We really like the Boon Flair highchair. It’s best feature is the ease of which it can be cleaned.
The chair looks like a salon chair, complete with a pneumatic lift. The foam padding removes for easy cleaning and the tray can be inserted/removed with one hand. The tray has a snap in cover that can easily be placed in the dishwasher.
Boon Tray Mockup
A great addition would be if the snap-in tray cover had molded compartments, like a cafeteria tray. Then the tray could be used in place of a plate, which can easily be turned over or knocked onto the floor.
Below is a good video review by Baby Gizmo. I think our chair is a newer model than the one in the review because our tray has one latch in the center that can be engaged with a single hand.
Play Bow Dog Training LLC is a new dog training facility in Tacoma, WA. One of the trainers, Numia, provided training for our dog shortly after we rescued her. She is an outstanding trainer and seems to have a lot of fun teaching people how to be better dog owners.
Dianna designed their logo, business cards, post cards and signage. She also provided the initial layout of the website. I converted her design into a WordPress theme.
I recently had a client who, for some reason, had a website that was composed of a static set of pages, a Blogger site that was set up to publish to the original site via FTP and there were two separate Blogger blogs set up for specific posts that should simply have been categories.
Importing posts from the two standard Blogger sites was easy. Just visit your WordPress dashboard, select Tools>Import. Next choose Blogger. You will be prompted to enter your Google credentials so that your WordPress install can communicate directly with your Blogger account. Your blogs will show up on a page, displaying the number of posts and comments in each one. Beside each blog name will be a “Magic Button” that will import everything into WordPress. You can set the author of these posts to existing WordPress users at this time.
The problem I had was that one of the Blogger blogs was set to publish to a directory on the client’s web server and the WordPress Importer could not handle this circumstance. So for this blog, I had to log into the Blogger account, go to the settings for the blog in question, then Export the posts as an XML file.
I found a link on a WordPress support page to a blogger2wordpress conversion tool that will accept the Blogger XML file and produce a WordPress WXR file for you to download. Now you can simply return to your WordPress Dashboard, go to Tools>Import then select WordPress. Click on the Choose File button and select the WXR file that was created by the blogger2wordpress tool.
I recently noticed that default text on a web site I was working on was being displayed in italics. It was only in Firefox, so I thought maybe it was being caused by an add-on. I tried disabling them, but still had the italicized text.
I ended up fixing the issue by restarting the font server and then restart Firefox.
Restart the font server by opening a Terminal window in OS X (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal). Then type the following commands, hitting Enter after each line.
atsutil databases -removeUser
atsutil server -shutdown
atsutil server -ping
I never really noticed before, but Gmail uses Flash for uploading attachments. My wife noticed that she wasn’t able to upload multiple files at once when composing an email in Gmail. At first we though maybe it was the recent Firefox update, but then I remembered that she had just installed the Flashblock add-on for Firefox. This add-on is great for preventing Flash advertisements and other autoplay Flash movies. Usually you can still see where a Flash movie was blocked, but not in Gmail since the Google developers have done such a great job of gracefully degrading to a standard file upload control.
It’s easy to add sites to the Flashblock Whitelist, allowing Flash to load on those domains in the list. Just go to ‘Tools>Add-Ons’ then select Flashblock. Click on the ‘Preferences’ button, then ‘Whitelist’. Here you type the web site URL without adding the protocol, which for Gmail would be mail.google.com. Click ‘OK’ then close the Add-ons window. The Whitelist takes effect instantly, so you can start composing a new email right away and add multiple attachments to it.
Muddy Paws Pet Sitting and Dog Walking needed a small, clean site which would could be grown as needed. Their logo and initial design for the Web site was done by Dianna Bougher. I converted that design into a WordPress theme. I am also providing hosting for the Muddy Paws Pet Sitting and Dog Walking site.
After one full week of having a new BlackBerry Tour 9630, I thought I’d write a quick review. This is my first BlackBerry, so there is a little learning curve to the operating system. I have been using an iPod Touch for several months and my phone for the last two years has been a Sony Ericson w580i, so the QWERTY keyboard is also taking a little adjustment. Overall, I find the messaging to be exceptional. Surfing the web in the BlackBerry browser isn’t quite as smooth as Safari on the iPod Touch/iPhone, but it isn’t bad experience.
Out of the box
I had one issue before I even started using the Tour. I took it out of the box and had a bit of trouble getting the battery cover off. The instructions weren’t really clear. I had to push up the silver latch then pry open the bottom of the cover with a fingernail.
WiFi would be a nice feature.
It would be nice if the headset jack was on top rather than on the side.
For the second time, I was able to attend An Event Apart, a great “two-day conference for passionate practitioners of standards-based web design.” The conference was founded by, and includes presentations by, Eric Meyer and Jeffrey Zeldman. Both have authored essential books for any bookshelf sitting beside someone who works on Web sites.
This year’s AEA in Seattle was held at the Bell Harbor International Conference Center. This was a very hospitable venue on Seattle’s waterfront, between the cruise terminal and Anthony’s Pier 66 restaurant.
There was a fantastic mix of web standards advocates, user experience gurus and content specialists at this year’s conference. Some of the highlights for me was the form design session by Luke Wroblewski, the passionate presentation by Kristina Halvorson on the need for a web content strategy and Dan Cederholm‘s presentation on why you shouldn’t worry about making sites look EXACTLY the same in all browsers.
This is a short post to test whether or not I correctly spliced this bit.ly PHP code into the Twitme WordPress plugin I am using. If it works, I’ll expand on this post later.
UPDATE: Well, it seems to work. I basically just copied the code from James Cridland and replaced the TimesURL class that Twitme was using.
I was surprised to get a comment this morning from Johnny Mast saying he was going to use the Cridland code in Twitme 1.6.9.3 which just came out today. This would have happened without my help, but I feel like I had at least a bit part in this taking place.
