stephanie on September 8th, 2011

Monster Cookies

Ingredients:
6 eggs
3 cups brown sugar
2 cups granulated white sugar
1 Tbsp. vanilla extract
1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
3 cups creamy peanut butter
9 cups oatmeal (must be old fashioned rolled oats)
2 cups plain M & M's
2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
4 tsp. baking soda

Directions:
1. Cream eggs, butter, sugars, vanilla, and peanut butter.
2. In a separate bowl; mix oatmeal, M&Ms, chocolate chips, and baking soda.
3. Combine dry ingredients with creamed mixture and mix well.
4. Drop by large scoopfuls on to cookie sheet.
5. Bake at 350 degrees F for 12 minutes.

stephanie on September 7th, 2011

It's that time of the season for Crockpot cooking! This easy crockpot chicken breast recipe is made with Swiss cheese, cream of mushroom soups, stuffing mix, butter and cream of chicken soup.

Ingredients:
4 boneless chicken breast halves, without skin
4 slices Swiss cheese
1 can (10 1/2 ounce) condensed cream of chicken soup
1 can (10 1/2 ounce) condensed cream of mushroom soup
1 cup chicken broth
1/4 cup milk
1 bag Pepperidge Farm Sage and Onion Stuffing Mix
1/2 cup melted butter (you could use half this if you want)
salt and pepper to taste

Preparation:
Season chicken breasts with salt and pepper; place chicken breasts crock pot. Pour chicken broth over chicken breasts. Put one slice of Swiss cheese on each breast. Combine both cans of soup and milk. Cover chicken breasts with soup mixture. Sprinkle stuffing mix over all. Drizzle melted butter on top. Cook on low for 6-8 hours.

stephanie on September 6th, 2011

@font-face - How does it work?

Here is a super cool example:

With CSS3 support of the @font-face selector is easy to use.
1. Upload the font file you want to use to your server
2. Embed the font, using the following CSS:
@font-face {
font-family: yourFontName ;
src: url( /location/of/font/FontFileName.ttf ) format("truetype");
}

Then use it in your css like any other font style:
.yourFont { font-family: yourFontName , verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;

Here are the supported font formats: "truetype" (ttf), "opentype" (ttf,otf), "truetype-aat (ttf), "embedded-opentype" (eot) and "scalable-vector-graphic" (svg,svgz).

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stephanie on August 22nd, 2011

Why does WordPress render my quote marks as "smart quotes?" Then when you copy code from my blogs into a cms you have to change all the quotes back. Well here is a quick fix to not let WordPress make your quotes into "smart quotes."

Go to "Appearance" tab in WordPress. Then click on "Editor." Find your file function.php. At the end paste this line of code:

<?php
remove_filter('the_content', 'wptexturize');
?>

Click here for more information.

stephanie on July 15th, 2011

1.  Placed the GA tracking script after the opening of the <body>  tag, and before your tagged links, to ensure your tagged links load after the GA tracking script.

2. Add this script for you links <a href="http://www.example.com" onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview(’/links/homepage/example.html’);">

 

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stephanie on July 1st, 2011

Here are some simple directions how to update your web site for a mobile device using javaScript to detect and redirect your visitors.

  1. Create your a new subdirectory on your web server and call it m.yoursite.com
  2. Design your new mobile site
  3. Download this js file
  4. Add a link to the javaScript in the head of the your html website (not your mobile website):
    <script type="text/javascript" src="js/redirection_mobile.js"></script>
    (if you copy and paste from here please retype the quotes if necessary)
  5. Add this script after your <body> tag:
    <script>
    SA.redirection_mobile ({
    redirection_paramName:"mobile_redirect",
    mobile_prefix : "m",
    cookie_hours : "2"
    });
    </script>

    (if you copy and paste from here please retype the quotes if necessary)

If you want further details about this topic refer to the following links:

https://github.com/sebarmeli/JS-Redirection-Mobile-Site

http://blog.sebarmeli.com/2010/11/02/how-to-redirect-your-site-to-a-mobile-version-through-javascript/

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I just redesigned my site. I found a great article (Cookie cutter web sites) on Think Vitamin that had sampes of unique sites and navigation. One sample included the horizontal way, which inspired me to redesign my website. I added a cool jquery Nivo-slider portfolio. I realized I needed a tab jquery as well because I wanted categories for print, web, email and identity design. This created some z-index issues with all three javaScripts. Take a look at the final product!

 

 

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stephanie on June 20th, 2011

I recently updated my web site and added the Nivo Slider. It works great but I was having some trouble finding out where to set the transitions to 'fade' only. To do this you have to update the jquery.nivo..slider.pack.js file. At around line 67 find this

nivoSlider.defaults={effect:'random',slices:15,

change 'random' to 'fade'

 

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stephanie on June 28th, 2010

My Time Capsule died this week. I'm so disappointed with apple. Of course I didn't discover that there were overheating issues with the Time Capsule until it happened to me. The light went out on the Time Capsule and that's it...gone. We have our baby's photos and videos on there so it is devastating. I have googled the issue and found that you can possibly exchange it and get a new one but you will lose your data. I don't really want another one since Apple has not fixed the problem and they only last 12 months. Boo.

So I'm going to try taking out the hard drive to save the data. I found this website which was great but discouraging at the same time: timecapsuledead.org. They have instructions on how to open the Time Capsule and take out the hard drive.

I am now saving all my videos on Vimeo and all my photos on Mozy. It makes more sense to do it online and not purchase new software. So in the next couple of weeks I will let you know how the data retrieval works.

stephanie on April 27th, 2010

If you are using the News module you will notice that all of your title tags are the same. To customize this goto: Content → News in the admin panel and choose Detail Template. At the very top of the template add:
{assign var="pagetitle" value=$entry->title|escape}

This line will generate the smarty variable {$pagetitle} containing the title of the news article. To add the variable to your page template, open it and replace your title tag with the following:

{if isset($pagetitle) && !empty($pagetitle)}

{else}

{/if}

Thanks to iCMSinfo.com for this one.