My Grand Daughter!

My daughter had her first child today.  A healthy  6 pound 13 oz baby girl at 1:35 this afternoon.  Yep, that makes me an “old man”, but I love it.  She is such a beauty!!  I am so very happy for Kaity and glad to see her doing well and loving her new gift.  What a wonderful thing life is!

HotSpot Blog

HotSpot Blog

This site was developed on a Multi-Site install WordPress.  The site needed the multi site configuration to accomplish having blogs for each city or location with users that could be linked to any combination of cities.  The site was designed by Small Dog Creative an awesome graphic design firm that we have worked closely with in the past.  The designs are clean and easy to implement on the web.  Thanks to Anya at Small Dog Creative for including us on this project.

Taikun Hosting

Taikun Hosting

Introducing a new website just completed by Winn Photography & Design.  This site was a re-design for a Shared Hosting provider.  The site was built with upon the Thematic framework for WordPress.  Custom PHP functions were written to change some of the core functions of Thematic and to integrate the WordPress CMS end of the site with the WHM side of the site.

“Hey there, this looks great!” — Taikun Hosting

We look forward to working with this client again in the future!!

• Labor Day Visitor

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• Labor Day Visitor

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It was pretty cool, while I was grilling the meat for our Labor Day BBQ, this deer shows up feasting on our grass in our backyard.  She was a very young one, not much bigger than a large dog.  She watched my every step while I cooked and she feasted, but didn’t seem too phased by my presence.  I grabbed the Canon and started shooting.  The shutter snapping away did seem to startle her just a tad, but it didn’t stop her from feasting.  I must say, I love Wyoming, we never would have seen anything like this in Nevada.

• Proud President

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  President Ron Bird holds the awards the club won at the District 5300 conference.

• President's Citation

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  Richard Winn recieves one of two of the clubs President's Citations as President Ron Bird recognized Richard Winn for the outstanding work performed on the club's award winning website.

• Honorary Member

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  Richard Winn was made an honorary member of the Rotary Club of Mesquite Nevada in recognition for the work performed on the club's award winning website.

• Rotary District 5300 Awards

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  The awards that the Rotary Club of Mesquite Nevada won at the district conference for Rotary District 5300

Richard Winn was honored by the Rotary Club of Mesquite Nevada in recognition for the hard work and effort put into designing and developing an award winning website for the club.  Richard was made an honorary member of the club and received a President’s citation from outgoing President Ron Bird.  The new site was built upon the WordPress platform for easy management and adhered to strict guidelines presented by Rotary District 5300 to meet the high standards of Rotary International.  On behalf of Winn Photography & Design, we cannot thank the Rotary Club of Mesquite Nevada enough for the good times and allowing us to create their award winning website.

Just would like to take a minute to put out there my frustration and dissatisfaction with one of, in my opinion, the worst hosting providers I have ever had the unpleasant experience of dealing with.  I signed up and had reseller hosting for several years ago, when it was still a somewhat small company.  The customer service was top notch and the hosting was very good.  About two years into my relationship with this company they sold out to a company based out of the UK.  They made all kinds of promises that it wouldn’t effect the level of service of I had come to appreciate.  Since the sellout, the tech support has gotten worse and worse with each interaction and now that I am moving away from WestHost to a MUCH better provider, they have done everything they can including ripping me off for everything they could attempt to push through on my credit card and when they didn’t get enough money from me for that they disabled my domain name that was paid for through the end of September of this year!  A direct quote from one of their techs “We are all trying our hardest to provide a great service” to which I would have to say, if this is the best they can do, they aren’t trying very hard at all.  The services provided by the current state of WestHost in my opinion are below substandard!  It is my greatest advice to stay as far away from this, in my opinion, SCAM company!  My opinion is backed up by the facts of my individual interactions with this company and I pray no one else has to suffer through the total amount of crap I have had to suffer through over the last few weeks.

This video was taken at the Fort Washakie Native American Day community Pow Wow.  These kids worked all year long to learn the hoop dance and how to sign a song.  This after school program required a commitment from all the kids that they would be a part of Native strut for each of the nine week programs for an entire year.  The video is the culminating event for this activity and it shows the kids performing the hoop dance a complicated Native American dance and the students signing to the Native American Anthem.

I have been working with creating custom WordPress themes and learning all the in’s and out’s of this great piece of software.  I have created several themes over the past few years and have never had any problems working with the PHP and creating my template files so I thought I would use changing my website over to WordPress as practice to get more in depth with the functions and abilities of the complete package.  The change over has been going great until I noticed a small problem.  The HTML editor was showing all the buttons but they were all blank and they had no functionality.

I searched the web for solutions or answers as to why this might be happening and came up with several solutions.  I tried everything from cutting and pasting PHP code into my theme’s functions.php file, changing file permissions, and even changing settings within my WordPress install itself.  None of the solutions I found on the internet fixed the problem I was having.  I finally came across one post that had all of the same solutions as the other posts had, but this particular post also had something I had not considered.  Use your Firebug to debug the problem.  Wow, what a great idea.  I opened up Firebug and noticed that the Tinymce editor CSS file was returning a 500 Critical Server Error.

The solution: I have been using a CSS framework (Scaffold) written by Anthony Short for about two years now when I first discovered it in a tutorial on NetTuts+ about the framework.  The framework can be automatically called through the .htacces file and I had placed that code into my root directory so that all CSS files called within the site would be processed by Scaffold.  I found that Scaffold couldn’t process the Tinymce CSS file and it was causing the server error.  I moved the code from the root directory .htaccess file and to my themes directory .htaccess file and the HTML editor has been working great ever since.  If you are having trouble with the editor and are using some kind of CSS framework to process the CSS code, you may want to look at that as the problem.