Improved Photo Gallery Skills

We quickly reached a point where our design software was not creating adequate photo galleries.  Most sites we will create will need to exhibit products or samples in an accessible gallery of photos.  If found some great free software that comes with excellent templates.  I learned how to edit the HTML templates  and .css styles to match an existing theme.  Less than 1 day to learn.

 

http://tartsandtruffles.net/gallery.htm

Why I feel the way I do.

I was never a hardline political ideologist.  I grew up in a house with a both a Democrat and a Republican, and I have voted both ways in presidential elections.  After the fall of the Soviet Union, I thought we were in an era of world peace and harmony that could be reflected in our foreign policy.  Unfortunately, as I learned on September 11, 2001 that I was wrong.  There are plenty of people abroad and at home that hate the United States.  Shortly thereafter, I watched a video of terrorist murderers cutting off the head of Nick Berg.  I will never be the same.

 

The United States is not an evil county.  We spread more hope, peace, democracy, freedom, liberty, and money throughout the world than all other nations combined.  Yet we are cast as the evil imperialist capitalist society that is to blame for all the world's problems.  I say enough is enough.  I love this county and the principles of it's foundation.  We may not be perfect, but we tend to right our course in time.

 

It is time for the America haters, at home and abroad, to take notice.  This is a great country that will fight to defend the principles of democracy and liberty.  There is no justification for terrorism.  There is no reasoning with someone willing to kill themselves to kill you and your children.  This is going to be a struggle to defeat the forces that are against us.  We cannot pretend or hope to survive by appeasing these interest.  Peace through strength, backed by a will for victory that cannot be matched.  That's what we need.  That's what Hitler got.  If you ever have any doubt about the character of our enemy, watch a beheading video once.  Then you will understand the evil we are up against.

ImageMaps with Hotspots

Here is an experiment I did with ImageMaps and Expression Web.  This technique could be great for more artistic websites where the user is encourage to explore the site to find links. 

 

http://home.earthlink.net/~kingedward32/test/1/test.master

 

Partial Birth Abortion Ban Upheld by a 5-4 majority

I am pleased that the Supreme Court has acknowledged that a woman's privacy right does not extend to killing a baby after it exits the birth canal. Cutting it up inside the mother is much better. I think the AP sums up everthing that needs to be said:

Ginsburg said the latest decision "tolerates, indeed applauds, federal intervention to ban nationwide a procedure found necessary and proper in certain cases by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists." She was joined by Justices Stephen Breyer, David Souter and John Paul Stevens.

The procedure at issue involves partially removing the fetus intact from a woman's uterus, then crushing or cutting its skull to complete the abortion. Abortion opponents say the law will not reduce the number of abortions performed because an alternate method - dismembering the fetus in the uterus - is available and, indeed, much more common.

Sunday Dream

This one includes an ellipse with a partial arc, rotation, color gradient fade, and a way point with parabolic sweeping.

Further Experimentation

Appeasement how long?

First Flash Animation

I am doing a little web programming and I am not sure how this will look on everyone's browser.   This is a link to a project created with about 1 hours worth of program use.

http://home.earthlink.net/~kingedward32/test/youngerweb_swf.htm

 

JavaScript

Here is a little html page with a JavaScript applet that was shared on the web.  I tinkered with the code a bit but mainly I like the picture.

 

http://home.earthlink.net/~kingedward32/test/scroller.html

 

Website Design

My wife and I recently completed a website for my aunts bakery in Northern Illinois. Check out http://www.tartsandtruffles.net That was so much fun, she decided to redo my granpas trucking company website (coming soon) http://www.tctransportation.biz

She is really enjoying the design and thinks she can market a niche service to small businesses. Once we get a few more under our belt, I think I will agree.

One thing we need is to drive up our search engine results.