‘Geek Squad’ Archives
Stripping Exif Meta Data
One thing that is useful to do if you are creating images for the web is to strip out the EXIF meta data from the files before uploading them to your webserver. Starting with the moment you press the shutter on a digital camera, additional information is added to every [Read More]
Easter Egg in Slide Show
An Easter egg is a hidden bonus feature of software that is undocumented. You have to discover it. It is kind of like the opposite of a bug. Well I just discovered an Easter egg in our slideshow widget which you see running at the top of the right side bar titled [Read More]
Alexa Traffic Rank
On the right-hand sidebar, just below the blogroll links, we added an Alexa traffic rank widget. According to Alexa, for the last three months lagunabachbikini.com is the 8,082,109 ranked site measured by traffic. We are right behind Luigi’s Sub & Pizza and just [Read More]
New Feature: Live Chat
Yesterday we added another new feature to Laguna Beach Bikini: live chat. If you click on the StudioCam link in the menu bar above you will go to the page with the webcam. Below that is the live chat window. Just type in your name or handle and your can start chatting as a [Read More]
Live Webcam from Studio
We added a new feature to Laguna Beach Bikini: a live webcam. Just click on the StudioCam link along the top menu bar to see a live image from photo studio. This is not a live video feed. Only still images are captured every so often like once per minute. When you go to the [Read More]
Partnering with Google Adsense
We are now partnering with the biggest force on the World Wide InterWeb–Google. Starting immediately Laguna Beach Bikini now hosts Google Adsense advertising. Those blocks of advertising you see in the sidebars on each page Google AdSense is a way for publishers to [Read More]
New Features: Gallery and Slideshow
We add a couple of new features to Laguna Beach Bikini. The first is the small gallery in the left-hand sidebar. Every time a page is loaded, ten random images from the galleries will be displayed as thumbnails. Click on the thumbnail for the larger picture. The second [Read More]
Upgraded Wordpress Today
This website is powered by Wordpress, one of the most popular blog engines. Wordpress was introduced a few years ago and now runs tens of thousands of websites. Well today we upgraded from Wordpress 2.3.2 to Wordpress 2.7.1, which is the latest version. Readers probably [Read More]
New Layout for Laguna Beach Bikini
We switched to a new layout for the front page of Laguna Beach Bikini website. Instead of a static page now the Fashion & Swimwear pictures will be front and center. The reason for the change is to give the fashion styles, fashion models and photos more prominence on [Read More]
New Feature: Flickr Photos
Laguna Beach Bikini is about providing useful articles and information about fashion, modeling and acting plus a few other related topics. But we are also all about pictures and want to make the photography a primary reason to visit our site. You may have noticed that [Read More]
Web Design in 2008
Hi! I am the web developer and designer for Laguna Beach Bikini. Normally I don’t create any of the content, but I am responsible for the operation and look of the site. Most readers will not be interested in this article because it is kind of geeky, so you can [Read More]
Improved Thumbnails and Slideshow
As we learn more about how the software works we will be making improvements to maximize your enjoyment of Laguna Beach Bikini. So we made some refinements to the way thumbnails are displayed and the also to the way the slideshow works. We improved the thumbnails in the [Read More]
