The New Website
Earthman | September 3, 2009 | 10:00 pm

Welcome to the new website here at Earthman.ca – This will be the main portal site leading into a number of my personal and professional interests, including Web Consulting, Website Design, Social Media Consulting, 80s Music and Top 40 DJ’ing, Film Acting in Vancouver, and much more…

Currently I am testing Wordpress portal themes on this site, so it’s bound to look a bit wacky for a bit.

In the meantime, I have been focusing on my Wordpress and Website Consultant in BC website, and have just launched the new look at  http://web.earthman.ca – feedback is most welcome.

The Blog posts you see below are a compilation from my web design and consulting blog, my Facebook notes, and any other random information I feel like posting here.  I hope you find something of interest here…

Cheerio!
Terran (Earthman)

Nelson, BC Web Design Resources
Earthman | August 13, 2009 | 11:37 pm
I just posted a new section to my site, highlighting a whole bunch of web resources relating to my (adopted) hometown of Nelson, BC. Check it out ~ Nelson, BC : Website Design and Community Resources If you are a professional in the area and you would like your site listed here, please contact me.
Testers, start your engines…
Earthman | February 4, 2010 | 12:33 am

I’m very excited!

It looks like the merge is happening, mostly done, in fact…the merge I speak of is not some mystical alignment (well, depending on how you look at it..) instead i refer to the merging of Wordpress and wordpress MU (multi-user) – Now creating communities in your own website is that much closer, with wordpree mu and, um….you.

well don’t just take my word for it.  in her recent post, Testers, start your engines…, andrea at WPMU tutorials says:

The bulk of the merge has been done in WordPress core. At least with regards to moving over the files. Now the fun part begins: bug gardening, testing and tweaking.

Here’s what you can do to help not only the dev team and others, but also yourself:

- set up a local install of WPMU
- import some data, plugins & themes from your current setup
(in other words, create a working copy somewhere)

Well, on your mark, get set, GO!

…don’t have to tell me twice.  :)

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My new Youtube Channel!
Earthman | January 19, 2010 | 10:22 pm

Just posted my first video tutorial – “How to install Skype”:

Many more to come – Click “subscribe” on my Youtube channel below to Stay Tuned!

Earthman Website and Internet Consulting – Video Channel

Earthman Website and Internet Consulting video channel – Tutorials, tips, and tricks on how to navigate your favorite websites and internet applications…Check it out!



Eighties DJ for your 80’s Theme Parties
Earthman | December 27, 2009 | 1:20 pm

For a top-notch, intuitive and Super-Fun Wedding DJ and Eighties Disc Jockey, contact DJ Terrantino.   He will travel throughout B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan, the rest of Canada, the USA and Internationally.  DJ Terrantino ~ Eighties DJ Extraordinaire ~ will be the most high-energy, dynamic 80’s DJ / MC you have ever seen, complete with Party Contests for your guests, crazy 80’s costumes, Breakdancing, and more!!!!

Contact him through his page on Facebook:
Eighties DJ – Wedding 80’s / Theme Parties

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Posted by: Earthman Web & Media

Eighties DJ Links
Earthman | December 27, 2009 | 8:27 am

http://80smusicdjs.promobiledisco.com/number1s-1983.html

http://www.club80s.com/links/

http://english.partyboerse.net/playlist_80s.html

http://www.inthe80s.com/hireadj.shtml

http://www.beijingboyce.com/2008/10/29/name-that-tun-contest-be-an-eighties-dj-on-the-great-wall-while-sipping-tasmanian-vodka/

http://www.djbc.net/

http://www.live365.com/stations/lextasy

http://www.djcraig.net/the80s.html

http://www.barrymores.on.ca/index.htm

http://www.dance-ottawa.com/nightclub/barrymores-music-hall

http://www.the-peacock-bar.co.uk/press

http://www.djintelligence.com/pages/features.asp#booking

http://www.numbers.ca/

How to Keep WordPress Secure
Earthman | September 7, 2009 | 12:27 am

“A stitch in time saves nine. I couldn’t sew my way out of a bag, but it’s true advice for bloggers as well — a little bit of work on an upgrade now saves a lot of work fixing something later.

Right now there is a worm making its way around old, unpatched versions of WordPress….”

“…Upgrading is a known quantity of work, and one that the WordPress community has tried its darndest to make as easy as possible with one-click upgrades. Fixing a hacked blog, on the other hand, is quite hard. Upgrading is taking your vitamins; fixing a hack is open heart surgery. (This is true of cost, as well.)…”

Read entire article at: WordPress › Blog » How to Keep WordPress Secure.

Posted September 5, 2009 by Matt. Filed under Development, Security.

WordPress 2.8.4: Security Release
Earthman | August 13, 2009 | 1:26 pm

[ From the official Wordpress blog at http://wordpress.org/development/2009/08/2-8-4-security-release/ ]

WordPress 2.8.4: Security Release

Posted August 12, 2009 by Matt. Filed under Releases, Security.

Yesterday a vulnerability was discovered: a specially crafted URL could be requested that would allow an attacker to bypass a security check to verify a user requested a password reset. As a result, the first account without a key in the database (usually the admin account) would have its password reset and a new password would be emailed to the account owner. This doesn’t allow remote access, but it is very annoying.

We fixed this problem last night and have been testing the fixes and looking for other problems since then. Version 2.8.4 which fixes all known problems is now available for download and is highly recommended for all users of WordPress.

Plugins + Jquery
Earthman | March 30, 2009 | 3:22 am

Hi Fellow Wordpress Fans!

Here are some Wordpress plugins you will likely find useful…

My Page Order – Easy drag and drop ordering of your pages – Access under Pages > Page Order

Cleaner Gallery
– Makes it easy to integrate the Worpress built in photo gallery feature with Shadowbox (or other lightbox scripts) – or just simply removes the styles that wordpress injects natively, so you can use your own more easily

ShadowboxJS - Activates overlay lightbox-style effects for your Image links.  Also works with Iframes, HTML content, Videos, SWF, etc.  Super frikkin cool!  Check out what it can do at:http://mjijackson.com/shadowbox – The wordpress plugin install will give you immediate access to all the functionality.

WP-SIFR
– Change Page titles (h1,h2, etc) into Flash-Rendered Text, using the SIFR font of your choice (find em on google) – Degrades gracefully and doesn’t affect accessibility at all

CFORMSII
– get the latest version – Stop coding forms, auto-verification, Captcha support etc.  YEAH!

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Also, for front end Javascript fancy FX – Check out JQuery http://jquery.com/

There are frameworks (prototype, mootools) but I like Jquery so far – the syntax is easy, and there are lots of plugins around.  Downside, sometimes can get heavy on load times if you get too many plugins involved.

AND, Jquery is already bundled in Wordpress which makes the install easy as pie!

To activate and use the core in your Wordpress theme, just do the following:

In your theme’s functions.php file, include the following function call:

wp_enqueue_script(’jquery‘);

That will load the Jquery 1.2.6 base file in your wp_head, and put the script into your page’s head section automagically.

Then, copy the following into your template’s header.php file,  AFTER <?php wp_head(); ?> and after all your stylesheets and CSS:

<script type=”text/javascript”>

jQuery.noConflict(); // loads Jquery and makes sure it won’t conflict with other libraries
var $ = jQuery; // assigns $ to the Jquery object/library for ease of use and plugin file access

$(document).ready(function() { // this is jquery’s version of window.onload

//jquery ‘on page load’ code assignments go here

alert(’page loaded’); //sample of action to perform on page load

});

</script>

There, with the snippet above you will see that an alert pops up on page load, showing that Jquery is up and working.

Have fun!!!!
T