A photographer friend is also donating a photoshoot to the auction, and his internet went down, so I helped him by spiffying up his website. If you remember, it’s the one I did for him using my blogger techniques. Check it out, and let me know if you have any feedback. Also, if you’re in the Atlanta area, and you need a photographer for wedding, childrens, or portrait photography, check him out and let him know Dot sent you!

Last night I went to a meetup for readers of Ask Moxie… Moxie was in Atlanta and we all had a fun dinner at The Flying Biscuit. Was much fun — Any Dabbled readers in atlanta who want to do a Dabbled meetup? Though next time I don’t think I’m bringing The Boy… he acted up all evening, sigh.

Today is the Auction, then off to camping for the weekend with friends Sat morning. And are we packed? No. Have I bought all the supplies? No. Hmm, to-do list keeps getting longer… and I haven’t even started on Halloween!

Also, you may have noticed I just put up Blogher ads on the right side. I’ve been avoiding any ad content, but I figured I’d try it out and see whether it was worthwhile. Let me know if you have any feedback on that.

Let’s see, how about some cool links:

Via Hostess with the Mostess: Cool recycled glass robots!
and Really Cool Halloween Cake Pops from Bakerella

Website Design Posts

Several people requested details on how to create the art (or photography) portfolio site using blogger so here is some info:

Examples:  (updated 3/2010)
-Old art portfolio site: Here
-A friend’s photography portfolio site: Grieg Wehr Photography (this is a WordPress site now)

The previous blogger portfolio site: http://griegwehr.blogspot.com/

Basically all your data is in blog posts, but you link to them as you’d like, not in the typical blog daily format.

1) Create a new blogger site.
2) Find a template that you like the feel of – from a columns perspective – don’t worry about the colors or graphics, you can easily change those. (I used one that’s linked from the bottom of the dorsner.dabbled.com page.
3) Under Settings/Formatting, change the ‘show title’ to No & change “Show” to 1 post on the main page.
4) Under comments, change comments to Hide
5) Now you’re going to mess with the HTML – Save a copy first (as it suggests when you go the to layout/Edit HTML page.
6) You can change the colors either on the Layout/Fonts and Colors page, or by directly editing the top of the HTML. If you don’t know the numbers google for ‘html color codes’.
7) You want to remove all the stuff that makes an entry look like a blog post – (via bloganol you can do that by adding “display:none;” to any of those things you don’t want to display: here’s more info..
http://bloganol.blogspot.com/2008/06/easiest-way-to-remove-blog-post-date.html
http://bloganol.blogspot.com/2008/06/remove-subscribe-to-posts-atom-in.html
8) past that, you’re basically looking at adding page elements with menus and such to access the pages you want.
9) All your content goes in blog posts, and the post you want to show up on the front screen you want to post-date to like 2010 so it is always first. the rest of the content you create as blog posts, and just link it where you want it to go. For example, the Contact Me page was just created as a Contact me post, and i just linked the menu button to the URL for that particular page.
10) I used Flash Slideshow Maker Professional (available free for download) to make the slideshow on the first page.

I’m sure i’m forgetting things, but these are the basics. let me know if you have questions… and if you’re really nice, i’ll just give you a copy of my template.

hope that helps!

Also useful: Blogger for Dummies site