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Blogging in 2012, starting again

By Dennis Guten on January 7, 2012 No Comments

20120107-133352.jpgAfter a long hiatus (May 2011) from my WordPress blog, I have finally decided I needed to write again.

One of the things stopping me was a stupid requirement I imposed on myself for posting. I was using a feature called “featured post” that was a little section that faded out images from each post as sort of a preview.

It required me to create a 300 x 200 pixel image for each post and then tag that as the “featured image” within the WordPress theme, which is a framework called Headway.

Only problem was that I was using my iPad way more than my laptop and it was next to impossible to do from the iPad.

This morning I decided to scrap that section and start blogging again. I started this post on the iPad and am finishing it on the iPhone!

Oh yeah, the image is of my wife Ruthie from the New Years party we went to. it was edited in an iPhone app called SketchMee.

Categories : Headway Themes, iPhone, Ruthie, WordPress
Tags : iPad, iPhone

I created a political website!

By Dennis Guten on May 6, 2011 No Comments

Yes, that’s correct. I actually made a political campaign website.

The site is for a friend, John DeMattia, for the Richardson, TX City Council Elections coming up on May 14th. The site address is: www.johnforrichardson.com and it’s a little six-pager I put together using my “Antares” website framework. The site is called: www.johnforrichardson.com.

John is running because he has witnessed the current city government mismanage funds and get the city into debt by making unwise choices. John wants to get Richardson, TX back on a fiscally sound standing and help the city by serving.

He is a member of an organization called The Richardson Citizens Alliance, which is running a slate of candidates to oppose the Richardson Coalition candidates, some of whom are the incumbents in the race.

Antares is a small framework I have been working on for a while and have finished and put the final touches on. This was the first real test to see just how much time I could save using it as a starting base of code for a site.

It essentially gives me a frame of header, content and footer with all margins, padding, divs, CSS, HTML, SlideShowPro (a flash based slide show software) and Lightbox (image zoom effect where the background grays out) all pre-coded. You just create a certain sized header and footer and add copy and images and the site fills in pretty quickly.

In this case, from start to finish it took 2.25 hours to make the site.

Categories : Elections, Politics, Web Design

Our David and his Amy have announced their engagement – Yippie

By Dennis Guten on May 1, 2011 No Comments

So we are sitting at Fortuna and Isaac’s for dinner and David calls and asks to be put on speakerphone. Now David hates talking on the speakerphone so we knew something was up. Jon guessed correctly and said “I bet they got engaged.” Yup!

So that’s how we found out (yeah, I know, I’m slow to make a post) that our middle son David Rahmani and his long-time girlfriend Amy Goldman have gotten engaged!

David managed to get Amy to a mountain top near Bolder, Colorado at sunset, got down on one knee and asked her to marry him. She did say yes.


It looks like the wedding will be somewhere in Colorado in the summer of 2012.

They are exploring different venues and options. Both Amy and David are both very excited and are really getting into the planning.

All we know for now is that it will be in Colorado and that there will be an engagement party near Austin this month. The plans are coming fast and furious though. David and Ruthie have had zillions of phone calls since the engagement was announced.

More on this as developments occur…

Categories : Family Stuff
Tags : Amy, Colorado, David, Engagement, Wedding
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