Home Sweet Homemaker

The PDF has long been the preferred file format for providing a professional document online or as an attachment. PDFs are great because everyone can open them. There’s no worry about font selection or program origin. It doesn’t matter. That’s why it is called “Portable Document Format”. But if PDFs are supposed to be the [...]

The subject of email forwards came up at book club this week, reminding me of an interesting post I read recently on Lifehacker. “Email Etiquette Pages Explain So You Don’t Have To” references several websites that you can direct your email-loving friends to in attempt to end the forwarding frenzy. Here is an excerpt from [...]

Here is an album I made for my husband’s grandfather for Christmas 2007 using Shutterfly. It was fairly quick even for a perfectionist, and easy to do using their templates. Shutterfly allows users to post projects in personal galleries, which is a fun way to share albums with others as well as creative ideas. As [...]

I love code. I do, I really do. I get lost in it. I could read, write and experiment with code all day long… which is why I have been very slack in keeping up my blog lately. I cannot tell you how many hours (upon hours) I have spent lately reading articles about CSS [...]

I am very excited to be testing the latest version of WordPress. I have it installed on a subdomain. Major changes have been made to the dashboard. It’s cleaner and easier to use.  I think I’ll wait a while longer before I start using 2.5 with my main site. I at least need to check [...]

I am in the very early planning stages of a church website redesign and will be using my own site to play around with some features. I hope to discover some great plugins and applications I can use on both. Here is my first attempt at embedding a Google calendar. I only added a [...]

This image is a screenshot of the original theme my site is based on. I just thought it would be fun to show what I am working from. It is by Tim Hyde of Living Open Source. He says there is “something very gospel about the whole concept of open source”. Tim is a pastor [...]

I finally converted to Firefox a few days ago after years of knowing I should. After installing it and uninstalling several times over the last couple of years, I am happy to say that it is now my default browser. It’s just hard to give up what’s comfortable, even when you know it’s not best. [...]

The following is an excerpt from my original site. This was dated October 1, 2007.
I am so stubborn! A friend of mine suggested I use Wordpress to manage content on my site. I switched to a Linux server to support PHP and installed Wordpress. But have I used it? Of course not, because I am [...]