Archive for March, 2007

Changing WordPress Themes

March 31st 2007 Posted to Site Development

The WordPress default theme looks nice but it might not project the right image for your blog. If this is the case, you’ll be happy to know that the folks at WordPress have made changing your blog’s appearance as easy as changing your socks.

It’s a fairly well documented process but here’s a quick rundown: …
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Introduction to WordPress

March 30th 2007 Posted to Site Development

This blog was created with the free blogging tool WordPress and since this is my first time using a content management system of any type, I thought I’d note my first impressions with the hope of encouraging others to follow along.

So far I’m quite impressed with WordPress’s sheer number of options, overall power and most importantly, its ease of use. Installation was a snap since my web host has something called Fantastico Auto-Installs which makes installing applications like WordPress as easy as …
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Web Hosting Recommendation

March 26th 2007 Posted to Site Development

Pixelwit.com resides on a BlueHost server and they do a good job hosting it. If you’re looking for a reliable and affordable hosting company BlueHost has a solution for you.

Here are a few banners showing their latest offerings:

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ActionScript Code Highlighting in WordPress

March 19th 2007 Posted to Flash

I wonder what ActionScript looks like:

//
//
import flash.display.*;
import flash.geom.Matrix;
//
//
lineStyle(1);
lineTo(200, 0);
lineTo(200, 200);
lineTo(0, 200);
lineTo(0, 0);
//
//
function createClipGrid(name, depth, rows, cols, bmp){
    var clp = this.createEmptyMovieClip(name, depth);
    var wi = bmp.width;
    var hi = bmp.height;
    var cellWi = wi/cols;
    var cellHi = hi/rows;
    var lastX = 0;
    var lastY = 0;
    var cWi = 0;
    var goalX = 0;
    var cHi = 0;
    var goalY = 0;
    var count = 0;
    clp.allCells = [];
    for(var i=0; i<cols ; i++){
        goalX = Math.round((i+1)*cellWi);
        cWi = goalX - lastX;
        for(var j=0; j<rows; j++){
            count++;
            goalY = Math.round((j+1)*cellHi);
            cHi = goalY - lastY;
            var trans = new Matrix();
            trans.translate(-lastX, -lastY);
            var cell = clp.createEmptyMovieClip("Cell"+i+"_"+j, count);
            clp.allCells.push(cell);
            cell.bmp = new BitmapData(cWi, cHi, bmp.transparent);
            cell.attachBitmap(cell.bmp, 10, "never");
            cell.bmp.draw(bmp, trans);
            cell._x = lastX;
            cell._y = lastY;
            lastY = goalY%hi;
        }
        lastX = goalX%wi;
    }
    return clp;
}
//
//
function drawLine (){
    lineTo(_xmouse, _ymouse);
}
onMouseDown = function(){
    lineStyle(4, Math.random()*0xFFFFFF);
    moveTo(_xmouse, _ymouse);
    onMouseMove = drawLine;
}
onMouseUp = function(){
    onMouseMove = null;
}
//
//
onKeyDown = function(){
    var myBmp = new BitmapData(200, 200, false, 0xFFFFFF);
    myBmp.draw(_root);
    createClipGrid("CG", 20, 5, 8, myBmp);
    //CG._x = CG._y = 200;
    for(var k in CG.allCells){
        var c = CG.allCells[k];
        c.xd = Math.random()*6-3;
        c.yd = Math.random()*6-3;
        c.onEnterFrame = tumble;
    }
}
Key.addListener(this);
function tumble(){
    with(this){
        _x += xd;
        _y += yd;
        _yscale -= Math.random()*5;
        _xscale -= Math.random()*5;
        if(_xscale<0 || _yscale<0)removeMovieClip();
    }
}
//
//

That’s not too shabby.

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Hello There

March 15th 2007 Posted to General

Welcome to my blog.

Feel free to leave a comment and share your opinion.

-PiXELWiT

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