Simple PHP Pagination Code
The Problem: You have a data set (array) and you want to paginate it. You know the page you are on, and how many results per-page you want to display. The Solution: This simple script has an input of those … Read more…
Footer Fun with PHP, Part 3: WordPress Posts
Our final addition to the PHP footer chronicles is adding some basic information about our most recent blog posts. We have written about Getting Blog Posts from WordPress before, but will toss up a slightly different method in this post. … Read more…
Footer Fun with PHP, Part 2: Flickr
Following our Twitter PHP blog post, we need to talk about Flickr. Flickr continues to be our choice of a photo sharing tool, mainly because their API support, and we appreciate some of their smart server-side handling of images. This … Read more…
Footer Fun with PHP, Part 1: Twitter
We recently rebuilt our footer and made sure to add some of our social outlets, like our blog posts, Twitter feed, and Flickr feed. This can sometimes cause a headache for a developer because there are so many choices on … Read more…
Fire and Ice: Studio Fun and Photo Retouching
We had our first photo meetup tonight, and because of all the varying weather going on (yea, its Michigan) it seemed like a fun idea to use some snow, and why not throw a little fire in there? Long story … Read more…
Getting a Whole-Word WordPress Summary
We just wanted to share a quick snippet that we use all the time to make custom WordPress summaries inside our PHP code. Sometimes the native WordPress “excerpt” doesn’t fit your needs, so creating it on the fly is a … Read more…
Rugged Photo Retouch: Video and Setup
This is a short photo retouch video sped up about 800%- packing about an hour of work into 5 minutes. It is a hard lighting setup with two back lights creating that arm and shoulder rim light, and then one … Read more…
Photo Jam Session: Backflip off a Wall
It was one of those days where I had an idea for a photo, knew exactly how I wanted it to look, and only had an hour to go out and take it. Luckily I came back with a set … Read more…
Photo Lighting: Lighting a Scultpure
It’s always fun to unwind a night with some photos. In this video I go through my thoughts on lighting a copper sculpture found in a corner of our office building/mall. I started with a fairly high shutter speed (1/160s) … Read more…
Photography for Websites: It’s a different ball game
Photography and web design have to get along, because we [as humans] have a tendency to consume and invest in good looking things, and photos on a website can be an insanely effective marketing/sales tool (Apple). However, just because you … Read more…