We’re running a Your portfolio online course in Faversham at Creek Creative artist studios on Friday 30th July, 10am – 4pm.

The course will cover preparing images, creating pages and making online galleries.

It is imperative that you book in advance, so that your free web space can be set up beforehand. Email workshops@growdigital.net or phone Jake on 07802 535 321 to book a place.

Also, please note that you need to bring:

• A username to login with.
• A name for your blog.
• 3 sets of 6 images in digital format, preferably on a USB memory stick or on a CD.

Laptops will be provided, and you will also be given a Free Software collection.

Creek Creative studios can be found at No.1 Abbey Street, and their web site is at www.creek-creative.org.

I appear to have devised a fairly straightforward way of adding addtional thumbnails without too much bother.

1. Select the thumbnail previous to the one you want to insert in the Gallery Index page.
2. Press the `return` button.
3. Click the `Add an image` button and add a thumbnail as before.

Here is the video:

Howto add floating WordPress thumbnails from Jake Rayson on Vimeo.

Due to unforeseen circumstances, we’ve had to cancel the workshop this Friday 30th July.

The next Your portfolio online workshop is on Friday 27th August at Creek Creative

We’re running a Your portfolio online course in Faversham at Creek Creative artist studios on Friday 30th July, 10am – 4pm.

The course will cover preparing images, creating pages and making online galleries.

It is imperative that you book in advance, so that your free web space can be set up beforehand. Email workshops@growdigital.net or phone Jake on 07802 535 321 to book a place.

Also, please note that you need to bring:

• A username to login with.
• A name for your blog.
• 3 sets of 6 images in digital format, preferably on a USB memory stick or on a CD.

Laptops will be provided, and you will also be given a Free Software collection.

Creek Creative studios can be found at No.1 Abbey Street, and their web site is at www.creek-creative.org.

1. Copy the link
2. Select the text you want to be a link
3. Click the anchor link button
4. Paste in the link

Here is the rough cut of the video, more polished versions will be made in the future!

Howto add links in WordPress from Jake Rayson on Vimeo.

The plan is for GrowDigital.org to be the space which showcases student’s web sites, and where people can post questions.

The site uses BuddyPress, which is a WordPress plugin and which provides “Social networking in a box”.

This site, growdigital.net, will be the home of workshop outlines, notes and tutorials.

What this means in practise is that I can create satellite web sites for artists very quickly and before the workshops commence, making the workshops even more efficient and streamlined.

What this means in simple terms is less time setting up, more time learning and creating your own site.

A late notice to say that I’ll be running a Your portfolio online workshop at the Horsebridge Arts Centre in Whistable, Kent tomorrow, 10am-4pm.

The workshop covers the principles of image editing and retouching, and then swiftly moves on to cover putting up your very own gallery site.

The price is £60, and there are some space still available.

Phone Jake on 07802 535 321 if you’re interested.

You just have to create two pages, one called Home, the other News (or similar) and then go to Settings > Reading and set the Front page displays static.

I have also changed my Permalinks to Month and name, so that the year, month and postname are displayed by default, and then I’ve given each of the ‘static’ page URLs a custom Permalink. Nice and easy