http://www.stevesmart.com/ stevesmart.com is the homebase for Steve Smart, a visual motion artist, part-time Flash developer, Father and Husband. en-us steve@stevesmart.com 2007-05-04T20:15:42-06:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.stevesmart.com/archives/001584.php Hello. As you may have noticed I've been quite remiss in posting anything to Lightbox in a long while. After being super dedicated to the concept of daily photo posts for several months, I've now fallen off the wagon. I... 1584@http://www.stevesmart.com/ Site News 2007-05-04T20:15:42-06:00 http://www.stevesmart.com/archives/001467.php This is our family Christmas card for 2006. I hope you all have a great new year and a great 2007.... 1467@http://www.stevesmart.com/ Site News 2006-12-25T01:05:38-06:00 http://www.stevesmart.com/archives/001282.php I'm on vacation this week, but thanks to MovableType's scheduled posting feature I've got a week's worth of photos scheduled to post at Lightbox. This week I will be featuring photos from my business trip to San Juan earlier this... 1282@http://www.stevesmart.com/ Site News 2006-09-09T01:41:41-06:00 http://www.stevesmart.com/archives/001208.php Well, it took a bit more time that I initially hoped, but I just posted my 200th image on Lightbox. When I first began my Lightbox photoblog, my optimistic hope was to post an image per day, like this. But,... 1208@http://www.stevesmart.com/ Photography 2006-08-10T14:56:47-06:00 http://www.stevesmart.com/archives/001204.php Well, after making sure my database was safely backed up and a little few tense seconds, I upgraded my Movable Type installation to the new 3.31. So far, it seems that everything is going well and I am going poke... 1204@http://www.stevesmart.com/ Site News 2006-08-09T09:59:36-06:00 http://www.stevesmart.com/archives/001155.php I'm going to disable new comments on this blog until I get a handle on all the crazy comment spam that's been hammering me lately. I really think an upgrade to MT3.2 is in order. The new SpamLookup plugin seems... 1155@http://www.stevesmart.com/ Site News 2006-06-23T11:00:16-06:00 http://www.stevesmart.com/archives/001054.php I just got an email this afternoon imforming me that my site's XML feed has been added to the Macromedia XML News Aggregator. Cool, now I just need to write some stuff about Macromedia... rather, Adobe's products.... 1054@http://www.stevesmart.com/ Site News 2006-04-03T13:47:16-06:00 http://www.stevesmart.com/archives/000980.php Macromedia has updated their stats page showing Flash player penetration. Since initially being released in September of last year, Flash Player 8 has already achieved nearly 50% penetration. I think this is a remarkable amount of growth and it speaks... 980@http://www.stevesmart.com/ Technology 2006-02-03T13:59:46-06:00 http://www.stevesmart.com/archives/000938.php I've been making some little tweaks here and there under the hood here at stevesmart.com lately, including to the search results page. Until today, the search tool only searched this main blog, not SmartLinks or Lightbox. Figuring out how to... 938@http://www.stevesmart.com/ Site News 2006-01-10T17:13:27-06:00 http://www.stevesmart.com/archives/000911.php Well, here it is... December 31st with about 10 minutes to go until midnight. But the TV is off at our house, the kids are asleep and I'm just trying to finish up a few of my personal goals that... 911@http://www.stevesmart.com/ Site News 2005-12-31T23:49:59-06:00 http://www.stevesmart.com/archives/000883.php I just added a new RSS 2.0 feed to my archives page that blends the main stevesmart.com content with my smartlinks content. If you want to copy-n-paste, the feed url is: http://www.stevesmart.com/smartlinks_blended.xml This site is becoming much more about the... 883@http://www.stevesmart.com/ Site News 2005-12-07T14:48:47-06:00 http://www.stevesmart.com/archives/000857.php I just signed up for the new Google Analytics application. I spent few minutes last night adding the three or four lines of code to my site that allows Google to start gathering stats info for me. I've never really... 857@http://www.stevesmart.com/ Site News 2005-11-15T12:06:17-06:00 http://www.stevesmart.com/archives/000762.php I've been experimenting this week with how best to display the "smartLinks" content of this site. I tend to do more smartLink posting than anything else (64 posts in August) but I felt that they were always a bit lost... 762@http://www.stevesmart.com/ Site News 2005-09-02T22:41:54-06:00 http://www.stevesmart.com/archives/000680.php I was tweaking my Lightbox About page last night and started fooling around a bit with the formatting for each section. Since I often send a URL to somebody via email and add a message like "scroll down to the... 680@http://www.stevesmart.com/ Site News 2005-08-11T15:41:50-06:00 http://www.stevesmart.com/archives/000676.php I just realized I have more entries posted to SmartLinks than I do to the regular portion of this website. (209 SmartLinks vs. 170 regular) I think that's because I tend to only have the time and the attention span... 676@http://www.stevesmart.com/ Site News 2005-08-10T15:52:02-06:00