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Blog Back To Normal

Sonia — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 21:22:37 +0000

Apparently a little slash here and there makes a big difference with web programming. For other people in need of a nice WordPress theme for showing off their photos, the good people at NetRivet are super helpful and helped me get everything back to normal in a very short amount of time.

Technical Difficulties

Sonia — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 07:32:54 +0000

I don’t know what happened to my blog, but whatever happened has made my very unhappy! As I write this post, all of the formatting has disappeared from my blog. I’m looking at a plain white background, no banner, no logo, no colors. And all of the text and pictures in my posts are jammed together.

Ugh. For first-time visitors to the blog, I promise that this is not some minimalist experiment of expression! Hopefully the WordPress fairy will visit me during the night and get everything back to normal. Until then, at least my photographs are viewable. Just not in the most aesthetically pleasing environment.

New Blog and New Website!

Sonia — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:08:39 +0000

I’m very excited about my new website and new blog. I now have a custom-designed html site that makes use of Flash slideshows but is not an all Flash site. This probably doesn’t mean much to non-techy people – and a year ago I couldn’t have cared less about html vs. Flash sites – but after navigating many a photography website, I have developed a preference for html frameworks.

I also have a new blog to go along with my new site – a big thanks to NetRivet for providing such a great WordPress theme! I still need to do some touching up of my posts from the first half of 2008, but all my new posts will have wonderful big pictures. And now that I am running WordPress I can have everything hosted with my own www.sonialena.com domain.

I’m somewhat ashamed of how behind I am in my blogging – I have portrait sessions and weddings from the last four months of 2008 that have yet to be shared with the world. Not to mention a bit of personal work here and there that I’d like to put up as well.

I’m hoping to be all caught up by the time I leave for Washington DC in two weeks for Obama’s inauguration, because I will have plenty to blog about when I return!

New Blog Look!

Sonia — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 01:20:00 +0000

So dreary. So gray. Maybe I saw The Dark Knight too many times. And I’m still thinking of catching it on IMAX.

In any case, here is the new look!

New Site Colors and Logo

Sonia — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 19:03:00 +0000

I played around with the colors on my photography site and created a new logo. And no, my blog doesn’t match my website yet. One day I will take the plunge and get WordPress up and running, but I haven’t quite wrapped my head around it.

I am still working on redesigning my website so that I can ditch my template by the beginning of 2009. I’m a big fan of sites such as this one for Peter Yang. I like that you can view all the gallery images on one page, unlike many Flash websites.

I don’t find Flash to be very user friendly. Flash can definitely create some beautiful sites, but often they’re slow to load, can be difficult to navigate, and don’t allow any bookmarking of specific images.

But Flash is definitely the flavor of the day when it comes to photographer websites. I might not ditch it completely, but I will definitely not have an all-Flash site.

Master of Disaster

Sonia — Tue, 06 May 2008 06:24:00 +0000

As in Photoshop Disasters. A must read!