December 2007
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random photoshop tip - straightening wonky...
we’ve all got photographs were the horizontals or verticals aren’t quite perpendicular. you can try to avoid this problem by not taking photographs while drunk but it’s much more fun to use photoshop to fix things up later. this tip also works for teetotallers who just cannae get their perpendiculars perpendicular either. 1. first find an afflicted image. here’s one...
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using 'categories' with blogger
last week one of the students, who had previously used wordpress, asked me if blogger ‘did categories’ because [s]he wanted to file their posts under categories reflecting which college project they referred to. ‘no…’ i replied with the robust confidence of someone talking out of his nether regions ‘… blogger disnae support categories. the best you can...
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set up tracking for your blog
in ten… oh, alright then… ‘eleven’ simple steps. one of the lesser known goodies that you gain access to, when you sign up for a google account is google analytics - a service which lets you track visitors to your blog and view lots of interesting geeky detail about them, such as where in the world they surfed in from, what browser they used and the ego-bruising bottom...
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more on PDPs
as part of their coursework, students at our college are required to keep a PDP [personal development plan] - a studio diary in which they chart their progression through the course by way of discussing works in progress, referencing other works which influence them and - as part of the critical studies element of the course - writing a couple of reviews. in the past, this PDP has always had to be...
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first tweakage
inveterate tinkerer that i am, i wasnae able to leave the default template alone for long. although it’s the cleanest looking of the templates available, there were a few things about it which bugged me, so i made some initial adjustments. no doubt i’ll be returning to tinker at a later date. for now i’ve: moved the sidebar to the left - where it should be [IMHO] widened the...
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the traditionally tedious first post
in my capacity as most popular lecturer in the design & visual arts department of city college manchester, i am often asked to share my encyclopaedic knowledge with hordes of saucer-eyed students, who gaze at me in admiration and hang on my every syllable. this past two weeks i have been talking the students through the process of setting up blogs and showing them the mechanics of adding...