Some of you may have noticed some changes to our gallery page.  I’ve recently started using the NextGEN Gallery plugin for WordPress.  I like it much better than Coppermine which is what I was using before. When combined with the WP lightbox 2 plugin, it makes a very nice gallery. At Holly’s request, I’ve also re-enabled the password protection on the page.  It’s not 100% secure since I currently have a random...

I have gone through and fixed the website. At least it should be fixed. I’m not seeing any problems on my end but if you are, let me know. I had to take down all of my widgets and re-write all of the code that you see manifested in the sidebars. If anybody knows a lot about WordPress programming and wants to help me figure out why my widgets don’t work in Internet Explorer, your help would be very welcome and...

A few months back, WordPress released a new version that added some pretty cool features.  I held off on upgrading our site because I wanted to give the developers of the plug-ins that I use ample time to ensure that they would be compatible.  Well, time’s up. Yesterday morning, I upgraded to WordPress 2.3.2.  You may or may not have noticed the subtle changes that were visible.  Almost everything appeared to be OK after the...

What’s a Gravatar you ask? Basically it’s an avatar, or picture, that follows a user from site to site. When a comment is posted, their avatar shows up allowing others to see more than a person’s name. They have been used in forums for years. Now, they are bursting onto the scene in blogs. A while back I tried enabling Gravatars on the site but could never get them to work properly. Today I had some time at work and...

You may have noticed when you visited the website that you were redirected here. Over the past couple of weeks, I have been having problems with the site on the old domain. I didn’t have full functionality of WordPress which is basically what my site uses. That’s not a good thing. I also had problems with the site crashing my browser about 90% of the time. That’s also not a good thing. After doing tons of research, I...