Wrenaissance Art » web design http://wrenaissance-art.com Botanical illustration & graphic design by Wren M. Allen Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:00:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Texas wildflower sightings http://wrenaissance-art.com/2011/03/19/texas-wildflower-sightings/ http://wrenaissance-art.com/2011/03/19/texas-wildflower-sightings/#comments Sat, 19 Mar 2011 10:00:09 +0000 Admin http://wrenaissance-art.com/?p=1084 Continue reading →]]> Wild about Texas Wildflowers is a small website devoted to Texas wildflowers. The site contains a photo-illustrated identification guide page usefully organized by color and a Q-and-A page, where readers send in their photos of unusual blossoms they have spotted in the Texas countryside and get them identified by other helpful readers of the site.

You can also send in updates of your own wildflower sightings. Lone Star Internet, an Austin-based web design firm created Wild about Texas Wildflowers to showcase their database design and management. While the visual appearance of the site is pretty basic, Texas wildflower aficionados will enjoy adding it to their information resources as they track down the latest and greatest bloom sites around the state.

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]]> http://wrenaissance-art.com/2011/03/19/texas-wildflower-sightings/feed/ 0 Credit where it’s due! A photo-crediting flow chart http://wrenaissance-art.com/2011/03/18/credit-where-its-due-a-photo-crediting-flow-chart/ http://wrenaissance-art.com/2011/03/18/credit-where-its-due-a-photo-crediting-flow-chart/#comments Fri, 18 Mar 2011 12:31:34 +0000 Admin http://wrenaissance-art.com/?p=1081 Continue reading →]]> Design*Sponge just published a flow chart of the how’s, why’s and when’s of using and crediting others’ images on your own blog. The flow chart was written and designed by Pia Jane Bijkerk, Erin Loechner and Yvette van Boven.
Unfortunately, many bloggers remain ignorant about respecting other people’s copyright and image usage and licensing. Even worse, some are determined to ignore courtesy, ethics and law in order to decorate their online publications with pretty pictures, or to make a profit by repackaging other people’s hard work and creativity.
This hand-lettered chalkboard flow chart educates with humor. Go take a look! :-)

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]]> http://wrenaissance-art.com/2011/03/18/credit-where-its-due-a-photo-crediting-flow-chart/feed/ 0 Site design changes at Wrenaissance Art http://wrenaissance-art.com/2010/11/04/site-design-changes-at-wrenaissance-art/ http://wrenaissance-art.com/2010/11/04/site-design-changes-at-wrenaissance-art/#comments Thu, 04 Nov 2010 21:13:37 +0000 Admin http://wrenaissance-art.com/?p=860 Continue reading →]]> It’s time to start rebuilding this site to function as a portfolio site. To that end, I am testing out different WordPress themes. Bear with me while construction is under way!

As always when a new theme is installed, then deactivated, the old theme exhibits odd changes in appearance. How frustrating.

Right now, I’m trying out the Twenty Ten theme.

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]]> http://wrenaissance-art.com/2010/11/04/site-design-changes-at-wrenaissance-art/feed/ 0 Tale of woe: My site name has been hijacked http://wrenaissance-art.com/2010/10/25/tale-of-woe-my-site-name-has-been-hijacked/ http://wrenaissance-art.com/2010/10/25/tale-of-woe-my-site-name-has-been-hijacked/#comments Tue, 26 Oct 2010 03:14:18 +0000 Admin http://wrenaissance-art.com/?p=788 Continue reading →]]> The name of my site has been hijacked to form part of the file name of a bogus page on a spam site.
Since I’ve discovered this, I’ve contacted my hosting provider and tracked down and contacted the host providers of both the IP of the main spam site’s URL and the IP of the specific URL of the offending page. I’ve also banned the IPs, installed Akismet and banned image hotlinking.
The bogus page is not your typical plagiarized-content spam blog. Instead, my blog images were uploaded to the page with a hotlink, along with their file directory path, info about the file and upload/download times for each file. My hosting company thinks it’s some kind of test page. InterNIC shows the spammer’s main site to be hosted in the Czech Republic, while the bogus page is hosted in the Netherlands.
If you have a WordPress blog, you might want to examine your spam comments carefully when they arrive in the moderation queue. In this case, the spammer was using my site’s name as his/her commenter name. The URL listed incorporated the name of my site as the file name of a sub-page of the spammer’s site, but with some alterations by adding extra hyphens, digits and forward slashes. The ARIN whois IP search info in the WordPress notification email led to a dead end, as the bogus page IP is not in the US.
I’m very reluctant to contact the probable spammer directly. If he has my website name and personal name, all he needs to commit fraud or identity theft is a live email address.

I’m anxious and saddened about the loss of my good name. :-(

]]> http://wrenaissance-art.com/2010/10/25/tale-of-woe-my-site-name-has-been-hijacked/feed/ 0 Today’s web-site progress http://wrenaissance-art.com/2010/07/29/todays-web-site-progress/ http://wrenaissance-art.com/2010/07/29/todays-web-site-progress/#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:51:35 +0000 Admin http://wrenaissance-art.com/?p=559 Continue reading →]]> Went through the site laboriously by hand yesterday and updated all the images, as suggested by the Host Gator help desk. The banner image of my watercolor palette is back, along with the use of Garamond and Optima as the primary type faces.
Check out my about page: I’ve added an old snapshot of me at work during the Amazon cruise and workshop I took in 2008.

Email is still spotty, so next step will be asking friends and family to use the address as a test. And, of course, now I need to retrieve all the groovy links of real-life friends and online resources.

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]]> http://wrenaissance-art.com/2010/07/29/todays-web-site-progress/feed/ 0 All change http://wrenaissance-art.com/2010/04/05/all-change/ http://wrenaissance-art.com/2010/04/05/all-change/#comments Mon, 05 Apr 2010 10:50:28 +0000 Admin http://blog.wrenaissance-art.com/?p=457 Continue reading →]]> More changes afoot here at Wrenaissance Art and A Bird’s Eye View.

My web-hosting company is changing its service packages and will no longer be providing a blog with the basic web-hosting package. The changeover date is 31 May, so I have 6 or 7 weeks to find a good solution.

It seems computer systems always want to be changed when you move your household!

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]]> http://wrenaissance-art.com/2010/04/05/all-change/feed/ 0 Changes to A Bird's Eye View and Wrenaissance Art http://wrenaissance-art.com/2010/02/22/changes-to-a-birds-eye-view-and-wrenaissance-ar/ http://wrenaissance-art.com/2010/02/22/changes-to-a-birds-eye-view-and-wrenaissance-ar/#comments Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:49:29 +0000 Admin http://blog.wrenaissance-art.com/?p=272 Continue reading →]]> This weekend I spent quite a bit of time making cosmetic changes on the blog and website.

I’ve updated my WordPress and changed to the Subtle Flux theme. I customized the theme by adding a photo of my traveling watercolor paintbox for the blog banner, instead of the forest and river photo that was included in the theme.

Wrenaissance Art is still being laid out in iWeb and uploaded to my web host’s outside servers. I changed the background colors to white and major font family to Garamond (Helvetica is still used for the slideshow captions and the seemingly unchangeable page links). I also switched the banners from my colored pencils to my paintbox.

Expect more harmonization between the appearances of the blog and the website in weeks to come!

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