My Chibi anatomy is coming along quite nicely! That said, I developed this one after I traced my hair from a photo in ArtRage2. I’m going to have it shaded and finished for around November when I’ll be longing for a winter feel as November gets very cold yet the falling of snow is still somewhat moot.

 

I’m not happy with the mouth just yet…..

I turned 22 today - my last birthday doesn’t feel quite as though it was something that happened 12 months ago…more like 6 or 7….

I got quite a few bits - a new phone (my old one just died) and a new t-shirt which really brings out my hair…

A few weeks before my Birthday I got a brand new Wacom Bamboo ‘One’ tablet. Not only is it small enough to carry just about anywhere in my bag, but at £39 for a professional must-have, it was deal of the century!

So this means I’ve been doodling more chibis for Sheezy. For those of you who don’t frequent my sheezy profile, I’ll stick stuff on here too - but please bear in mind that right now everything is a work in progress - so some anatomy occasionally doesn’t quite go together - although that’s kinda the point of chibis anyway, which makes them a good starting point.

This first one I’m not too happy with the arms and hands - Titled: ‘Job Seeker’s Depression’

I’ve been having a play about with plug ins - which just hasn’t worked very well at all….I think for now I’m going to stick with widgets - but from my experiment I’ve now learned a little more about plug ins and how they (don’t) work.

I started by trying to add a NextGEN gallery. It didn’t work. So I tried to add a different gallery - one which was going to be a little easier to load, and I came across this:

So I downloaded the Lazy-K gallery, and stuck the folder into the content folder:

I then put the content folder onto the server, as evidenced in this ftp log:

So I then went onto Wordpress expecting it to be there. Guess what?

It wasn’t there. I tried logging out and logging back in again, as it has been mentioned to be before that some plugins require you to log in and log out before they avail themselves, but this didn’t work either - unless of course it takes a day or so before it comes online…

So not rather happy with the gallery - and somewhat disillusioned by installing an entire plugin, I decided to do the next best thing, and try getting a half-baked plugin to work. So I tried to activate my google plugin, by getting the HTML code and access key from here:

Now I wasn’t completely sure as to where exactly in the CSS editor on Wordpress I needed to copy the HTML code to, as this was an example, I stuck the entire lot under the php code which already existed under the editor for the google map plugin.

And it worked. It was, however, in completely the wrong place however:

And it also decided to do exactly the same thing - becoming a header rather than it’s design as a left sidebar - on my admin panel as well:

Which is why the plugin doesn’t live here anymore, and I deactivated the code. I might fiddle about with the code later on - to me, at first glance I’d say that one of the tags has confused the height, but it isn’t that. It’s more likely that there is some means of setting the justification of a sidebar - if push comes to shove I’ll look into creating a new sidebar and sticking the HTML code into there - I will continue to play around with this later today - but this was a fun exercise just to prove that I can work with plugins, even if the plugins don’t quite work with me…

It’s been very, very stressful, and when everything is finished I’ll be solely concentrating on WordPress, (I know I’ve been promising for a long time now - but this time I actually mean it).

The degree show has been very stressful for me. I spent weeks editing, only to have the export go tits up; which require a lot of precision and attention to details. As I type I’m actually exporting a version which I think is going to work…

If it’s gone wrong, it’s gone wrong. At least I have a mobile phone sorted out after my phone just died. It’s lying in state on my bedside table, awaiting further autopsy.

I wish everybody else who’s entering in the Degree Festival the very best; It’s been so hard, but just keep telling yourself what you’re going to be doing afterwards, and that’ll make every little challenge seem that bit easier.

It’s still not uploaded, so I’m going to upload the site again.

I really hope it works this time around; because my trial for dreamweaver runs out in a few days.

So last week I found the blank canvas I’d been searching for, with the ‘mukka-mu’ theme. I decided to customize it by first opening dreamweaver, and finding all the imaging files in the theme folder, thusly:

Using the testbed logo as an example, I then changed the header image, in this case “r.jpeg”:

Original Theme Header
I then made one rather basic change as an example here; and I got rid of the pattern, and stuck on a background of my own:

I then went back to dreamweaver, clicked ‘r.jpeg’ and then put the file onto the server, and after a refresh, it appeared.

So I did the same with the background, and fiddled around with the logo a little more - eventually I got rid of the header and sub header text, so that for the sake of having the logo in prepaution I added the text later on to the header image, and this was the result:

QUIT LOOKING AT MY BLOG!!!!!!

 

GET YOUR OWN BROWSER!!!!!!!

The next part of my blog which I’m going to change are the borders. I figure that once I do that, I could pretty much edit the rest of the theme using a similar process of changing similar tags in the php editor on Word Press.

And guess what - I’m NOT going to write an entire blog telling you why. Instead, be patient and wait and see what I’ve been doing, as over the next few weeks I start adding some of my video projects to this blog, and spending much more time playing around with it. I might change the theme as well, but I’m not sure if I want to do that just yet….where’s the ’setup poll’ application on here….