The WordPress NewsBox theme is a super customizable, fairly configurable WordPress Theme. Modeled after several news portals, NewsBox is designed to be light on style and heavy on features and customization. At the heart of NewsBox’s customization and configuration capabilities is the included config.php file. This file is full of helpful comments which painlessly guide you through setting up the theme’s colors and categories. There is no need to load any plugins or make changes to the themes files. NewsBox is able to high-lite author comments, display multiple groups of post listings (arranged by category), […]
April 10th, 2008
F5 Comic The Retired Animation Mentor Comic Strip
A few years ago I was lucky enough to be in the first graduating class of Animation Mentor. Before the school opened a bunch of animators and myself would hang out in the CG Talk message boards speculating on all things animation. During this time I started drawing this comic strip called F5 (named after the browser hot key we were all obsessively pushing when waiting for Animation Mentor to go live). After posting several of these comics to CG Talk the founder of the school and then Pixar animator Bobby Beck sent me a message. Mr. […]
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April 10th, 2008
Disneyland Jungle Cruise Sign Wallpapers
Ladies and gentlemen. May I have your attention please? Due to circumstances beyond our control…the Jungle Cruise WILL be operating for the rest of the evening…Thank you.
I love Walt Disney’s Jungle Cruise. In fact, being a Jungle Boat Captain has been on my “things to do” list since I was about 5 years old. While I haven’t quite got up the nerve to quit everything, move down to Southern California and try my hand as a Jungle Cruise Skipper, I do sometimes throw some Jungle Cruise tunes onto the old MP3 player and sketch or model things from […]
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September 13th, 2007
PHP Function: MySQL Row To Form
Need a quick way to edit mysql data with php? This php function takes the name of a mysql table as its input and then builds a unique form for each row in the specified table. The php function checks to length of each field’s data in order to determine if it belongs in a textarea or input field. A unique and valid html form is then built with a uniquely identified update button for each row. This php script does not process the updating it only handles getting mysql field data into editable forms quickly.
Download rowToForm.zip here.
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September 7th, 2007
PHP Function: Time Based Background
Just like the time changing backgrounds that appear when using themes on iGoogle this simple function dynamically inserts css into the head of any web page to change the background and/or background image of an html tag, class or id based on the time of the day. One function call gets the job done with configuration variables to control server time offset (so the time is set to your local time) and the name of the tag, class or id you wish to add the background to.There are currently 6 times phases supported: midnight, dawn, morning, afternoon, dusk and evening. […]
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August 18th, 2007
PHP Function: Keyword Extract
This is a great little php utility function is great for bloggers or for anyone looking to increase the keyword density on a site. The keyword extract function searches through a text string filtering out punctuation and common words to return a list of your most commonly used words. Links are then generated to search for these keyword possibilities on Google and to get keyword suggestions from Wordpot.
Download keyword_extract.zip