Great, but what do I do with this? I need to get it placed on the ‘Music’ page, but in such a way that it’s not in a post and not on the sidebar. How do I do this, WordPress?
The streaming code IS pretty cool, though.
Back in admin mode before bed. One of the most important aspects of the whole mpomy things is the music litstening group. It’s not all prog, but it is all good. It should be featured much more prominently on page one. Right now it’s just a tiny link off to the side. To give the links utmost prominence, they should reside on wordpress pages, but that’s like trying to reinvent the wheel. For now, they can sit on google pages, but with something more conspicuous on the wordpress homepage.
Tragedy just struck as I was preparing to praise last.FM. I’m sitting with the mac, which is really em’s computer, which only means less prog on iTunes. So I told last.FM to play a selection from my ‘neighbors‘ (other proggers), and VanDerGraf Generator ‘Man-Erg’ came up. Brilliant! Couldn’t have done any better with the progpod. And then I closed the page. Ouch! Still, a pretty impressive musical selection.
The reason that little tale of woe is in this admin post is that I need to use all that music in the listening group to start streaming music at the site. That would take it to another level…
I think we did another nice job. No credits this time (I’m too lazy), but a special thanks to all those Sarah’s out there, especially Sally (one of our favorite Sarah’s).
The more I looked, the more I realized that I needed a conservative and straightforward look to deal with this site’s architecture. I swapped the banner for a fractal I sound about five years ago – and then ded some really amature-ish effects to the corner so you could still see my page title. You still can’t see the title very well – and that’s on every wordpress page until I change/fix. Also, although I like the fractal, it doesn’t go with the colors and look of the rest of the template. For now, I don’t care. It’s more important to have a shape I can work with. If I’m feeling ambitious, I’ll see if I can learn enough php and/or css to simply change some colors. I’d also like the titles to be sans serif also. Bottom line, it’s not perfect, but it’ll do for now. The tinkering continues.
I’ll post again when it’s done uploading to YouTube. iMovie is so easy. I love it! It ended up being not that long, which is pretty cool. In the same way that the last movie was focused on Finn (Liam) for about half the clip, this one is focused on Em’s amazing battle with Ticketmaster to get Crowded House tickets. It’s an epic clash!
I’m trying to decide if this one or two movies. If it’s two, then the first one is pretty much done. iMovie is just that good.
The second movie (or second part) is a thrilling saga where Em documents her struggles with evil Ticketmaster the morning after her 36 hour chemo infusion. This all unfolds in realtime and it needs almost no editing.
As you’ll see in part one, we had a great visit from Sally. She took extra good care of us and we really loved having her.
Anyway, something should be posted before the weekend is out.
I can finally post on my own website!!
I can’t find a theme I like. I’m most likely to take the original/default now. That means no picture at the top. Let me see what I can do…
I think I’m getting a limited feel for this platform. I’m getting into a bit of a rhythm.
Another reason to celebrate WordPress is that it will work on safari whether its a pc or mac. That is brilliant!