Messages By Marlow » events

Kettle Crest Advocacy Fest

Scott Marlow — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:18:52 +0000

Sherman Peak - site of 1988 White Mtn. fire

Jen and I just returned from a weekend mountain bike festival, the 2010 Kettle Crest Fest.

Friday, our trail work party cleared more trees than we could count from the Sherman Peak Loop trail (photo above, ~6,000 ft.). Then we enjoyed two days of some of Washington State’s finest singletrack – including a 2,000′ descent of the Jungle Hill Loop.

The annual advocacy event is hosted by Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance and coordinated by volunteer Tim Banning. Lucky for us, New Belgium Brewing was a sponsor!

Wacktastic Holiday Light Show

Scott Marlow — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:00:04 +0000

WordPress CSS Theming: Scott Marlow

Greenwood/Phinney residents can now enter the 2009 Wacktastic Holiday Light Show Contest!

This is my second year sponsoring this North Seattle community event by providing website development. The new site is powered by WordPress, and features an embedded GoogleMap that accepts batch uploads of contest entries.

Don’t miss the December 20th Awards Party.

Graphic Design credits: Beegee Tolpa, Kelly Davis.

WordPress Boot Camp

Scott Marlow — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 14:39:25 +0000

What I learned at WordCamp:

For WordPress.com-hosted blogs, there is 1 theme for every 6,000 sites.
For self-hosted blogs, there is 1 theme for every 3,000 sites.
31% of visitors post blog comments [source: Forrester Research]
95% of WordPress blogs are hosted on Apache-Linux (vs. Windows IIS)
Include numerals in Permalinks (for PHP optimization)
Replace your default admin user (for security purposes)
Recommended plugins: Clean Archives Reload, Dashboard Scheduled Posts, Gallery2, Headspace, Maintenance Mode, NextGen Gallery, No Self Pings, Revelanssi, Twitter Tools, WP DB Manager, WP Open ID, WP Security Scans, WP Super Cache
Read How To Be a RockStar WordPress Designer by Rockable Press
Read Trust Agents by Chris Brogan
Read PHP Solutions by David Powers
Read Six Pixels of Separation by Mitch Joel
Setup Feedburner (vs. RSS only)
Use Starkers Naked theme
Be Authentic
Blog

Thanks to Adobe for providing free space.

City Chickens–No Roosters Required

Scott Marlow — Mon, 04 May 2009 15:27:00 +0000

Yesterday, Jen and I completed our volunteer project for the Sustainable West Seattle Festival. After drumming up some sponsors for the event, we presented table information from 10:00-3:00 on raising ‘backyard’ chickens. Jen also presented a workshop at 10:30 for a few dozen Festival attendees (her picture even made the West Seattle Blog).

Stay tuned for a tour of West Seattle chicken coops this summer. Contact me if you are interested.