collapsible page lists for wordpress

March 13th, 2009 - 9:21 AM

WordPress: Dynamic Sub-Page Navigation

This looked interesting, but I don’t know if I want to fiddle with adjustments for all of my themes every single time..

I’m still looking for a way to post just the page list by itself (so I can drop it into iWeb via a html snippet using iframe )

Lists, processes, organizing, thoughts

March 13th, 2009 - 9:09 AM

So I’ve been trying to clear out all this mental clutter that takes up a lot of my energy. I want to easily be able to share some of the processes and thoughts I’ve come up with over the years. The hardest part is showing how they have overlapped and evolved.

My website used to be the only place for this. I would handcode a page and not worry about things like formatting and layout. This was a VERY tedious way of doing things. I had the time back in early college. I don’t have that luxury now that I’m working all the time to eat and pay rent.

Then I used to post on livejournal. They were bought and sold so often I didn’t trust them, so I took the jump to wordpress. Which opened up all possibilities and all sorts of troubleshooting to get things the exact way I wanted them.

I’ve been trying to make the job of updating easier on myself, but it has gotten so complicated! A blog post gets lost so easily- so I’m trying to make pages now.

But I don’t have an easy way to post each new page on hmatt.com. I would rather have a page to point to or something, but I rather like the new collapsible sidebar I created. That I have to handcode though! = (

Now that some of my pages are updated in iWeb, I find it to be such a hassle to update and reload to my ftp (iWeb 09 does this, but their filestructure is SO strange and messes up the way things should look.

A lot of my pages are similar in nature. And although I could make one large page, I’m opting to link all similar pages together by hand. I set up my posts to do this automatically by using tags, but pages are supposed to be more finalized than the fleeting thoughts of a post.

Anyway, I gather there are very few people out there who find this interesting- but you never know! I know I’ve written these things time and again.. but there is the trouble of posts. I can’t remember when I said them or want to take the time to sift through it all to find and link back to this post.

I wish there was a single link for my pages… but until I find it it is all seen on any of my blog pages

hmatt.com/blog

Art Day 3

March 12th, 2009 - 1:50 AM

In a couple of weeks I’ll be attending art day 3. Hooray! Those have been a lot of fun.

This time we are going to have it in the morning, which I SO prefer. If it is later in the day people are always drained from the day.

We are going to have pancakes and such- and it will be so awesome!

Blog via email

March 12th, 2009 - 1:30 AM

Sometimes I put things off for a long time, and they are rather easy to set up.

: /

new menubar

March 10th, 2009 - 5:41 AM

Yesterday I figured out how to create a new menubar for my website. I don’t know how it looks on a PC though.. I’ll have to check that out soon.

http://hmatt.com

and oh, is it nice now that my hours have switched at work. Now I have an extra hour to do stuff before I’m tired from the day! Now I just have to figure out how to stop being so drowsy and falling asleep on the metro on the way home..

Inspiration

March 9th, 2009 - 7:28 AM

I like retro tv sets..

like the http://www.predicta.com/

Holidays

March 6th, 2009 - 10:05 AM

I’ve been trying to find an ical I can subscribe to or something, but everyone seems to have outdated times and dates and such.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Name_Pride_Day

Today is Middle Name Pride Day though!

= )

Once I find a reliable website I’ll post it up- for now all I have is:

http://www.holidays.net or http://www.holidayinsights.com or http://www.brownielocks.com/

and they sometimes differ.

http://icalshare.com/article.php?story=20031112085515216 is the closest- although I’ll have to double check all the time as the name week holidays are apparently all messed up.

national days

March 5th, 2009 - 7:22 PM

I’ve decided to try to celebrate as many strange days as possible.

Today is NAME TAG DAY

and recently was the anniversary of the death of Mr. Rogers..

I didn’t know he made a guest appearance on Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifav_Jnjn_M&feature=related
(the audio is off-sync though)

Lent

February 25th, 2009 - 12:00 AM

At bible study we ended up talking about Lent and what we would give up for forty days.

For a while now I’ve been buying those hostess pies.. not ACTUAL hostess, but the off-brand kind. Well anyway, they are terrible for you to eat (but oh so tempting) so I’m giving them up.

It may seem like a little thing, but it will be quite the challenge to avoid getting those (especially when they are on Manager’s Special and only 20-30 cents a piece.

Weekend of activity

February 22nd, 2009 - 4:00 PM

Wow. What a weekend.

On Friday Robin and I went to Panda Express and talked. They had the tastiest steamed vegetables!! It was crazy delicious. Then we had some tea and played Scrabble, and scored a Z (10pts) on a triple letter.. it was ridiculous. I totally lost that game.

Saturday – I woke up @ 8 and had to take a bus to Alhambra. I almost missed the bus entirely, but fortune shined on me and I made it! Woo!

We taped a few episodes and it was a total blast! I rediscovered how terrible I am at memorizing lines in a short amount of time.. I’ll have to devise a method to practice this.

Dan gave me a lift to the blue house, and I hung out there for an hour until the Mosaic film night began. We watched DARK KNIGHT. I really like the conversation after the work, we talked about the ideas and plot lines.. it was pretty neat to see how other people pick up on certain things.

We got to the PROM going away party at 11pm and danced for several hours. It was great.. but-

Where are all the group dances? I remember doing all sorts of group things in early college and such.. like the Macarena, the train, electric slide, & Thriller. We tried doing some of these, but a lot of people gave us the stink eye! = ( Boo on them!

I took lots of pictures and posted them on Facebook.. I LOVE how easy it is now to share pictures. I just wish there was a way for people to ‘un-tag’ themselves, but still leave who it is.. Sometimes people don’t like the way their picture turned out, but it is nice to have a list of who’s who in a particular shot.

Now I’m at work, waiting for the second half of my workday to begin.. at 7pm. Then I’ll have to metro it on home and the arduous workweek begins once-more, Curses!

If I wasn’t so tired I’d probably go get something to eat.. and if I wasn’t so hungry I’d probably nap! = ) Oh well, I really should try to write some more. The Talkie Day sketches got my mind-wheels turning.