the hearts and laserbeams blog!

recently blogger decided we can't publish my blog to my own website anymore so here we are! pardon the dust, and please visit us online at www.heartsandlaserbeams.com!

hearts and laserbeams is the wacky good-times art and design by me, steph calvert. i team up with robots, cupcakes, and stick people to show people art isn’t all about seriousness, missing ears, and deep thoughts; it can actually be tons of fun.

1.16.2009

rock the vote, don't rock the vote baby, rock the vote don't tip the vote over!

dear dudes and dudettes,

i implore you to please pay a visit to http://misshb.org/vote_2009.html and vote for our friend emily z for miss huntington beach; she'll get a rad scholarship for college that would be super appreciated by her and her family!

sincerely,

steph

ps did you vote yet?

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10.22.2008

website fixes wish list - do you know a coder?

i'll level with ya, i'm an artist and not a coder. i've gotten my site off the ground, and am looking for help getting some issues knocked out that i can't seem to wrap my head around. please take a look at the following list and let me know how much it would cost for you to fix all of these for me, along with a time frame on how soon you can get it finished.

thanks so much, i look forward to hearing from anyone who can be of service!

steph calvert

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1) the home page link, category links, and top header banner have an extra "/" at the end of the link.

2) blog issues - need someone who is familiar with blogger.

a) the archiving is wonky. clicking on one of the archives pulls up a separate page instead of being pulled up on that blog page. i also need each post to have a permalink so people can share the link and or bookmark it.
b) images from cell phone posts aren't showing up; there's a path that's always incorrect on those posts. once i fix the path the image shows up ok.
c) the time posted for blog post is a link but goes to an error page

3) would like to have easier paths on the address bar throughout the site and don't know how to change that - for example:

i have: https://www.heartsandlaserbeams.com//index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=76_83&products_id=290

Ideal would be: https://www.heartsandlaserbeams.com/accessories/1_inch_buttons

(NOTE: for this one, if it's an easy fix you don't have to go through every page to update the paths, you can tell me how you did the first one and i can fix the rest. this will be a neccessity since i'll be adding new pages and products in the future)

4) ssl issues: on every single page i'm getting a popup saying how "some items on the page are unsecure would i still like to view". i don't think that's supposed to constantly be showing up. i may not have set up my ssl properly, currently the https prefix is on every page and someone told me that may affect search engine results.

5) want the middle of the page (currently light grey) where the products show up to be white instead of light grey.

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10.04.2008

a serious cry for programming help

ok guys i seriously need programming help and i know there's someone out there that can help me - it's not anything super duper major, but it's beyond my scope of programming expertise (which is, in technical terms, slim to bupkiss). i'm not looin for a free ride here - take a look at my website's blog, and if you can help fix the following four problems i will send you 2 free prints of your choice in the mail!

1: there's something about the twitter code that's pushing the page out too wide, and i need to fix it but am not sure how. take a look at other pages on the website, none of the rest require scrolling left and right to see everything.

2: is there something i can do to put some kind of dividing line between the blog posts?

3: is there a way to format the text that you know of? like i'd like the titles to be bigger and easier to read if that's possible... OR if i could just publish my blog to this page instead of using CaRP that would be super rad, too. that's what i did with my old website and for some reason that wasn't jiving with this new site...

4: BIGGEST ISSUE: i really want my comments back because i heart comments.

now here's the technical mumbo jumbo that may help you solve this crap: i built my website using zencart, and i'm using CaRP to publish my blogspot blog through an rss feed. i know there's a wordpress module for blogging with zencart, but i'd rather not change over to wordpress since i've been writing on this same blog for 6 years.

if anyone can help i'd super appreciate it - i have a support ticket in with CaRP that never got answered (i submitted it like 3 months ago). and remember! if you can help me with all four issues you get 2 free prints of your choice from my online shop!

thanks in advance!

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