Wordpress - Using the automatic upgrade feature

When I logged into the blog this morning I noticed a new version of Wordpress was available. After reading about the changes, I thought I should upgrade. I created a video (screencast) of the upgrade process. It really is a simple process, however if you have a minute or so to spare you can [...]

Building your Photo Website with Wordpress- Themes

In he previous post in this series we successfully updated to the latest version of Wordpress. Next you can easily change the look of your site using Wordpress themes. Themes provide the overall “look” of the site. Themes allow the content to remain separate from the design of the site. The theme contains all the [...]

Quick Friday Update

I didn’t post yesterday because I got a little busy. My Powerbook took a dive, literally, and I was trying to revive it to no avail. I will have to replace it. I have lots of other “real” work to get finished but I will be posting some new stuff soon. I’m working on [...]

Photo Post : From The Archive - Crain’s Chicago Business Ads

Crain’s Chicago Business


As I was looking through my archives I came across this series of images I did for Crain’s Chicago Business . They were done in 2004 and I have never shown them in my portfolio, even though [...]

Building your Photo Website with Wordpress - Upgrading Wordpress

Last time I promised we’d get into themes. but first I wanted to get something out of the way. As of this writing, my host was using Wordpress 2.3.3 however I’m currently using 2.5 on my portfolio site. One downside to my web host, is the fact that they don’t seem to provide timely updates. [...]

Quick Tips - Photoshop Actions : Name your layers

This is the first of what I’m calling “Quick Tips” (not very original I know). Sometimes a small step can make bigger tasks much easier.
So here’s the first… I like to use actions whenever I can it saves a lot of time, even when doing basic tasks. The easiest way to create actions is by [...]

Building your Photo Website with Wordpress - Getting Started

So you have a domain name, and a web hosting provider. What’s next? Most providers will make it easy to install and activate your blog. I have created a tutorial site called “Joseph A. Photographer”, so you can follow along as I create a new site. First I’ll show the basic steps to getting [...]

Building your Photo Website with Wordpress - Intro

In the past few weeks I’ve discovered a great new tool for building my photography business’s website. My original purpose was to start this blog, but I soon found out the tools available to bloggers can do a lot more than I expected. As I was working on adding portfolio pages to this blog, I [...]

Golden Gate Bridge - Photo Post

This is a “Photo Post” as opposed to a photo of the day feature. I will try to post a photo at least once a week, and provide a few details on how it was made. I will answer any questions you have in the comments section. If there is a lot of interest, I [...]

Adobe Photoshop CS4 64-bit - Windows only?

Here’s a headline that will spark a bit of controversy. The next version of Adobe’s PhotoShop, CS4 will be 64-bit in Windows and remain at 32-bit in Mac OS X. Jack Nack from Abobe made this announcement on his blog:
In the interest of giving customers guidance as early as possible, we have some news to [...]