{"id":45,"date":"2018-02-16T07:05:05","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T07:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/?p=45"},"modified":"2023-02-27T14:13:23","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T14:13:23","slug":"first-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/?p=45","title":{"rendered":"First steps&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello.\u00a0 After a 5.25am wake up call from my son, I couldn&#8217;t sleep.\u00a0 So I decided to have a tinker here&#8230;Welcome to my first ever blog on <strong>Smudge on the Lens<\/strong>!\u00a0 You\u2019d not believe how hard it was coming up with a camera related website name.\u00a0 I thought I\u2019d been inspired coming up with something around the Sunny 16 Rule, but someone had beaten me to it on every turn.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>At the moment my first forays into web design aren\u2019t going to well.\u00a0 Currently when I type in my web address I get a \u201cThis site can\u2019t be reached\u201d message, even though it\u2019s working on my mobile.\u00a0 Sadly, I\u2019m no where near enough of a pro to know what\u2019s going on.\u00a0\u00a0<em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">My rather handy husband told me to Run a dialogue box and type in &#8220;ipconfig \/flushdns&#8221; and that seems to have done the trick.\u00a0 See, not in a million years would I have come up with that solution.<\/span><\/em><br \/>Right now, the plans and vision for my website far outweigh the knowledge and talent I actually have!\u00a0 I\u2019m hoping in the future to have a page that showcases some of my photographs. At the moment, only the basic structure is in place, but it\u2019s lacking the \u201cme\u201d feel.\u00a0 Hopefully I\u2019ll get there in time.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>My current mini project is creating a site logo.\u00a0 It\u2019s very rudimentary as you can see.\u00a0 I was aiming for a camera lens with a \u201cS\u201d smudge in the middle.\u00a0 You\u2019d not believe how many times I drew that \u2018S\u2019 with the mouse\u2026and it\u2019s still not ideal.\u00a0 I also need to work out how to make the edges translucent.\u00a0 This is very much a work in progress&#8230;<br \/><br \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/smudge.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-72\" src=\"http:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/smudge-297x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"297\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Update<\/strong> <\/em>&#8211; you need to use Paint.net and use the magic wand feature to select and then delete out the unwanted white parts.\u00a0 Then, the image was saved as a .png format, which supports transparency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello.\u00a0 After a 5.25am wake up call from my son, I couldn&#8217;t sleep.\u00a0 So I decided to have a tinker here&#8230;Welcome &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1667,"href":"https:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/1667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smudgeonthelens.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}