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Drupal Tip #1 – Importing and Clean URLs

I had the recent pleasure to try out DrupalGardens.com to create a site for my mom’s archery shop. First, DrupalGardens.com is great. You can easily create a fast Drupal website for free and then they allow you to export it to your own webhost if you like or keep it

To Keyword or not to keyword.

To keyword or not to keyword, that is the question. The answer to this looming question is “it depends.” Personally I don’t keyword because I don’t have the discipline, or have found a need to keyword. So why am I writing this if I don’t keyword, because I know why

How my Nikon D700 is customized to suit me.

I have not customized my camera that much, but the settings that I did change have really helped with my photography. Here is a list of the changes I have made in my camera. You can tell what changes you made in the custom settings menu because the is a

Raw Vs JPG

Good golly there’s a lot of stuff on the web talking about shooting Raw vs JPG. You have people that shoot either one exclusively, shoot both all the time, mix-and-match and people who just don’t care or don’t know. Finally you have people that understand what they want from the

Nikon D3100 Digital Field Guide Review

J Dennis Thomas _JDT0505 is a trusted voice on flickr answering questions that photographers have about using their cameras, as well as a darn good photographer. Nikon D3100 Field Guide, published by Wiley Publishing, Inc, and is his 11th book. At first I thought it was going to be another

Dear Nikon, Part 1

Dear Nikon, First of all I love my D700 and am very glad I invested in it. But with cameras , or anything for that mater, we have wishes. I would like to let you know of a few features that I would like to see in your cameras, all

To Face or Not to Face -Using Faces in Aperture 3

Quick answer, not to face. With my last major project, I decided to give faces a try. Trying faces with a large and real project I made some mistakes and also learned a bunch as well. Here here is the workflow I used on this project: Started a new library

You have got to love SmugMug.com

I have used SmugMug.com for a year and a half now. I must say I am completely satisfied with their products and support. I have sold over 900 photos to a hundred different people. I have not had one return or one complaint from any of my clients. Everyone has

The iPhone 4 Guts Wallpaper

I read a post on engadget that showed a cool idea for wallpaper for an android phone. I then decided I wanted to have wallpaper on my iPhone 4 that show the guts of the phone. I went to the ifixit.com web site and looked for a photo that would

New Preset Community

I just found a site that is just what the Aperture 3 and Lightroom community needs, other than bokehbrothers.com of course. Presetpond.com according to their about page: “Presetpond is a community for sharing, discovering and downloading presets for the popular photo editing software Aperture and Lightroom. Users are encouraged to