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By inkdork, on January 18th, 2012 As you can see today, when you came to this site, you had to go through a click-through. This is because this site, as well as my personal site, are showing a virtual blackout for today and the 24th as well in protest of SOPA/PIPA.
If these pass, the internet will never be the same again. Freedom of expression will be severely censored, and practically anything could get your site blacklisted and blocked.
You don’t know much about SOPA/PIPA? Check out this page on Wikipedia, this infographic and this PDF file to learn the basics of why and how this will destroy our internet. Not only will it destroy our freedom to be creative, it will destroy and prevent jobs from forming, damaging our already struggling economy even more.
Please contact your representatives and tell them not to vote to pass SOPA/PIPA! SOPA is shelved for now, but PIPA is still very much alive and threatening.
It only takes a minute to do something. Click the second link above and add your name to the petition.
By inkdork, on October 21st, 2011 After much consideration, Kittyloaf Designs has moved to its own hosting. I’ve moved all of the important images with the site, but some of the photos from the blog are missing and I probably will not be replacing them. Its just too much work on a very minor part of the site.
That said, I think everything of importance is how it should be. If you find something missing in another section, please let me know!
By inkdork, on September 30th, 2011 I found better screenshots of some of my older web designs as well as found some that I never posted before. Just click the Web Design link under Topics and have a look. There’s 7 new designs added for you to admire.
I may also have some clean-up work to do on Tracy of Art Resurrected’s site as well, just working on a game plan for that.
By inkdork, on August 24th, 2011 I received my new laptop this afternoon and have everything transferred over and ready to go. Getting used to it, but should be back at work on the 30 Day Drawing Challenge soon. It has a 10-key, so the whole keyboard is smaller, which is causing a lot of typos. Give me a few days though and I’ll be used to it.
I’m also going to be delayed on working on my drawing because I’m going to be working on my inventory for the craft sale next month. I’m hoping to have at least 25 items besides jewelry by the date.
There also may be a death in the family soon. I was in the process of transferring my files to the new machine when the idiot puppy dropped an external hard drive onto the closed case of the old laptop, shattering half the screen. I was going to try to sell it, but now I’m trying to sell it for parts. Ugh. Not happy about that at all, but nothing I can do about it.
Anyway, if you’re interested in a Dell Inspiron 1545 that needs a new screen, check our my eBay auctions at the link in the navigation. At this point I’d be happy with $50.00. Thanks a lot, dog!
By inkdork, on August 18th, 2011 Since I am having so many issues with this laptop now, and my new one should be here by next Wednesday, and I just backed all my files up, I am going to put off working on the 30 day drawing challenge until I get everything set up on the new machine. Hopefully I will be ready to work again by Wednesday night. I’m definitely looking forward to it.
By inkdork, on August 18th, 2011 I went to Dell’s website today after deciding to replace it, and looked around. I have purchased three laptops form them over the years, two for myself, and one for my boyfriend, and overall they have been very good machines and Dell has excellent customer service and warranties. I settled on a refurbished Inspiron 15R, which better stats than the machine I have now, and at about the same price as what I paid for this one. It has a 2.53 GHz processor, 500 GB hard drive, 4 GB RAM, and of course Win 7 64-bit. I should be receiving it in about 6 days.
What am I going to do with this one? I’m listing it on eBay and hoping to get at least $50 out of it. Whatever I get for it will go towards paying the new one off, which either way will be done by the end of this year. So if you want a laptop for parts (case, screen, all outer parts are in excellent condition) check my eBay auctions in about a week. Starting bid will be between $25.00 and $50.00.
By inkdork, on July 30th, 2011 Tonight I spent a few hours working on redoing a good friend’s website. The previous site was done in frames, and several pages didn’t match the basic look of the site. Frames make it hard fr search engines to pick up a site, and the lack of smooth integration between different parts of the site made some areas seem a bit awkward.
Tonight I recreated her home page, then incorporated everything into the WordPress installation, editing the theme to match the homepage making the transition between pages as seamless as possible. There’s one last thing to fix on my end, then the rest is on her.
She’s thrilled to be able to edit the contents of everything except the front page herself now, and I’m thrilled to have been able to give her more control over her site and what’s in it.
The one thing left to fix has me stumped, but I posted in the forum over at Bytes For All asking for help. You have to make a donation of at least $5.00 now in order to post on the forum, but considering how much use I have gotten out of that creator’s theme, and how much help I have received in the forums, $5.00 is a very small price to pay. Hopefully we can have the last little problem fixed by tomorrow evening. 
After it’s fixed, I’ll post the link here and let you see my handiwork. Working on her site has made me want to tidy up my own a bit.
And the problem is FIXED! See the site here at http://artrez.com/.
By inkdork, on March 31st, 2011 I’ve been working to help a friend solve a problem with a WordPress theme he developed to match an existing website, and while the first half of his problem was very easy to solve once I realized what was causing it, the second half is proving difficult.
In short, this is the problem.
On all page views except the main page and the single posts pages, everything displays properly. On the main page and the single post pages, the footer is not displaying correctly- it appears that the CSS is rendering incorrectly, and looks as though one of the graphics is layering over the text instead of the other way around. This is making the text in the footer on those two pages unreadable.
Because this is a WordPress theme issue, its got my stumped because the call for the footer is the same on all pages, so shouldn’t the footer be displaying the same way on all the pages? I’ve examined the php files for all pages and calls, I’ve examined the source code for the rendered pages. I cannot find anything wrong beyond a few very minor mistakes which I have since corrected.
If anyone reading this could offer some insight to this problem we would be very grateful. I believe the problem to be something simple and overlooked but I’m currently out of ideas to be honest.
By inkdork, on March 28th, 2011 Whether you were ever aware of a problem or not, I had numerous issues while being hosted at GoDaddy.com. This site would be down and inaccessible almost every time I tried to access it or update it, and GoDaddy’s answer was “Well, we don’t see anything wrong with it.” After months of this, I decided t make the move to A Small Orange instead and host my sites there.
The initial move was slightly traumatic as I had a few mishaps and issues, but overall it wasn’t that bad. I closed down two hosting accounts with GoDaddy, and opened one with A Small Orange, setting up WordPress with a network option (the latest evolution of what used to be WordPress MU) and migrated my sites. In doing so, this has completely solved the issues I was previously having with the form mailer and GoDaddy’s hosting conflict.
As you can see, the Kittyloaf site is underneath the main site that houses my blog. I could have done it the other way around but this seemed most likely as my blog really is the focus of my online persona.
You can also see that in this rendition of the Kittyloaf site, I’ve gone with an extremely minimal approach to the look. I might change this later, but its not for sure. We’ll see how it grows on me or if it does at all.
I believe I have all of the pages and information sorted out here, and everything is ship-shape again. Have a look around and contact me about any services you may be interested in.
By inkdork, on March 15th, 2011
As a follow-up to the Shame on You GoDaddy post, with the help of another WordPress user, a very successful work around has been found for use with the Contact FOrm 7 and a few other of the forms that GoDaddy has essentially disabled on us. Emails sent through using this fix arrive on average within 3 minutes, and the work done after the email has been received in order to send a reply is very minimal. This fix is much smoother and faster then the previous one I posted in that post.
Here’s how it works.
Set up your form as usual. Don’t do anything special to it. The special part comes in the area where you format the way the email will look when you receive it.
From: [your-name] <*[your-email]*>
Subject: [your-subject]
See the added asterisks on either side of the sender’s email address but inside the brackets? That’s it. Just add those and save it.
When you receive an email form the form, you’ll have to remove the asterisks to reply successfully, but that’s it.
Hope this helps anyone who is struggling with this issue!
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