIV"....