Ninedays Blog

Getting too many 404 requests because you’ve deleted a post, or moved it/changed it’s name. Well there’s an easy way to make your Wordpress 404 page redirect to whatever page you need it to!

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My guide to evaluating your category structure. I got 27 categories down to 12 mainly to help users get the most out of the category structure and to help try to stop myself from over complicating my sorting systems.

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I’ve got a big overhaul in the makes coming up, though before I do that there’s a number of changes that need to happen around here!

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Writing text directly into images using PHP and the built in GD library is really easy, even using a custom TTF file for the font doesn’t complicate anything too bad!

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It’s hard being a D list blogger.

Always trying to develop better content to get those links in.

Me with only 1 links back in 180 days, it’s sad. Check to see your listing here: Are You an A-List Bloglebrity? Popularity: 16% [?]

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Using Scriptalicious’s fade effect with a simple JavaScript timer you can send a message to your visitor . A great an effective way to increase usability and provide useful feedback after your visitor has made some action. Oh…and it looks good!

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I’m not turning into a movie review blog, don’t worry, but I have to share this with you.

Not a spoiler review, promise!

It’s just past 1am. I just got back a bit ago from the 10:00pm screening of Steven King’s The Mist and to be perfectly honest, I am a little anxious about sleeping. [...]

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Ninedays Blog is looking at a moderate overhaul before the new year. There’s a number of things I really need to clean up around the site. I need to do a solid re-evaluation of all these Wordpress Plugins. I begin to think that so many of them are slowing the site down [...]

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Back in August I went on a B&H shopping spree and got myself a new tripod legs and ballhead.

This was kind-of a big deal for me I went from my since I went from my old $40 Walmart Tripod that I was ashamed to use in public to my new beautiful $200 Bogen/Manfrotto tripod legs [...]

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Are pogs back in style?

Photojojo seems to think so!

If you have no idea what a pog is, clearly you were not a 90’s kid. Pogs @ Wikipedia

I remember I used to be one of the cool kids that conned their parents into getting the make your own pog kit. Where you’d cut out [...]

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We’re always seeing it on DIY shows like Trading Spaces, Design on a Dime or anything on the DIY Network where these designers take something old and make it new for cheap.

Well it’s my turn! And that’s right folks you read it here first, for under $20!

Steps to Updating Your Old Lamps

Step 1: Start [...]

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Cool new feature on Flickr now is that places have pages! A great reason to start geo-tagging, or get a device that geo-tags for you such at the Sony GPS-CS1KA GPS Unit Kit.

Go to Flickr Places and search for where you want to go. Or you can read more about the new feature [...]

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I was excited when I stopped by Scott Kelby’s Blog this afternoon and saw that The Digital Photography Book, Volume 2 was available for pre-order on Amazon.

I really enjoyed his other book The Digital Photography Book. Though his humor is a bit tiresome in writing, the book still successfully communicated so many great [...]

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Got in a little more than a fender bender today :(

Missing a chunk of my back bumper cause I got hit.

Basically got a day off of work tho.

45 minutes on the side of rt128 15 minute ride from tow truck #1 1hr 20 minutes waiting for AAA (tow #2) 1hr and 30 minutes on an adventure from Wellesley [...]

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Track back your own blog…tacky? I think so. Lame…probably but I did it to establish relationships, no matter what y’all think about me!

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Went and did a quick shoot today with a couple of my friends today. They’re part of the Blackout Racing car club. All-in-all they <3 their Mustangs.

It was chillier than I had anticipated and now I know I am reminded to put “shopping for photo mittens” on my list of things to do [...]

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It’s really easy to make sure that a file downloads rather than load in a browser, here I walk you through making it happen with a .pdf file as well as a .jpg file.

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I’ve been seeing these reusable canvas grocery bags for a while now and I kind-of support the idea. Though the ones you can purchase at the store are ugly and quite hideous. When I hit the market I usually only end up with two or three bags of groceries since I am only shopping for [...]

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After reading the Strobist article about Home Depot (cheap) photography solutions I gave dying my own backdrop a shot. It’s not a 100% successful attempt but I learned a lot about what I should do next time.

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Time for some learnin’ & JavaScriptin’

One thing I had to do for a client a while back was create a JavaScript body mass index calculator.

She just wanted 2 fields:

Height (inches) Weight (pounds)

On that same page she also had a table displaying the translation of BMI calculations from the CDC Website.

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Our topic today: JavaScript pop-up windows.

I have a quick and dirty method I usually use to create JavaScript pop-up windows. I use it because it allows the user to still access the page if they have JavaScript turned off and it centers the window on the screen. The function accepts 3 parameters the URL, window [...]

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Got home Monday and ran to my front steps to grab my Chumby!!

I’ve been so distracted by it for all my hours at home that I had completely forgotten to blog about it. Silly me!

So I’m still working on my first widget for my Chumby, hoping to see that come to completion by the end of [...]

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So for Halloween I bought Revlon 18′ Hair Extensions from Sally’s, but since the hair was in a box and wrapped in a dark hairnet I accidentally bought a shade much lighter than I could really wear with my natural hair color.

So I improvised. I clipped the extensions across the top of my head, [...]

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Spent some quality font time today, specifically decay and scripts. I was looking on behalf of a project I might be picking up soon.

Since this project needs to be on the trendier, more media driven, side of design than the “corporate” content-driven I found that these fonts would probably be my most likely candidates [...]

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