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Photoshoot Japan Site Update

Jim Atwood — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 12:37:26 +0000

Photoshoot Japan has a new look which I finished up a couple of days ago. Photoshoot Japan is another one of my Jim Atwood photography sites that provides information about my workshops and photoshoots in the Tokyo, Nagoya, Yokohama, and Nagano City areas.

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Jim Atwood Pro Japan New Site

Jim Atwood — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 12:29:00 +0000

This week I finished creating a new site called Jim Atwood Pro Japan. The site showcases some of my photography, videos, and other info about my experiences in Japan.

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Nikon DSLR Site sports a New Look

Jim Atwood — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:38:35 +0000

NikonDSLR.com has a new look. You can check it out at http://www.nikondslr.com. The site uses a custom theme from WooThemes that sports additional custom sections. This is an older theme so the tricky part was refining the backend so that it would load fast. I think it looks fresh and modern now. There are lots of cool JQuery features with this site as well. It was a lot of fun putting it together.

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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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Ricochehost New Look

Jim Atwood — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:21:45 +0000

Ricochehost is up and running with a clean new look. Over the years, Ricochehost has gone through a few theme changes and I think the new result today looks pretty good. I’ll be adding more content and information more this week along with a possible forum section again. I have quite a few vBulletin licenses I need to use. In addition, Ricochehost is running pretty much all of the Wordpress plugins listed on the front page. As always there are a few like “simple tags” that has yet to fully function with Wordpress 2.8, but that will change. Stay tuned for updates which I’ll either post here on add to the comments. Thanks!

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