When you work with web development you’ll need to have a lot of debugging tools, code verification tools and other things, kind of like programming, just less advanced. You may also want to have tools that let you change CSS on the fly, check widths and sizes and so on. This is a list of what I use, I’ll keep this post updated with all tools I use, or find useful at times. Read on…

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Over the last years I’ve been making a lot of XTHML/CSS site implementations. Every design is different, but I’ve learned that over time I have a good starting point for the css styles and html. This goes especially for designs with a content box with shadows, and a body background, with the content box positioned in the center of the page. Take a look in my portfolio, many of the designs are like that.

So I want to share this “pleasant” start, with some explanations.

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I’ve had an aquarium for a bit over 2 years now and have always enjoyed taking pictures of the fish. Aquarium photography is challenging, because the pictures look a lot better with the light from the aquarium lighting, but that may not be sufficient depending on the shutter time. Fish also moves around quite a bit so the shutter time can’t be 5 seconds.

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As I’ve implemented this site I’ve realized Wordpress is a bit limited compared to what I’m used to, but I hope there’s some better solutions than I’m already using. I’ve basically figured out that it’s better to get it how I want it with some crappy hacks than nothing at all, so until I learn better ways, that’s the way I do it. These are hacks for left sidebar menu and top menu.

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When I started working in the company I currently work for, they used Macromedia Fireworks for setting up webpage designs. I thought it looked like a hassle, and had always used Adobe Photoshop for it. As I learned more and more of Fireworks, there was no way back to Photoshop. Photoshop has been for photos after this.

Fireworks (obviously Adobe Fireworks now) is quite simply a breeze to work with. Currently in version CS4 I thought I’d share the reasons as to why it’s so simple to set up something to work with, and change it later. Maybe someone still using Photoshop for setting up designs will see the light.

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I’ve been scratching my head for some time about the image upload problem. The error message I got was “Unable to create directory /wp-content/uploads/ Is its parent directory writable by the server?” I read a lot of solutions, everything from disabling PHP safemode (which was disabled) to setting .htaccess rights. What finally solved it for me was to set uploads and containing folders as CHMOD 777. Hope someone finds it useful.

As I was trying to change an option in “Settings | Reading” I got a 403 error. I was searching all over the Wordpress docs and forums until I finally found a link to the solution. Go to Hackosis to read it.

Update: The link is now not working and I can’t remember exactly how to fix this issue.

I’m writing this as a sort of reminder to myself. These are some handy Wordpress bits to solve things I need as I develop this site how I want it.

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As you read this I’ve just opened my site after many years of trying to define what it should be. Well, what it ended up being is a sort of worklog of everything I do.

I work as a webdesigner, so I will try to put solutions and interesting things here, sort of a log for myself when I forget how I solve things, and a place for discussion if someone stumbles over my site and see a solution, or have got a better one

WakeReactor is a fansite for the upcoming Remedy game, Alan Wake. Remedy is a finnish game developer that made Max Payne and Max Payne 2: The fall of Max Payne. Alan Wake will be a Twin Peaks style thriller. This site was also made with my friend Matt’s CMS, and a redesign is coming.

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A friend who works for the developer Frozenbyte asked me to translate Shadowgrounds Survivor to Norwegian for them, so I did. Basically it’s all the gametext, option text, install texts and subtitles. The game is a great oldschool shooter, seen from a birdview. You can buy the game and support great (but still fairly unknown) development houses like them, pop over to their page to see how.
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This is a fansite for the games Max Payne and Max Payne 2, and thus also for the movie that came out in 2008. I’ve run this page since 1999 in some shape. Currently it’s running with a CMS made by a good friend from England, Matt. I am currently redesigning it, and it’s tied closely to another of my pages, WakeReactor.

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Genialt is the name of my host. It started out as a project of a classmate of mine back in the schooldays, turned into a proper company, and nowadays it’s run by his brother. They needed a fresher page and look. So I made a logo, some businesscards and the website for them. They’ve hosted my pages for years, and I really recommend their services if you need a domain or webhotel.

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