Archive for the ‘Site News’ Category

Site News: The Junior Compositor has a new home!

Sunday, October 11th, 2009

Howdy guys, for the foreseeable future The Junior Compositor will be living at:

http://thejuniorcompositor.squarespace.com

I have imported all the old posts from this address and am in the process of transferring the old graphics and videos across.  You can find the old posts by going to the top of the page and clicking on “Old Posts”.

At the moment I am trialing using a basic account with Squarespace, which means I don’t have a unique URL.  If all goes well I will look at upgrading and hosting www.thejuniorcompositor.com at Squarespace.

Hopefully this will mean less disruptions on your end and a lot less frustration on my part.

Site News: Down time to try and fix Wordpress

Sunday, September 6th, 2009

Well, something has changed and I don’t know what it is.  The site template is out of wack and the pagination (being able to choose older pages) at the bottom of the site has completely disappeared.

To be honest, I am getting quite sick of Wordpress.  Yes it might be free, but it seems to have numerous bugs for even the most basic things you need to do.  I still can’t get the visual editor to do proper breaks between paragraphs without resorting to HTML hacks or doing in-depth edits of css stylesheets.  This should be able to be done in the control panel, not by coding.

In any event, I am too frustrated with it at the moment to battle trying to get a simple post up.

Site News: The Junior Compositor is going weekly

Thursday, August 27th, 2009

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Well guys, it looks as though I won’t be able to keep up the twice weekly update schedule.  Unfortunately, or fortunately depending on how you look at it, work is really starting to kick in and I only have a couple of nights of the week to myself for downtime.  When I started this blog, lo those many months ago, I had a lot more free time as I was “between projects” (ie, unemployed) so obviously I had time up my sleeve to do more posts.  At this point the Sunday updates are still ago as I have a bit of time to spend on getting materials together.

So stay tuned and if you have any suggestions for topics, hit me with an email and I will look at getting some info on it!

Cheers, big ears.

Tips: How to make a vidcast – Actually not really a tip

Sunday, August 2nd, 2009

This isn’t really a tip post but I don’t really know what other category to put it under. Basically this is a look at how I go about making the vidcasts for this site. It is by no means a step by step guide and is definitely the only way to do a vidcast. It just happens to be the way process that works for me given my equipment, skill level and desired outcome!

Mummy, how are vidcasts made?

Mummy, how are vidcasts made?

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