Summer Updates

I’ve been busy teaching my online and in the classroom versions of my course Art and Human Values for the Arts & Administration Program at the UO. In addition I have been taking care of the kids and hosting Dungeons & Dragons camps for them.

Sisy has been hard at work updating her line of products based on your popular butterfly paintings. She has recently added a series of home decor pillows in addition to the prints, tile coasters and poetry book that she has created. I am in the midst up updating her website with an new theme. It’s not done yet but I hope it will be soon.

As a part of creating the new theme for her WordPress site, I just completed an upgrade of my testing server to the newest versions of WordPress 3.0 and DreamWeaver CS5, which both work nicely together. In fact the new version of DreamWeaver has a new feature that allows for dynamically related files to be rendered in DreamWeavers Live View and all the related files are displayed in the documents title bar. This should speed up the development of WordPress themes in DreamWeaver quite considerably. I am looking forward to putting this new feature through it’s paces as I complete Sisy’s new theme.

Here is a link to an Adobe tutorial on setting up DreamWeaver and WordPress to work together.