sIFR

May 27th, 2008 @ 1:24 pm

Ahhh…sIFR - also know as “Scalable Inman Flash Replacement”. I’m not going to go through and tell you the history and all that - there’s plenty of information on it out there for you to peruse at your leisure. Me, I’m a “get to the point” kinda gal - as you all know.

For a long time, people have wanted to move away from he “standard” fonts found in a particular browser, and use a nice font for headings, titles, and such on their sites. Usually, the way around this was to create said text as an image file, and plug it in on the site. But oh, how lovely would it be if this could be done dynamically, rather than creating an image for every single piece of text you wanted to replace?

I’ve done it before, using dynamic text replacement, which creates PNG images on-the-fly. This is a popular method for people who want to have this ability, but don’t have access to Flash. But I’ve noticed if you use it for a lot of different things (like a recent client who wanted EVERY link replaced, as well as headings and certain pieces of text) you’re gonna back things up like eating a pound of cheese on constipation day. (yes, as if we all have a “constipation day”. Mine’s on Friday. LOL)

Ahh, how I wanted to use sIFR. And now that I have my shiny new Mac with CS3, I can finally do it. So last week, I started to try it out for the first time. And I failed. Miserably.
Read More »

Posted by admin

Just letting you know…

May 16th, 2008 @ 10:15 am

My categories are way messed up - so I’m going to have to go through all of my old posts and re-categorize everything - blegh. I’m super-busy with clients (OMG - I had someone contact me on Second Life last night - I was shocked!), so - and I …

more »

One more thing…

May 13th, 2008 @ 11:03 am

The Orange Crush downloads are back, as well as my contact form script.

Still working out some bugs like missing images and stuff - but it’s all there.

That is all :)

Installing WordPress on IIS

May 13th, 2008 @ 10:15 am

Okay all - I know it’s been a while since I’ve been around - and I apologize for that.  I see the spammers are bastards and are posting like crazy here, greeeeaaaat.  Thanks a lot, assholes.  I have to move hosts in the midst of probably my busiest season ever, I take a teensy shortcut and there you go.  You all suck.  (The spammers, I mean.)

ANYWAY…

So, I had the joy of trying to install WordPress on a Windows IIS Server.  Now, I think it’s no secret that I hate Windows servers.  It’s a personal preference, really.  Mainly because any time I’ve had to deal with a Windows hosting client, the reason the host chose Windows is because they have no idea what they’re doing, and the “tech support” would disappear every time I had a question about some stupid configuration setting, and then come back three weeks later asking “Did you get it figured out yet?”

Granted, there are some people out there who know what they’re doing.  But in my experience, IIS sucks unless you know what you’re doing - and 99% of the time, the people behind the server don’t have a clue.

That rant aside - I had a client who needed WordPress installed on IIS.  Two-and-a-half weeks later, I got it installed.  For those of you having this issue, I’m going to tell you what made the difference for me, so you don’t have to go through what I did.

more »