Jillapalooza

IM IN UR OCEAN. EATIN UR CARDZ.

30 Days of Thanks – Day #18

I am thankful for open-source software. What is that, you ask? Basically it’s programs that people develop and distribute on the interwebs for free! Let me give you some examples of my favorites:

  1. WordPress
    Life without WordPress? No fucking thank you. It’s so awesome it deserves (and may very well get) its own post.
  2. GIMP
    Who needs PhotoShop? Not this girl. Turns out I’m quite proficient with graphics.
  3. Mp3tag
    Not only is Mp3tag a rockin’ tag editor, it’s the best software for mass mp3 file renaming, hands down.
  4. Calibre
    Question: How would I manage my ebooks without Calibre? Answer: I wouldn’t.
  5. WinSCP
    My favorite FTP client.
  6. FileZilla
    My second favorite FTP client.
  7. CCleaner
    Great for registry cleaning and managing start up programs.

I’m sure I use more, but these are my favorites offhand. Also, I make sure to donate a few bucks to the developers each year for all their hard work.

A list of those participating 30 Days of Thanks bloggers can be viewed below. Want in? Leave a comment and I’ll link to you.

Ashley
BRK
Jill (me!)
Kitty
Mary
Nick
Sara
Sarah
Susie

Makeover

jillapalooza.com got a makeover this weekend!! I coudn’t live without pink and/or stars any longer so here it is, Pink Stars 1.0!! I modified the header image to include the classic jillapalooza logo and I used The GIMP to make it fuzzy and give it a white shadow to match the stars. When I removed the default blog title/slogan that was in the theme it made my header skyline rocket to the top of the page, so I had to edit the margins in the style sheet, then change some of the code so it looked equally as good in IE as it did in Firefox.

Then I decided to upgrade my polls, Akismet spam filter and WPG2 plug-in which was a Bitch with a capital B. Now that the embedded page is a WordPress page and not an external .php page, it gave me all sorts of troubles. The gallery portion was all off centered and too large. I ended up copying my header/footer files into wpg2header/footer and that seemed to take care of the problem with centering. Then I cropped my header image and added a new style class so that my gallery started near the top of the page instead of half way down. It could look better, but who’s complaining? Still looks crappy in IE though, but who uses that anyway?

Here’s to semi-successful upgrades!! :D

Let me know what you think.

New Theme: Iceburgg

I had to scratch the itch to change my theme again, so here it is. The original theme is called Iceburgg (see footer for link). I made a few changes to bring it up to the jillapalooza.com standard that you’ve come to expect by adding tag fields, custom graphics, catchy tag lines, etc. I also had to fix the css because the double enter wasn’t creating the desired line spacing.

It’s got the sidebar on the bottom. I guess that would make it a bottombar. I like it… and I don’t. The clean look of having all that clutter out of the way is nice, but if you’re looking to navigate it’s kind of a pain. But there are only 5 posts per page, and most keyboards today come standard with page down buttons. Besides, I’m really only interested in what two people think of it. Me and Blog Reader Kristen. Who still doesn’t have her own blog. But I guess that’s why she’s called Blog Reader Kristen and not Blog Writer Kristen.

Any how, it’s got a fun wintery theme, which I made kind of Christmas-y. I’m not sure that I like the double header pictures, but if I keep this theme for any length of time I’ll probably create a fun jillapalooza.com logo (with the Gimp of course) to put at the very top, then delete the text heading underneath it.

Leave a comment and let me know what you think. :bobble:

By the way, how many more times do you think I’ll change my theme before Nick posts a blog again?

Home     About     Contact     Disclaimer