Tucson Digital Arts Community

First Post! w00t.

I implemented the new BuddyPress forum plugin tonight. It syncs a bbPress forum with WordPress MU so that you can have forum posts and discussion within groups.

Anyone can start a new topic, and it will make the discussion more useful I think (versus just putting it on the group wall).

nice work! still a bit counter-intuitive but i think we can fix it up to work smoothly.

just a test

What digital photography software do you use? Lightroom, Aperture, iPhoto, Picasa, PhotoMechanic?

Please tell us what software you use, and why you like it.

I prefer iPhoto for general photo management (the new face recognition feature is great) and have just begun using Lightroom for RAW photo processing and more advanced needs.

I am just really starting to get familiar with Photoshop believe it or not. – I have used Fireworks for many years (even when it was still MacroMedia) as that served best for web design. Lightroom is cool – but not effective for me as I do more video. Which leads me to the exploration of Photoshop (CS3 and 4) – Photoshop has some very powerful video tools that very few know about.

I use a combination of iPhoto (for organization) and Photoshop (for editing and tweaking), but I’m excited to try out Lightroom. My wife takes a lot more photographs than I do, and she is considering moving from Picasa (Windows) to Lightroom as well.

I tried a demo version of Apple’s Aperture, but found it to be a bit too complicated, and a touch slow (running on 2GB of RAM on a MacBook Pro). I think they’ve done some updates to it recently, but I’d have to have a good reason to go back.

Hi. I’m really new to wordpress and I’m developing my website/blog with this software. I have a question. How can I get rid of the outlines on my images?

Here is my site so far: it’s very new, not yet live.
http://kerrierobertson.com/Blog/

I’m using a free theme from the wordpress.org site.

That’s a style that is part of the theme you chose. To change it you should open up the “style.css” file in the theme folder and look for:

.wp-caption

You’ll see there are about 8 styles attached to it and you can modify them as you wish.

Thank you for the help.

I have a second question. Is it possible for me to create a page—I’ll call it Sketchbook.
Now, when I click on this page in my site, can it call up all posts that are categorized with the category “sketchbook?”

See for reference:
http://kerrierobertson.com/Blog/

I’d like to be able to add posts that include my sketches and for them all to fall under the Sketchbook tab. Or am I doing this wrong? Can I create multiple posts directly into the Sketchbook page?

From “The Refresh Manifesto:”

Let’s Gather Great Minds
Let’s Share All Of Our Knowledge
Let’s All Grow And Learn
Let’s Promote Local Talent
Let’s Be More Than We Think Can Be
Let’s Make Our Cities Better

From http://refreshingcities.org/:

“Refresh is a community of designers and developers working to refresh the creative, technical, and professional culture of New Media endeavors in their areas. Promoting design, technology, usability, and standards.”

So… what would we like to see in a Refresh Tucson?

Hi all,
I would like to add/remove form elements from a form using jQuery. I found this example: http://mohamedshaiful.googlepages.com/add_remove_form.htm but I am not sure how clean it is. Could anyone advise?
Thanks!

Hey Natalie — I’m not sure what you mean by “clean”, but if you mean “not buggy or poorly written”, I’d say the code snippet is safe to use notwithstanding a few cosmetic issues (like the onClick event handler should be lowercase, “onclick”).

When you’re implementing it, however, make sure that you load the page with a JavaScript debugger turned on (like Firebug for Firefox) just in case there are errors. And of course test in all your target browsers to make sure it works as intended.

If by clean you mean unobtrusive, then no… it’s not since it uses inline event calls rather the placing the event handler in an external JavaScript file–a task which jQuery makes very easy for you. For code examples see http://docs.jquery.com/Events/click.

Yes you are right by the second one about being unobtrusive. I didn’t think it was. I am trying to be good and do things the right way instead of the lazy way. The problem is that sometimes I don’t know what the “right” way is! I will take a look at these links. Thanks!