Photography and Wordpress, CSS, PHP, Photoshop and Dreamweaver Tutorials by Chase Adams

It’s been a LONG time since I last posted anything of value (anything at all, for that matter) and the time has come to open the flood gates.

First things first, I’m getting MARRIED this year! Hoorah for me! (and the lucky lady @jerickwald) This year will be a year of new experiences for me…and getting married will be the most impactful of all.

Last month I began the daunting task of creating a webApplication project in my free time, from scratch, to help web developers, designers, photographers & the likes collaborate on similar projects.

I have mulled over SO many names for the application itself…with no success. I’m starting to realize that the scope of my creativity lies just outside of coming up with catchy names.

This is where I need your help. You have the chance to win a $30 iTunes gift card just by coming up with a name. You have 3 ways to win.

Here’s how it works:

1. GOOGLE your idea first to make sure it won’t create any legal repercussions for me if it’s already taken.
2. If it isn’t, then comment here to let me know your idea OR e-mail me at chase@chaseadamsphotography.com with the name you come up with.
3. Include as many ideas as you’d like as long as they comply with #3.
4. Keep it RELEVANT to what the application does. Nothing having to do with daisies or puppies. This is a serious deal…so you’re welcome to send me silly names, but trust me, they won’t make it to the potential list.
5. Invite your friends to join in. If they win, there’s a little something in it for you too. Make sure they mention you recommended them so you can get the little something for you.
6. Invite your friends to VOTE for the BEST idea. Please don’t tell them to vote for your idea just because you liked it.
7. When you/your friends vote, you’re also entered to win a $15 iTunes gift card.
8. Comment on this post: “I want to win” or RT this to facebook or twitter, “Help @theeskimofriend come up with a web application name and win a $30 iTunes gift card! Please RT http://tinyurl.com/ydr8hsx

The more of these things you do, the better chance you have at winning ONE of the 3 iTunes gift cards up for grabs!

Simple right? I’m closing the contest to entriesON Feb. 15th, so be sure to get your ideas to me ASAP. I’ll post the potentials back here in a new post, and we’ll get people to vote.

Here are the highlights of what this webApplication does:

• Secure log-in to see the list of the clients & projects the user is working on
• Click the individual client or project from a list to see the in depth profile you’ve created to keep up with them
• Add & remove clients/projects
• Clock in/out to track the amount of time spent on each project
• Track the amount of money each client is paying you total, per project, per hour
• Invite the people you collaborate with to see their objectives in your projects, track the time they spend on their objectives, and give them the ability check off their completed sections.

That’s it! It sounds a lot more complicated than it actually is…really it’s just a simple webApplication with LOTS of functionality.

Thanks for everyone’s support, and good luck! (Who wouldn’t want “free”/legal music?)

First off, I don’t think capitalism is bad. I think capitalism done right is how countries are made great. (The U.S. has had a LONG run of greatness due to capitalism done by giving the customer great service and products) I believe that every system has problems and that the best possible system is the one with the least amount of problems.

Secondly, this will be my ONLY post on economics (hopefully). If you have anything worthwhile to add, please feel free to comment, but if it’s critical towards ME, contains profanity or useless banter, it will NOT be accepted. That being said, I look forward to hearing other people’s opinions on the issue. So let me continue…

Being a part of a business in a cut-throat industry has opened my eyes to some dangerous truths. more»

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capitalism, customer service, industry, price, probuild, walmart

Level of Difficulty: Incredibly Easy

There’s nothing more annoying than opening up your finder window, intending to click on Macintosh HD or your External HardDrive and accidentally clicking iDisk, with it telling you you have to setup your preferences.

It’s not a major issue, but for anyone who’s constantly accessing a device in your DEVICES panel, know how incredibly annoying it is. Fortunately, there’s an easy way to fix it.

Open a new finder window and place your mouse of one of the devices and command(the little ⌘ button) + click.

Now you’ll see a list of devices to check/uncheck. Uncheck the iDisk item, and there you have it, no more annoying iDisk icon.

Final Result

Caveat: If you actually USE iDisk, I don’t recommend doing this as it will not show up here, even if you are connected to it. If you don’t use it now but plan on using it in the future, just follow the same steps listed above, checking iDisk, rather than unchecking it.

Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
There is no telling if the dogs in Puerto Vallarta are free range or if they actually belong to someone. Everywhere you go in the city there are dogs that just…roam.

A horse is a horse, of course, of course, UNLESS it’s from Cofer Ranch. From a Collection of “Cofer Ranch: A Buffalo’s Home” Photographs.

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black and white, cofer ranch, grunge, horse

For all of my fellow (twitter) climbers: First glance of a “product” shoot I did for my Black Diamond Climbing Rope & Omega Pacific Quickdraws.

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black diamond, carabiners, climbing rope, omega pacific, quickdraws

There’s something about a first. Your first kiss. Your first car. Your first true Mexican Burrito. The first sip of the proverbial Kool-Aid.

Maybe it’s the excitement (translate “awkwardness” for some) of actually doing something you’ve always wanted to do…turning the dream into a reality. It’s a moment that because of that ONE thing, your life will be changed forever.

I remember my first swig of the Kool-Aid and I’ll be the first to admit it: I drink the Kool-Aid, and it tastes like Apple.
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I know what you’re thinking to yourself: “Why would I want my Wordpress posts date to be completely replaced by images.”

Just kidding. I don’t know why you would think that to yourself. Let’s face it, with the advent of CSS, we’ve all resorted to replacing what would be normal text markup (words on the page) with images because as designers and creatures of aesthetics, we like things to look unique…and there’s only so much uniqu-ity you can show with standard HTML.

So I’ve taken the already available features of PHP in Wordpress and used it in conjunction with CSS to make totally replaced (and web-standards compliant) dates.

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calendar, css image replacement, dates, images, photoshop, PHP, tutorial, wordpress

I have a confession: Digital photography is killing me.
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35mm, digital photography, irritating, leica, Mylinda Knittel, photographer, Photography, Spring Street Studios

Remember when you used to have to load a camera with a little circular object called, “film”. I do. This is a small sample of photographs that were taken close to 10 years ago. They were shot on an old Nikon F2 (from the ’70s) 35 mm with iso 400 film. My family has always taken trips to St. George Island for vacation, and everytime we go I find something new to photograph. This is the fruit of my very first photography project from High School. It’s amazing to see how much my style has evolved, as well as how much the camera itself has evolved. more»