Thomas Bosscher

My golf website - stymies.net

ThomasBosscher — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 07:54:00 -0700

Well, I have been working on another website called stymies.net. This will be my personal website for golf videos, jokes, pictures and anything to do with golf in gerneral. I am hoping this will become a fun golf portal for allmy friends online.

Stymies is still in its construction phase but I hope to have it complete and ready for release to the public an dmy friends before the golf season. The site doe shave some content on it already that is fun to view.

Add a Flickr Photo Album to your BlogEngine.Net

ThomasBosscher — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 04:29:00 -0700

OK, for my first venture outside of a theme for my blog I decided to add a photo gallery. Upon investigating some resources on the web I came across a great little Flash Tool called PictoBrowser. This flash tool works with your Flickr account and will load images to your web page with any media set you create on Flickr.

Listed on the left menu under pages you will see my photo album in action. You can also click here to goto the web page.

Here is how I created my photo album:

Create a Flickr account at http://www.flickr.com/ it is free and can also be associated with your yahoo.com account
Upload the photos you want to use on your web blog site
Create a "set" that will hold your images (this is what is called by the widget)
Goto http://www.db798.com/pictobrowser and select PictoBuilder
Enter your Flickr Screen name
Pick your picture set
Do not worry about the options
Copy the code to notepad
Add a new page to your web blog and call it Photos or whatever you want
Click on the insert/embed media icon (looks like a film strip)
Type= Flash
File= http://www.db768.com/pictobrowser.swf
Dimensions= 650x550 (this works best for the StableStart Theme)
Select the [advance tag]
Now go back to notepad where you copied your code from PictoBrowser website
Find the <embed></embed> tags
Under there you will see FlashVars="....." copy everything under the FlashVars attribute and in between the two quotes
Paste this code into the "Flashvars" textbox under the [advanced] tab of the insert/embed window
You can select a background color at this point and try some other options if you want
Select [insert]
[Save] you page

You should now have an embedded Flickr photo album for you Web Blog!

Anytime you want to update the photos on your album you simply log onto your Flickr.com account and add photos to the media set you created in step 3.

Have a great day

First Flash Website - www.bdrinc.com

ThomasBosscher — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:35:00 -0700

Well, I have just completed my first flash website for a company called BDR inc. They build custom homes here in Grand Rapids, MI that are quit amazing in design. Their website is located at http://www.bdrinc.com/

This was a first time adventure for me and Flash website design. I really like the way it turned out and am very happy with the design. If any of you are Flash Developers I would love to hear your comments.

Theme - StableStart (Black)

ThomasBosscher — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 07:01:00 -0700

Name: StableStart-Black
Author: Thomas A. Bosscher
Compatibility: BlogEngine.Net 1.3
Tested with: Firefox 2.0x - Netscape 9.0x - Opera 9.2x - IE 7.0x

Download: ThemeGrabber Page

StabelStart (Black) is the theme currently being used on this website. The default download includes every feature I could find from the dotnetblogengine wikki. Categories, Page List, Calendar, Search, Tag Cloud, Blog Roll, Authors, Month List, Recent Posts, Recent Comments and then a banner section I added myself to place images.

Header Images:
The header has four images which are acutally seperate image files called: image1.gif, image2.gif, image3.gif and image4.gif. To change these images, simply copy over a 80x100 pixel piture to the theme fodler with the same names of image(x).gif. This allows you to modify the header without having to change the entire image.

Remove Options:
If you would like to remove a feature from the blog like the authors list on the sidebar, you can simply open the site.master file in notepad and make any modifications where needed:

Example: ( I do not want to list the authors menu on the left)

Open the site.master file with notepad
Find the <div> for Authors
Add "" after the closing dim tags

Code before:

            <div id="authors">
                <h3>Authors</h3>
                <blog:AuthorList ID="AuthorList" runat="Server" />
            </div>

Code After:

By commenting out the code you leave the option to use this option later if you like.

I will continue to try and improve on this theme as I will be using it as my default for now. Any updates I will post to this website. If I modify anything else outside of the core files I will also try and document that process as well. Please post any comments you may have as I would love to hear what you think of my first them for BlogEngine.Net.

Have a great day!