SOFTA Ventures

iPhone Posting

Well this is cool. After some tweaking by Michael, changing from too many redirects, iPhone WordPress is now working. This will make posting to our company site easier. Looking forward to staying in touch with you all.

January 16th, 2010 Posted by Larry | iphone | no comments

Growing Up the Blog

We started our blog about our new company, SOFTA Ventures, on wordpress.com, which is where I am currently writing this addition.  But the more we use it, and the more we learn,  we have come to the realization that in order to use the blog effectively we are going to have to take control of it within our own domain.

So beginning today I am starting the process of moving our softamobile.com domain from under the umbrella of wordpress.com to our own hosting site.  After that it will be figuring out how to set up our wordpress based blog there, fortunately it is a supported host so that eases the burden.  A supported host is one where the wordpress software is a utility available in your domain control panel.  No need to get the installation file form wordpress.  Installing should be easy, we’ll see.

Think the real challenge will be migrating the data from wordpress.com to our site.  Hoping there is enough on-line support to make this fairly painless.

We’ll see.

July 14th, 2009 Posted by Michael ORoark | SOFTA, social networking | no comments

Classes Paid Off – Well at Least in One Manner

Took a few classes this spirng on HTML and PHP coding.  Never thought that they would be put to use on a blog site.  But that certainly has been the case these past few weeks.  Although this site started as a fixed theme, we’ve done extensive “remodeling” using HTML code where allowed and tweaking the “CSS” to achieve our desired results.

Adding the highlight boxes in the “We Say ” section was the biggest challenge.  That contains the most custom HTML code. (Probably so poorly written HTML that a true coder would cringe, but hey like the inside of a wall only the outside matters. Umm until the water leaks.)

Still have a couple of nagging items.  Mainly the logo icon. It’s actually a background image added to the CSS.  Since adding an image proper is HTML code and you can’t do that in CSS nor in the WordPress site title boxes.  Problem is the logo looks good in Firefox, Safari (both on my Mac and on Windows) and IE8.  But in IE8 compatibility mode and in IE7 the logo is right in the middle of the header. Nothing I’ve tried so far in the CSS will make if move left. But being a methodical plodder when it comes to this I will eventually find the solution.

Or I’ll look at it and say, “Hey that doesn’t look so bad in the middle.” And leave it alone

June 26th, 2009 Posted by Michael ORoark | SOFTA, development | no comments