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Posts Tagged Technology

Website Template v1.0

I’ve been putting together a few different websites that incorporate the same basic functionality in the navigation system. Its not a CMS, but rather just hard coded html and php which uses a lot of cool little things to dynamically create the navigation (sort of). I’m sure this could be way improved as I continually […]


FileMaker Content Management System Part I

One of my greatest joys of this past week was finding out that I will be able to use a FileMaker PHP API to put together a pretty slick content management system. I’d like to gather some resources and experiences in this post and hopefully show the way a little easier for someone who may […]


Wordpress. Grrr.

I swear Wordpress hates me. It looks so nice and seems so easy. I think I’m probably doing something wrong, but every time I try to format my posts or correct little issues like paragraph breaks, this ignorant little wysiwyg editor just mashes up my code and spits it out in ways that look like […]


Flickr vs Picasa vs FTP

I keep going back and forth on how to handle photographs on the site. I love the Flickr integration with Lightbox all in a Wordpress plugin that just works (after a night of it simply not working, and then working fine the next day without any changes), but I hate the Flickr limits of 200 […]