[dropcap]N[/dropcap]ot sure where that half a year went. My joining Brian Lamb in the TRUOL Innovations dept. was a fairly unusual recruiting process. I’ll forgoe the details for the pub, but he needed first to introduce a diagnostic period to determine if I was what Mayor Topham Hatt in Thomas the Train might call, “a useful…
I know they both have the letters “word” in them, but can WordPress and Microsoft Word really work together somehow? Recently I discovered not one but two ways that MS Word can be helpful in your WordPress work. Copy and Paste First, WordPress has recently responded to a commonly employed workflow that resulted in a…
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he following sites are places you can get artwork and images for free. Be sure to check the terms of use, Some of them require a credit line or other type of attribution. Images Canada Central search access to the thousands of images held on the websites for participating Canadian Cultural Institutions. Images of Canadian…
Wordpress has three standard places to put the majority of your stuff: Configuration settings, pages and posts. There are also some non-standard places to put stuff. You will want to think carefully about where you are going to put your stuff, especially when it comes to non-standard areas. Standard Content Areas Configuration settings One of…
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]here is a quote attributed variously to Benjamin Franklin or Winston Churchill. I first encountered it on a hand produced wooden plaque at my uncle’s cabin. The cabin is constructed on a side hill and depends heavily on a series of retaining walls and other ground stabilization methods. The gist of the quote is “to…
Several months back I developed a learning plan for bringing my coding skills up to speed. As I started working with a couple of programming languages it became apparent that I need to buff up my logic and design theory. I short-listed several books and settled on this one. It was a great choice. After…