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Installation notes #2

After studyin some with the template for my crash course in PHP, I decided to stick with the Kubrick kinda default, but figured I would do up a custom header image. It wasn’t difficult to have a static image via the header.php file - but I wanted more. I’ll come back to that shortly. I grabbed the Calendar plugin - and tweaked the colors to my liking. Also found the WeatherIcon plugin, and set that up for the local info from Charleston, SC. I had some directory permissions problems with uploading images from the “write post” , but I haven’t been back to look at that.

I was able to get counterize and randomize from http://andersdrengen.dk/projects/. The randomize will be useful for other things as well, but I wanted it for selecting the images for use in the header. The header.php for Kubrick indicates an image size of 760×200, but I found that too big. I still don’t completely understand the generation of the graded default background, but figured a way to make a frame from that to show up behind my sunrise/sunset pictures. For these to work right, they have to have enough transparency above and below to center vertically - which forces them to be .png which means they are bigger than .jpg… Thats ok tho, once they get cached, they aren’t so bad.