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Jim Atwood TV New Site

Jim Atwood — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:49:55 +0000

Recently I developed my JimAtwood.TV website and used a custom theme from Press75 called VodPod. The theme was a challenge to customize because the javascript was a bit finicky. Not all plugins work with this site and the FancyBox JQuery script doesn’t work with IE8. That is more of a problem with IE8 I feel, so it’s best to use any other browser such as Firefox 3.5 to view the site at it’s best. The theme is great and it was fun customizing it. You can check out the site at http://www.jimatwood.tv.

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Jquery Carousel Slides for Wordpress

Jim Atwood — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:56:24 +0000

I just “finally” finished up getting a JQuery Carousel Slide Feature up on Ricochehost. You can see it on the front bpage of Ricochehost.com at the bottom until I find a new home for it. It was a bit challenging to get the JQuery code working with this but I finally got it to show correctly on my Firefox and IE browsers. I also managed to get it integrating well with Wordpress posts so that I can feature them. The customization possibilities for this are unlimited and I’m looking forward to exploring this JQuery stuff further. In fact, I’ll have to create some custom pages to highlight these JQuery projects I’m getting involved in. Great fun although it’s still difficult to find stable working examples to draw from.

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New idTabs Box added to Ricochehost

Jim Atwood — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:44:08 +0000

Yesterday, I finished custom coding an idTabs Box to the Geometric Wootheme used here on Ricochehost.com. Now this is nothing new, but it was a bit tricky to figure out how to get in there. Probably the most trying task was getting the CSS right, but I think I got it. I now need to create some options in the admin area so that I can enter additional Social Sites and other info.

I also had some JQuery conflicts with MooTools when using Slimbox, but since I upgraded to Slimbox2, everything has been smooth sailing. Perhaps there is something better, but for now idTabs is pretty cool and the possibilities are endless. Today I created idTabs boxes for all the other sites deployed by Ricochehost.

The cool thing about the idTabs box setup is that each tab is can be a PHP file and you can really do some neat things by adding additional code. It will also be cool to tie that PHP code into the admin panel and have the options updated on the fly. I’m almost done with that. If you are into tabs, do give idTabs a look.

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Slimbox2 Plugin for Wordpress

Jim Atwood — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 07:55:41 +0000

The theme I use here on Ricochehost is called Geometric by WooThemes. One of the features tied to the Portfolio section was the use of a Wordpress called Slimbox. The version I installed originally was 1.3 that used MooTools v1.2dev according the JS file. While custom coding the idTabs sidebox on Ricochehost, I noticed that MooTools was causing idTabs to not work. Thus I had a conflict going on between MooTools and JQuery.

Well, after searching around the internet I discovered an variation of the Slimbox plugin called Slimbox2 that uses JQuery. However, there was no Wordpress plugin. However, after reading the notes on the download site, I found that you simply had to copy over the existing Slimbox files and have it point to the JQuery JS library. After getting Slimbox2 up and running on Wordpress 2.8 I discovered that “presto”, my idTabs box worked like a charm along with the Portfolio feature. Slimbox2 also has some customization features which I plan to check out as well to make the user experience more intuitive. Right now I’m missing a “close” button and need to add that on there. Stay tuned for additional info about the Slimbox2 for Wordpress.

Note that after copying my files over the original Slimbox and adjusting the JQuery path and plugin info, I was able to effectively have a plugin that I could transfer across multiple installations. Works well.

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Jim Atwood Photography T-Shirt Designs

Jim Atwood — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:59:32 +0000

I just finished up with adding some new Japan Photography T-Shirt designs to the store at http://store.jimatwood.net. I also completed most of the custom coding for the store. I’ll be adding a lot of new photo designs little by little so please check back often. Last month I ordered two shirts and I must say the quality of both the shirt and photograph are simply stunning. Great stuff!

JDA Iron Hot Japan Black

JDA Iron Hot Japan Black was taken by Jim Atwood, a popular photographer located in Tokyo and Nagano Japan. Visit Jim Atwood Photography for more photos and info.

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$31.30

JDA Urban Rust Graffiti White

JDA Urban Rust Graffiti White was taken by Jim Atwood, a popular photographer located in Tokyo and Nagano Japan. Visit Jim Atwood Photography for more photos and info.

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$26.50

JDA Kakigori Japan Light

JDA Kakigori Japan Light was taken by Jim Atwood, a popular photographer located in Tokyo and Nagano Japan. Visit Jim Atwood Photography for more photos and info.

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$26.50

JDA Champ Graffiti White

JDA Champ Graffiti White was taken by Jim Atwood, a popular photographer located in Tokyo and Nagano Japan. Visit Jim Atwood Photography for more photos and info.

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$26.50

JDA Japan Train Light

JDA Japan Train Light was taken by Jim Atwood, a popular photographer located in Tokyo and Nagano Japan. Visit Jim Atwood Photography for more photos and info.

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Ricoche.net Gyaru Japan Light

Ricoche.net Gyaru Japan Light is designed by Jim Atwood, a popular photographer located in Tokyo and Nagano Japan. Visit Jim Atwood Photography for more photos and info. Jim is also known as Ricoche the founder and admin of the popular J-Gal Community website Ricoche.net at http://www.ricoche.net.

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$26.50

JDA Fishing Japan Light

JDA Fishing Japan was taken by Jim Atwood, a popular photographer located in Tokyo and Nagano Japan. Visit Jim Atwood Photography for more photos and info.

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$26.50

JDA Tunnel Japan Light

JDA Tunnel Japan Light was taken by Jim Atwood, a popular photographer located in Tokyo and Nagano Japan. Visit Jim Atwood Photography for more photos and info.

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$26.50

JDA Champ Graffiti Black

JDA Champ Graffiti Black was taken by Jim Atwood, a popular photographer located in Tokyo and Nagano Japan. Visit Jim Atwood Photography for more photos and info.

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$31.30

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