I used to add seasonal pictures to my email signatures, especially during the holidays. A few examples were added to the Digital Artwork section.
It's hard to believe I haven't made a full site update since January! Time flies...
First off, I had to put aside my Flickr updates for over a month while I re-designed this entire website. The choice to do so was when I found out I can run multiple blog indexes under one main blog component! It has made my updating efforts a breeze. To get a glimpse of the nerdy process, feel free to watch the YouTube video I found: {LINK REMOVED}. It was the most simplistic way to do it, I found.
In the past, I had to manually modify each website section by hand, taking the html grid and thumbnail placements and changing it all in GoLive, which is an HTML editor. Now, all I need to do is add the updates as a new posting, and it moves the older items over.
As for WordPress templates, I used The Unstandard for all of the website sections: art, archive, movies & pictures. For the actual blog section, I went with Plainscape. I did my best to match the multiple blogs into one consistent look that matched up, site-wide.
In the before and after screen shots below, you can see how much I needed to change everything from stock.
This includes the page layouts.
The hardest modification came from the section templates. I found one that displayed blog posts as image and had to severely tweak them!
And again for the page layout.
For copyright reasons, I wanted to give the template authors proper credit:
The Unstandard template belongs to {LINK REMOVED} and can be downloaded free: {LINK REMOVED}. The live preview is {LINK REMOVED}. The Plainscape template belongs to {LINK REMOVED} and can be downloaded free: {LINK REMOVED}. The live preview is {LINK REMOVED}.
As far as catching up on pictures goes, I am so behind.
Currently, I have about 25 sets and a few misc updates to upload to Flickr. Doing a search, it looks like a total of about 3000+ pictures and about 100+ videos! Those updates are coming soon.
Back in the days of MySpace, I used to post image comments for people's birthday and an occasional seasonal greeting. I added a couple to the Image Manipulation section.
