Sempstress

Just for something completely different, I’ve been working on redoing the bathroom.  (Well, no, technically I did it because mom told me to.)  So what happens when your friendly neighborhood sempstress trades in her sewing machine and scissors for a paint brush and a miter saw?  Here’s what’s been keeping me away from the computer…. Read the rest of this entry »

So I just realized that I’m getting a whole mass of 404s (ie, the dreaded “File Not Found” error). I don’t know why that was a surprise, since I moved everything last August. I’ve added little redirect-y pagey-poos for the worst offenders. I guess I should have done that last August… Read the rest of this entry »

How totally cool is that? I’m using wp e-commerce, and in spite of all the problem reports, it seems to work just fine for my purposes (ye olde digital downloads). Well, at least, it seems to work just fine here. On my little test server (which is my mac, running Apache/mySQL through MAMP) it’s hopelessly cranky and will not produce download links for files purchased. Le sigh. Read the rest of this entry »

I really hate to do this on a “real” site, but I’m testing out some cart software at the moment. Don’t be alarmed by anything weird you might see (like empty product pages, etc)…. Sorry!

Well, ok, by “made” I really mean “found one I liked a lot and hacked at it to get the details right then changed the graphics”. But, however you want to say it, Sempstress running under Wordpress is starting to look a lot more like home…. :)

In other news, Read the rest of this entry »

It’s pretty again! Yay! I like pretty…..

My apologies to anyone who was trying to read anything while I was bouncing through themes. That was probably ugly.

I just upgraded my wordpress install, and reverted to the most standard of standard themes. I’m hoping this will fix the issues people have mentioned about browser problems, etc. Please expect to see a new theme in the next couple of days – I miss my tagcloud and image frames already!

All of the old Millinery articles are back online. (My super-cool html-to-WordPress script didn’t work as well as I thought, and only a third of the millinery stuff imported properly.) You can find them through the tag cloud, under Millinery or Hat Making. I’m going to try to get Ye Olde Dial-a-Dress up and running next.

I wanted to add Digg links to all the pages in specific categories.  Smashing Magazine had a trick for adding Digg links based on custom fields, which is great if you are the person who can remember to add the custom fields.  I’m not.  Here’s a modified code snippet that you can add to your single.php file, to produce a Digg button on all pages in a list of categories:

<?php
   if (in_category( array('category1', 'category2', 'etc'))){
      echo '<script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js"
      type="text/javascript"></script>';
   }
?>

I’ve gotten most of the old pages that I felt were worth keeping imported into WordPress.  I dusted off my old PHP coding skills and wrote myself a little importer.   Unfortunately, I’m a little rusty, and some of the pages I wanted to convert just didn’t quite come out right.  I’ll be adding those as I get them converted by hand.  

I’m still working on the look and feel of the main page, trying to put the gallery back together, and a few other details.

In the mean time, please enjoy the search button and general blog-a-licious goodness!