Recent content by dangermoose

Hi all, I wonder if anyone has had any issues cropping images correctly using the nextgen gallery plugin for wordpress. I've got a bunch of images, mostly with people but the thumbnails are being cropped terribly, generally cropping out heads and other important bits. I've tried cropping...

Out of interest, is the buy prints option part of the functionality of the Gallery or did you add custom code? ;-)

From what I can see the welcome to arras theme is a widget so have a look in the widgets section and see if there is anything there you can remove. Chances are once you drop you own widget in there it will remove their placeholder widget. That could be a permissions issue. If you have ftp...

Well said!

oh no, here we go... ;-) be prepared for a lot of opinions. I'll start by sitting on the fence, they are both great!

You don't generally get plugins as they are usually third party so cannot be distributed. They are however, very easy to download and install. The theme documentation will usually give you instructions. ;)

Nice site Nick & I like the way the client galleries work. Can I be so bold as to ask if you used plugins for the client area or was it hand coded? I am about to do something similar so just curious, I'm very familiar with WordPress but haven't yet done a site with ecommerce/client area. I'd...

Good point & very true. As far as I know a UK based business cannot store data outside the EU legally so this is a sticking issue with Mailchimp & other US based email marketing companies. However, I do know many businesses using US based companies like Mailchimp without problems but as I'm...

Mailchimp is excellent & free if you are sending to 500 people or less although there will be a mailchimp logo on each mailout. Worth a look.

I've been using 64 bit OS for years now and win7 64 is excellent. I dont know of any app that doesn't work but if you have something in mind that might be quite old (ie: old hardware you still use) its worth checking. Canon apps work fine.

Did the motherboard have a name or is it just the pc? Surely if you replace Julie's motherboard you need to give her a new name!

I've used them also, great service.

Looks good Darren. Not sure about the logo, its a tad fussy for my liking and not sure if the gritty style fits with the site & purpose. Also, the stark black and white doesn't quite work for me. I know a lot of people use this for sites of this nature but I think it can be softened a little...

WordPress is superb and as already pointed out can be a simple or complex as your requirements dictate. There are some excellent themes and you can fairly easily change the look and feel without too much effort, even if you don't know any code. Have a look here & here for 2 photographic style...

I think Dreamweaver will always get slated by developers but for for a lot of people (like designers and those of us that don't see php/asp/html etc as our first language) it can be helpful. I've been using it on and off for over 10 years (as a designer, not a coder) and my technical guys...