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Friends Making Mandalas 2007-09-29 17:50:59 Are you getting ready for Blog Action Day? I hope you will participate in some way! This painting is in honor of the earth … it looks like a formal garden to me - from above … with all the exciting paths and mysteries that the Victorian formal gardens used to have. Above the Formal Garden, Digital © Diane Clancy Bobbie at her blog gives an outstanding lesson on Making Mandalas today. And Frances has taken Bobbie’s lessons to heart and has quite a mandala exhibit here! These incredible displays of technical and artistic skill have been inspired by Sue O’Kieffe’s Sacred Circle Mandalas blog. Sue has been creating her mandalas filled with light for quite some time and has inspired many of us by the beauty of her creations!! ~ Diane Clancy Technorati Tags: earth, Bobbie, Frances, mandala, Sue O’Kieffe, Sacred Circle Mandalas ...

Environmental Challenge and Invitation 2007-09-28 17:34:12 Rima Koleilat and Neda Doany have issued a great challenge and invitation in honor of BLOG ACTION DAY, which will take place on October 15!! Everyone is welcome to participate - young and old - and middle-age too - bloggers and non-bloggers - artists and non-artists. So everyone! Above the Earth, Digital © Diane Clancy These rules (and more) are copied from their sites: Rules are simple for this Action Day Challenge: Come up with some image to promote the environmental cause of your choice. Write one line of text to accompany your image. Any artistic medium can be used: you can do a painting, a collage, a photomontage, photo, fabric piece, crayons, drawing … anything that you feel comfortable with. These are only suggestions, not guidelines. Submit only ONE entry please. Seriously, they mean it this time. Here’s why: Rima and Neda have decided to dedicate a whole section to this project on their online Maraya Galleries. Once an entry is received, it wi ...

Will Catch Up Tomorrow 2007-09-27 18:28:20 I don’t drink even drink coffee, but when I saw this image, it sure looks like people feel on “too much coffee”!  Feeling a little like this myself and going to take Neda’s suggestion to take another day of blog rest … hopefully will catch up tomorrow with YOUR blogs!!  I would love to hear about you! Too Much Coffee?, Digital © Diane Clancy ~ Diane Clancy ...

Post of Rest 2007-09-26 19:16:41 I figure we all deserve a day of rest … or a post of rest anyway, after that long series on Cluster Maps.  I am delighted to hear about you! Peeking Down, Digital © Diane Clancy ~ Diane Clancy ...

Cluster Maps for Websites 2007-09-25 16:10:30 This week we have been working on helping you get Cluster Maps onto your blog and/or site. Look back over the last several days for details. You may have noticed that Blogger and the WordPress widgets functioned very much alike - you don’t need to touch the code very much at all! On the other hand, not using widgets in WordPress makes it much more similar to adding a Cluster Map to a website - which we will do right now. You will probably be glad to know that this will be the end to this Cluster Maps series of tutorials. When we work with other statistics tools - exciting little toys - in the future, I will be referring you back to these technical details so we won’t have to go through them again!! Did I just hear a sigh of relief? When Was It Due?, Digital © Diane Clancy Now on to putting Cluster Maps into a website. You will want to have signed up for Cluster Maps and have the code ready to be pasted in. Look at this post again if you need help with this part. I am m ...

WordPress Sidebars - Cluster Maps 2007-09-24 19:24:00 Now it is time to do more work on the WordPress blogs for Cluster Maps. For an overview of Cluster Maps read my post from a few days ago. Another post starts the process of signing up for Cluster Maps and shares how to install a Cluster map on Blogger. Then we worked with putting Cluster Maps in WordPress widgets. Today we will work with WordPress for those who do not use widgets. Camelot, Digital © Diane Clancy You will want to have signed up for Cluster Maps and have the code ready to be pasted in. Look at this post again if you need help with this part. In the post the other day, we put the code into a widget. Many people are now using widgets - but not all of us! There are 2 basic ways to access your sidebar without a widget. One is working on your desktop and then uploading it and the other way it to edit the sidebar as it is on your server. Have I lost you yet? I hope not! If you work on your blog code on your computer and then upload it to your blog, we will add the co ...

Happy Weekend! 2007-09-23 18:25:23 Today I am going to give us all a break from Cluster Maps and just hope that everyone had a good weekend.  Please feel free to share here … and thank you for stopping by! At the Opera, Digital © Diane Clancy ~ Diane Clancy ...

Cluster Maps for WordPress 2007-09-22 20:23:33 Would you like to learn more about Cluster Maps? Would you like a Cluster Map on your site or blog? For an overview of Cluster Maps read my post from a few days ago. Yesterday’s post starts the process of signing up for Cluster Maps and shares how to install a Cluster map on Blogger. Today we will work with WordPress widgets. Tomorrow we will work with WordPress for those who do not use widgets and perhaps we will finish and work with regular websites too. The Duchess, Digital © Diane Clancy Hopefully you have read yesterday’s post and have already copied the code you need for the Cluster Map. If you need to, go back and get the code from the Cluster Maps site. For most cases option A is just fine. If you use widgets, login to your admin panel. Then go to “Presentation” to “Widgets.” Widgets will be on the line underneath Presentations after you choose Presentations. Look to see if you have a “text” widget under “Available Widge ...

Would you Like a Cluster Map? 2007-09-21 21:06:12 So you would like a Cluster Map? Follow along and we will get you set up! (A warning - The post got long so I am going to start everyone tonight and finish Blogger. Tomorrow we will look at the different ways you would put it into WordPress.) The Peacock Queen, Digital © Diane Clancy First you may want to reread my post with the overview of Cluster Maps. Next click on the Cluster Map on the bottom of my sidebar (the map with all the little red dots). You may want to open it in a new tab or window so that you can read and do this at the same time. Alternatively, use this link to open up to this same step. (http://clustrmaps.com/getone.php) One this page click on “Register Here” and you will come to another page. I chose the regular (the default) - which is free. Starting with “http://” put in the name of your blog or site. You need to enter your email twice for confirmation of the right email. Then read the “terms of service” and check that you ...

Behind the Screen 2007-09-20 17:19:23 Some days there seems to be silence … but there is much going on behind the screen.  I am glad to hear about you. Behind the Screen, Digital © Diane Clancy ~ Diane Clancy ...

Cluster Maps 2007-09-19 19:43:03 Cluster Maps are a free tool that anyone with a blog or site can use. I think they are an incredibly exciting tool! If you go way down to the bottom of the sidebar here, you can see the Cluster Map. It is a map of the world with little red dots. The smallest dots represent 1 - 9 visits of people to this blog. The next size up is for 10 - 99 visits to the blog. Turtle Batik, Digital © Diane Clancy After that size, the larger one is for 100 - 999 visits to the blog. Are you getting excited yet? The largest red dots represent 1000 or more separate visits to this blog (or any other blog or site). When you first get a Cluster Map, you start with a blank map of the world. According to some formula, the Cluster Map gets updated regularly. It is such a great experience to watch the map accumulate red dots - these are PEOPLE - real, live people who have taken the time to come and visit!!! If you look at the map (at the bottom of the sidebar), you can click on the map and it will show you a ...

Local Cultural Council Grants 2007-09-18 20:23:00 Maps and such will come tomorrow. I did learn about the Local Cultural Council grants. I have never applied for a grant before and am excited. But it took a lot of energy. If I don’t get to bed, this painting is what I will be like tomorrow …. I am delighted to hear what you have to say. Turtle Man, Digital © Diane Clancy ~ Diane Clancy Technorati Tags: Local Cultural Council, grants ...

Received “Nice Matters” Award 2007-09-17 18:41:26 In the next few days I am going to teach people how to get set up with several different statistic counters - stats. Three of these that I like are Cluster Maps, Stat Counter, and Map Stats. You can take a peek at them on my sidebar ahead of time if you want. Sometimes Map Stats disappears but it is often there. So, make sure you come by the next few days! The Labyrinth, Digital © Diane Clancy Frances was kind enough to award me a “Nice Matters” Award! Thank you, Frances!!! Here is a bit of what Genevieve has to say about this award she created: A new Friendship blogger award ! So I have noticed a lot of blog awards out there lately, and it has gotten me thinking about nominations. … there is caring, friendship and inspiration too. So I am starting my own blog award! This award will be awarded to those that are just nice people , good blog friends and those that inspire good feelings and inspiration! Those that care about others that are there to lend support or ...

Day of Rest 2007-09-16 19:18:51 Physically, this is me today … needing a day of rest - I got very chilled - … I will catch up tomorrow hopefully. Hope things are good for each of you … I am delighted to hear if you want to tell me. Thank you for your patience and understanding! Quaking, Digital © Diane Clancy ~ Diane Clancy ...

The Other Form Delayed … 2007-09-15 19:27:53 Here is one of my special images on merchandise in my CafePress Shop (www.cafepress.com/dianeclancy)  Susan took photos today that will hopefully be good enough to make into more “Fanciful Animal Images.”  Thank you for your comments about the forms and email from yesterday’s posts.  Famous last words of getting the other section done - almost nada. Freckles in Flowers II, Digital © Diane Clancy This little baby was my companion for 18 wonderful years!! One of my best friends ever!!  But, on the bright side, I commented on many posts today from around the web, and read lots more than I commented on! So I hope I got them all caught up!! ~ Diane Clancy Technorati Tags: Fanciful Animal Images, CafePress ...