using WordPress and Photocrati to build a web site
I thought I’d talk a bit about the infrastructure I used to build my web site. My blog has been self-hosted on WordPress for a number of years, and for this kind of web site, I really like that as a...
View ArticleThoughts on the new Smugmug and how this fits in to my universe. Or doesn’t.
Recently Smugmug unveiled their long-in-development revamp of the service (Trey has a good review of the changes and new capabilities). I took a look at what they did and I was pretty much blown away;...
View ArticleHow much we assume the existence of the net….
It’s amazing how integrated the internet has become in most of our lives, and how much we’ve come to assume it’s there. When you take a step back and think about how it’s changed things, it’s rather...
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Building Flash-free galleries for the new Smugmug
When Smugmug released their new design, I was impressed, and I decided it made sense to move my photos and portfolio galleries over to their system. On my site, this meant replacing my existing...
View ArticleLessons Learned with ‘For Your Consideration’
For the last three months I’ve been running a site called For Your Consideration, which is an experiment in curation of content. That’s long enough to give me enough data to evaluate it and decide on...
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A Cute Smugmug Hack on Embeddable Links
Here’s a quick little hack I found while doing some tweaking on the blog the other evening. It turns out the images used to embed the image in the blog is versioned. Take this image: Smugmug gives you...
View ArticleWhen you open up the hood…
You can always tell the people who don’t work on web sites on a day to day basis. They are the people that think that You can actually finish a web site, as opposed to ship it. Think that the content...
View ArticleI suddenly found myself in the middle of a site redesign…
It wasn’t in my plans, but without really realizing it, I found myself elbow deep in my site doing a bunch of redesign and working on a lot of the guts normal humans never see. This is all stuff that’s...
View ArticleBlog tools updates (a few quick geek notes)
I noticed that the WordPress folks released version 4.0 today. Before I upgrade the main site, I wanted to do some compatibility testing, so I spun up a quick test system, loaded it up, and than...
View ArticleSome back of the envelope calculations on web site costs
Okay, I promised myself I wouldn’t do this because I know I don’t have time for this project, and then I went and did it anyway, of course. So I’m putting it here as much for my ability to reference it...
View ArticlePlans for 2015
The Christmas/family obligations are done for the year and I’ve returned from Southern California alive and ready for a few days off before going back to work. With the holidays behind me, I’m hoping I...
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chuqui.com in 2014: Site in Review and Lessons Learned
The end of 2014 is a good time to take a step back, look at how the things you do have moved forward (or not), and decide what needs to be changed (if anything). I’ve already decided to redesign my...
View ArticleThe future of blogging is… blogging.
About a month ago (that’s forever in internet years) Marco posted the note Google and blogs: “Shit.” where the general thought was that his blog traffic was flat and starting to decline over the last...
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