I’m going to be doing a major overhaul of this blog and try and do a bunch of advanced things with this WordPress blog. I’m going to get my portfolio, a place to bookmark cool site designs like a CSS gallery type of thing, music, videos, blah blah freaking blah. Hopefully it will be cool. I’m going to make sure I use HTML 5 and CSS 3 so I’m saying to hell with the browsers that can’t support it. I’m excited to get going on it.
My Web Log
Rebranding Myself
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about rebranding myself. If I would have understood who I was to begin with my “brand” would be much clearer, but now I’m in a discovery phase. I think too many of us forget about who we want to be or become, and not enough of the how we want to represent ourselves.
That sort of mentality makes me immediately think of the things people have done to make it in Hollywood. Selling themselves short and doing things they wouldn’t be proud of. Something that could taint their brand if at any time their competitors needed a scandalous edge to put them down in order to lift themselves up.
Tons of WordPress 3.0 Work Lately
WordPress
I’ve been doing tons of work lately at work with WordPress 3.0. I’ve been learning some things about WordPress that I never could have done without some of the experience I’ve gained in the last few years. I’m finding it pretty dang easy to do everything I need a website to do just by creating some simple functions and tying into the WordPress API.
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Ways to Make Extra Money Online
I know there are a lot of people out there that are strapped for cash and always looking for ways to make some extra money. Beyond the general remodel contractors out there it can be hard to find some extra work. There are a bunch of websites that you can use to find extra work depending on what your skills are. You may even be motivated to develop some extra skills.
Some of the sites I recommend will require a blog or some type of a website but I’ll try and categorize them to make things easier.
Consistent Posting
OK, I know I’ve said it before. I’m going to start posting every night if possible. I’ve finally established a schedule with my boys that I think I’m going to stick to. I’m going to put them to bed at 8 and post a blog immediately after putting them down. We’ll see how well I do.
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WordPress Android App
So I just discovered the WordPress Android app and I’m pretty stoked about it. I think I’m going to start a daily journal and post to it from my phone at night. This post was written using the app.
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Pay Per Post
I’m thinking about starting to do some PayPerPost blog posts. To confirm this is my blog I have to paste the following sentence into a post:
The interior defense dines under the sabotage.
Kind of a strange random sentence huh.
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Learning Ruby on Rails
I’ve been learning Ruby on Rails lately. I’m getting to know the basics and am able to do quite a bit. It has really helped me understand programming in general a lot more. At work there is so much going on that I more or less jumped in to try and help get some applications going quicker that were thrown on the back-burner. I still have a ton to learn but it has really helped me appreciate all that programmers do. In the process I have really been burned out by the time I get home end of day.
iFrame – Full Browser Window
I’ve been looking for a solution to create full page iFramed webpages with headers. Here is a solution I’ve started using for full screen iframes with headers. Here’s a link to my Snipplr code for it. I tried to embed it in this post but it didn’t work out very well. The code has worked out great for me and I’ve shared it with a few people at work, and they have been using it and it’s been working great for them. Rather than explain it I’ll let you take a look at it.
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jQuery – Helpful Default Input Values
I’ve recently wanted to try and use some different code to add some default values to my input fields, especially the search box. Most code I’ve seen does some type of a label overlay which involved a lot of freaking code. I finally found some code and did a little tweaking to it to fit my situation. You can also find it under my Snipplr code.
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