- If you ever want to embed video into your Wordpress 2.x blog, forget about the WYSIWYG editor (which will totally mess up your code and templates). Save hours of stuffing around trying to get it to work and use Quicktags instead. #
- For beginner photographers, ‘The Rule of Thirds’ and ‘Depth of Field’ are two easy ‘rules’ that dramatically improve your photos. In this article, these two concepts are well demonstrated without getting into a technical ‘how-to’. #
December 17th, 2006 · Tags: Commentary
Back in 1996, I launched my very first website - a fan site to the comic strip ‘Calvin and Hobbes’. I didn’t know much about IT back then, but it was enough to get me interested and this one website is what got me started in my IT career. By 1999, I had finished uni and had a full-time job and so I stopped updating the site.
Fast forward to 2006, and the CC&HC was looking a bit pathetic, dated and cringeworthy (what was I thinking with that design). I couldn’t stand it anymore and launched into a complete redesign of the site. I have to say I’m really pleased with the new look - I’m not embarrassed to show people the site 
And amazing what a redesign can do for your visitor count. The content is mostly the same, yet I now get 2-3x the visitors I used to get, and my Google ranking has jumped about 30 places. I never thought one of my websites would make it to 10 years!!
- Dan Gillmor makes the observation that the increasing prevalence of cameras and video cameras in the hands of the public will result in the decline of photojournalism as a profession, but without any loss in quality or quantity - if anything, there will be an improvement. #
December 11th, 2006 · Tags: Commentary
It’s almost the start of a new year and so I’ve finally got my lazy bum in gear and redone nivmedia.com (again). As the About page states, this site suffers from multiple personalities - hopefully this time the blog format will help tie all the various bits and pieces together.
