Working on a new site for work, will take reviews if you have them. This site is only running right now in FF or chrome, so don’t report IE errors, I know they are there.

As you can see I’m taking a pretty big departure from http://www.youraddressmagazine.com with this, and I’m moving from drupal to wordpress. While drupal is sort of nice, I found it to be too unfinished for anyone besides me to use. I tried to train a couple people on it and it just wasn’t working. Wordpress is simple, I can get a site up and running in ten minutes, have it skinned in a day and there is practically no training required. Unlike the other tips and techniques you have to teach to work drupal’s system I’m hoping to just drop people in and let them run with it. 

That was the original point of the site, to be updated by more than just me so maybe I can take webmaster out of my title after this . 

Known issues : - IE (stated above) - Navigation is terrible (the hierarchy makes no sense) - the calendar is broke

Thanks!

Link : http://new.tylerjameslee.com/wp/

Due to recommendations from Supersloth and Nate Mcguire I have done some more updates. The backgrounds now rotate with time. Normally I think thats really corny but it didn’t take me too long so I am happy with it for now. Also, you wide screen individuals shall now be enjoying a better view. If you are using anything over 1900 px wide then you can go ahead and screw yourselves. Quick Javascript on how I got the background to rotate :
function getCSS()
{
datetoday = new Date();
timenow=datetoday.getTime();
datetoday.setTime(timenow);
thehour = datetoday.getHours();
if (thehour > 20)
display = "http://www.tylerjameslee.com/wp-content/themes/qwilm-03/style.css";
else if (thehour > 17)
display = "http://www.tylerjameslee.com/wp-content/themes/qwilm-03/style_fire.css";
else if (thehour > 14)
display = "http://www.tylerjameslee.com/wp-content/themes/qwilm-03/style_early.css";
else if (thehour > 11)
display = "http://www.tylerjameslee.com/wp-content/themes/qwilm-03/style_blue.css";
else if (thehour > 7)
display = "http://www.tylerjameslee.com/wp-content/themes/qwilm-03/style_dawn.css";
else if (thehour > 4)
display = "http://www.tylerjameslee.com/wp-content/themes/qwilm-03/style_dawn.css";
else if (thehour > 1)
display = "http://www.tylerjameslee.com/wp-content/themes/qwilm-03/style_deepnight.css";
else
display = "http://www.tylerjameslee.com/wp-content/themes/qwilm-03/style.css";

var css = '<'; css+='link rel="stylesheet" href=' + display + ' \/'; css+='>';

document.write(css);
// End -->
}
 
then do a getCSS() to call the function.

I am almost 100% sure I copied this from another website a long time ago, but it was sitting in my ’saved javascripts for a rainy day’ folder and I have no idea where it came from. So , its not my code, but I can’t give any props out. I mean its nothing hard, just saying.

I thought about doing it to just change out the images themselves, but changing out stylesheets will allow me some more freedom if I want to do something different depending on time of the day also.

WOO HOO A NEW THEME. I had some free time today so I threw this together. It’s probably not complete but it works for the most part. Let me know what you think.

That theme I built for UT Austin just got rejected by the University Office of Trademark & LIcensing. Honestly, I think a big deal was just not understanding exactly what the software (Free, open source) or the purpose (being a fan) was. It isn’t intended to make money so I thought it had a chance of getting through. I was referenced to stardock.com (the makers of windows blinds) because apparently has a deal with them to make desktop themes. Not the same thing. A free tiny download on an open source browser as opposed to a packaged software requiring purchase and purchase of the additional theme.

Anyways, the theme was up to 700 total downloads and 400 daily users which is a ridiculous number for being in the sandbox at mozilla, the other sandbox items have like 10 , 15 total downloads.

So, before I bury it, does anyone know of any sort of fair-use something or other that allows for the recreation of the image if there is no profit from it? If not, then you will be able to find the theme on this site for the forseeable future but installation isn’t as easy so it will eventually die.

I woke up in the morning and heard the news anchor say the market was looking good due to some drop in oil… and come back from campus to screams and the gnashing of teeth all over msnbc.  Let me just say one thing… when I worked in the industry ( and by industry I mean my 3 month internship at A.G. Edwards) the market was doing fine. Since I left… well, not so much. Just an odd correlation. Maybe more than coincidence. 

What are you doing this Tuesday, September 29th? You probably should be out renting today’s new releases on DVD Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Ironman. Ironman should be arriving on my doorstep via Netflix hoo-rah. Who’s down for a lil Robert Downey Party (not the dui or drug part) ?

Also on the agenda. More work on orangecampus.com so I can finalize it and get it up for my project on Friday. Tell me what you think of the design.

I just checked my page rank for the first time in a while and I am a 3. If I remember correctly the last time I checked was about 2 weeks after my relaunch so I was a big fat zero. I’m pretty happy with that, not that I overanalyze my analytics or anything… I don’t really care that much right now, but just a simple SEO package for wordpress has seemed to get the word out a little bit better. 

Anyways, if you want to check out your own pr :

If you missed it … Boxers are absolutely insane. Guy got a case of road rash on his pinkie so he did what any normal individual would do….

He went home, put towels over the kitchen table and blocked off a working area with several two-by-fours. He put gauze around the area and twisted soldering wire around his right pinkie to slow the flow of blood.

“Then I put a wood chisel on it and dropped a 15-pound weight on the chisel,” Robles said. “The piece shot out about six feet like a missile.”

Also, in sports I would like to congratulate Nate for having his Yankees miss the playoffs for the first time in 14 years. Meanwhile Joe Torre’s Dodgers are actually IN. Wowsers. The Rangers only exceeded expectations… at least we weren’t last place.

At the behest of Joshua Rivera, I need to emphasize how important it is that you watch It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, one of the funniest off-the-wall comedies on TV.

This is what I want for Christmas. Markus does a look at a video he found made entirely with Canon’s new DSLR. That’s right, a still-camera… it is really sick looking. Who has 3 grand for me?

Pretty funny Ricky Gervais vs. Steve Carrell at the Emmy’s.

I just started watching the original Office on Netflix. Funny, but not Steve Carrell funny. That is all. The Ofice STARTS TONIGHT.

To get my theme approved by Mozilla I actually have to have approval from the UT System, pretty official approval with contact numbers etc… So if any of you kids know someone in ITS that could help me get that, it would be awesome, otherwise my theme returns to the sandbox where it will never get the same exposure.

(It is currently semi-out of experimental and has been picked up by other software sites like softpedia. So getting it fully going would be great)

Link to Theme can be found in sidebar > Firefox Themes

I think this is the final version of that poster I showed last week. 

http://capty99.deviantart.com/art/Tipping-Point-98320621

I have a break in my schedule and got some time to work on this Firefox University of Texas Theme. (For the download link see my sidebar)

But I need some more ideas for it.

So far all I have update is I have gotten rid of the slightly sac-religious Horns symbol turned sideways in the back button and replaced it with a regular logo which looks a lot better in my opinion.

Also I have added the coloring to the ’small’ icon layout, and the ‘flipped’ layout so some people who like to use firefox in different ways will be able to use this template.

I do need to do some testing on mac versions and linux so post in the comments if you would like to help me there. I will just send you a file that you drag into your add-ons folder and then tell me if it works or not.

OKAY, SO IDEAS AWAY.

Just remember, I’m keeping it clean and professional so it can be used in work or wherever, not blatant and out there like the FF 2 theme some people used.

The non-mac / linux users can try out .2 here : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/developers/details/8247

You won’t notice any difference beyond the logo change, but there are changes underneath.

I’m back as a Netflix user. I took a hiatus to focus that entertainment money on more important things like food and shelter, but as school is back in session my extra curriculars dwindle so I watch some more cinematic pieces.

I joined up again for a couple of reasons but none more important than the xbox’s coming integration. In the past few weeks I have been using play-on to watch hulu on my tv and it does drastically change the experience from watching on a computer. Thats why in my opinion when some of those podcasts we all watch (such as diggnation or the totally rad show) get into a platform where they are easier to stream to the TV, then they really will take off. Huge numbers of people online, and I watch it via my xbox, but even still when Internet enabled TV’s (or similar systems accomplishing the same thing) become more commonplace then those shows become more than just a web-geek world.

So, before that tangent what I was trying to say is that my xbox + netflix will become my first direct to box content service and its going to be interesting to see how it works.

One bone to pick with Netflix and it is a major annoyance on my part. How on God’s green earth do you still not support FF. I’m assuming it has nothing to do with tech specs and that there is some microsoft tie-in because honestly I have not opened Internet Explorer in months before yesterday so that I could watch my show via the netflix player. (Those 30 seconds from loading IE to getting to my movie start make me hate myself).

Someone please fix that. Or know a work around? maybe I just need an IE Tab extension for FF. See, writing these posts makes my brain work better.

I will be posting a couple technical (not so much) posts later , 1 on animated favicons and the other on building your own im-bot. Also hopefully a review of google chrome. If you don’t know what that is, please plug in the internet. Thanks.