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Body Blading is freakin’ awesome!

Welcoming 2010 Worldwide: Some really cool photography in the collection.

55 incredible examples of photo manipulation. Really amazing stuff!

Really cool Paper Roll Forest Cutout Art.

A 103 meter drop Waterfall that you literally stand on the very edge of.

Grab yourself some Boob Cupcakes from a really friendly and talented Designer/Artist I’ve spoken to online.

What condoms can do for us. (Thinking outside the box.)

One of the funniest LameBook posts I’ve read yet.

Amazing Wordpress tutorials for Designers and people beginning to delve into Wordpress, at Themeforest.net’s Blog.

Below is a collection of my favourite shots that I’ve taken and processed over the past week or so. Some of them are earlier than March but that would have just led to an unattractive title then, wouldn’t it?

Seeing as I’m taking more Photographs than ever before, I’ve decided that I’m going to have a dedicated Photography section on the site. It’s not going to be just a category like it is now. I’m thinking a way to display the images. There are a few Wordpress plugins available to do such a job (eg) but I’ll explore other options and decide again.

Toodles!

Why would I want to install Wordpress locally on my Mac?

Well, the main reason ( and the only reason that I’ll use it for ) is to test out new themes. Installing locally eliminates the hassle of having to upload the .css and .php files everytime you make a change to their content. And it means that your live site is not disturbed and your viewers are not greeted by a half finished theme.

How would I go about this?

Really, really easily - That’s how.

• Download “MAMP“. Install it in the “Applications” folder.

• Download the latest version of “WordPress” (at the time of writing, this is 2.6.1 ).

• Unzip the downloaded file and place the unzipped “wordpress” folder in: Applications > MAMP > htdocs.

Wordpress Install Path

• Open the MAMP application and start both the Apache Server and the MySQL Server. Click on the “Open Start age” Button or alternatively point your browser of choice to “http://localhost:8888/MAMP/“

Wordpress MySQL Admin Page

• Create a new database. You may call it whatever you want but for simplicity’s sake I entitled mine “wordpress”.

• Now you go to: Applications > MAMP > htdocs > wordpress > wp-config-sample.php and open that file in your favourite plain text editor. Edit the details to the following values and save the file as “wp-config.php”.

define('DB_NAME', 'wordpress'); // The name of the database
define('DB_USER', 'root'); // Your MySQL username
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'root'); // ...and password
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost:8888'); // 99% chance you won't need to change this value


• Now, point your browser to the install.php script. Follow the onscreen instructions and remember to jot down the admin password so you can log in in the next page.

And that’s it.

I’m off for some lunch.