Kenny's Blog

MW3 on Xbox

admin — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 13:41:26 +0000

I’ve been playing the hell out of Modern Warfare 3 on the Xbox this winter. Being over 50 has made it hard to compete with all these young people and their quick reflexes. A lot of times they will see me way before I see them and then it’s to late. I still have a lot of fun playing and am really amazed at the technology that brings it all together. Most of the time I have to play with “randoms” which are teammates I don’t know and few ever say anything or even play the objective games the way they should be played. I did recently find a gaming community http://m-g-club.com Which is called Mature Gamers Club. So far they seem pretty tolerant of My suckyness.

I bought another domain!

admin — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 02:38:11 +0000

Well I bought me another domain but I don’t plan on developing it for a while. Maybe this winter? Since I’ve started a recipe page on my personal website it’s given me something to design and learn with.

So I’m going to make me a recipe blog and as of now I plan on using wordpress. Now there are hundreds of recipe sites and a lot of recipe blogs but I don’t care if I am one of the best out there. I know I could never compete with sites that have teams of professionals working 40 hours a week. It’s just another step towards becoming a true webmaster.

I’ll never be good enough to write my own php and Java scripts. That’s why I’ll use a wordpress blog. I can use some scripts and plug-in to make it easier. I’ll have to design my own theme using a basic wordpress theme. All this will take a while let alone having enough recipes to put on it. I figure i I can add a recipe or 2 each week I can get a lot of them soon enough.

One of the biggest things that slow me down is I have to make the recipes I’ll have on my pages. I want the pictures I use to be mine and original. I’ve noticed on some recipe pages they have used the same pic for different recipes.

To much to do and learn

admin — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 18:29:12 +0000

Since I haven’t been doing website design on a constant basis after a while I tend to forget a lot of what I’ve learned and done and have to go back a figure it all out again. That on top of learning things I’ve never done before sure makes a lot of work. I just downloaded an Ebook called “Learning PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript” by O’Reilly Media. This is pretty advanced for me but if I am able to learn the basics it would make me a better web designer. It will be a lot more work but could make for some better pages. I could just use wordpress with all the plug ins made by people that are good with this type of script code. But then again if I can do this stuff it would be mine.

Setting up a facebook like button

admin — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 19:51:21 +0000

They were right. It wasn’t to hard setting it up and getting it to work. Now getting it to work the way you want is a different story. It took a while for me to figure out how to configure the meta tags to have the correct links, pictures and descriptions on my mini feeds from the fan page. At first I didn’t know each page needed it’s own meta tags. Facebook’s instructions seem constructed to only set up 1 page so. except for your comment. your mini feed would always be the same. I guess it would of helped if I knew some of the lingo they used on the instructions.
All this also made me redo the structure of my pages. I was bringing the head section into all the pages with PHP so i had to redo it so they each had their own head sections.

Google Adsense

admin — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 19:52:01 +0000

I had a Google AdSense account approved today! Now I don’t plan on using it for a while. This might be a little more intensive to make a better page. I think people are so used to seeing adds on a website they come to expect it. Ever notice a page that doesn’t have adds? Don’t you think it looks a little plain in some cases. If I happen to get even a penny from google can I say I’m a professional web designer? LOL

Changing the recipe page to PHP

admin — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 23:07:45 +0000

OK, so if I’m going to have my recipe page on my regular pages I better figure out a way to make it easy for me. What I mean is if I’m going to have a bunch of recipes I don’t want to have a full page or every recipe. That would mean every time I want to change or add a link I’ll have to change it on every page. What I decided to do was to start building the pages with the PHP include(). That way I can bring in each part of the page and use that part on all the pages. So if I have one file for like the header, I can bring that file onto every page. Change that file and all the pages change.

Now I did this then realized I’m still gonna have to change links on the other pages like the home, gallery and media pages. Well I guess I’ll just have to build all them pages with php also so all the pages look the same.

Recipe page is winning

admin — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 16:11:02 +0000

I was thinking about using my WordPress blog for my recipe page. It is a real powerful program and can do a lot of things. It would be a lot easier than compiling it on a web page. The WordPress blog makes it a lot easier to put things like print buttons, comment threads on each page, categorizing pages and makes it a lot easier to load recipes with some of the great plug-ins it has. The only problem is, I do loose a little control. For now I’ve decided to do it on a webpage. I’ll just have to spend a lot of time setting up the structure and learn how to do a lot of things I haven’t done before. It won’t be the easy way but in the long run I think it will be better to learn how to do everything I want.

Adding Recipes

admin — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 14:04:11 +0000

OK, I’m seeing how well wordpress will be for making a recipe page. I’ll have to play with it for a while to see if I can live with the way it looks (which I currently like) and how well it will incorporate with my website. The second part I’m not sure about. Recipes will be on their own page in a menu on the right.

Deciding on a template

admin — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 15:59:20 +0000

There are so many templates for word press and they all do different things. I set up a few different ones but think I better find one I really like since it takes time to set each one up. This could take a long time to find one that will do everything I want and that looks [...]

Lost it all

admin — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 03:22:19 +0000

I made the mistake of using Fantastico to upgrade to the newest version of wordpress. I figured it would back it up if anything went wrong. Well it did a back up and something went wrong. I went to the back up files and they were fucking empty. Good thing I didn’t have anything that important. the bad thing is now I’m going to have to spend a lot of time setting this blog up again.