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2016-01-13T20:27:00-06:00

AUTODESK HITS PORTLAND ON MAY 19TH! (2011)

2015-07-05T20:20:00-05:00

Come join us as Autodesk’s top Application Engineers demo the 2012 lineup including Maya, 3ds Max, Softimage, MotionBuilder and Mudbox! Experience the powerful integration within the new Autodesk Creative Suites as artists cover new features of the 2012 releases. This is a great opportunity to...

Autodesk Hits Portland 3.0!

2015-07-05T20:20:00-05:00

3DV would like to thank all of you that were able to attend (over 200 attendees) the Autodesk Hits Portland 3.0 event at the Mission Theater. Thanks to your support and enthusiasm, Portland events continue to be the best attended in North America! There is no doubt, creativity is booming in PDX!We hope you enjoyed the event as much as we did! Thank you again to all of our sponsors: Autodesk, 3DPDX, VFX/PDX, Wacom, 52 Limited, and Anthro. We hope you will keep 3DV in mind when shopping for Maya, 3ds Max, MotionBuilder, Softimage, Mudbox, ZBrush, V-Ray, Wacom Cintiq, Adobe and many other graphics tools. We look forward to seeing you all at the next big event!We invite you to provide any feedback on the event – Please let us know what you liked or where we can improve. We want to make next year even better! Please feel free to stop by our office near at 21st and Burnside (near Jeld-Wen Field) and try one of our 3 Cintiqs on display, see our new Anthro Elevate II or learn about the latest Autodesk and V-Ray promotions. Check out the FREE MeshMixer (A tool for making crazy-ass 3D stuff without too much hassle).

Maya 2011 mental ray rendering solutions

2015-06-01T09:11:00-05:00

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Autodesk Platinum Club Recognizes 3DV Corporation

2015-02-02T03:31:00-06:00

It is often said that relationships are the key to business. For this reason we were delighted when Katie Salsbury and Paul Hook of Intermountain Aquatics contacted us with an opportunity to participate in a complex residential wastewater treatment and disposal project in Victor located on the eastern most edge of Idaho. This joint effort may be the first between our two companies', but we are hoping to lend our experience and expertise in many eastern Idaho projects to come.

Set in the heart of the Teton Valley and just west of the Rocky Mountain Range, Victor is one of the most beautiful places in Idaho. Home to just 1800 residents, this little home-town community has caught the eye of many potential full and part time residents recently. And for this reason, the protection of land and water resources is of paramount importance to preserve these resources for future generations. Intermountain Aquatics has literally made it their business to improve and protect Victor's natural landscapes.

Offering environmental planning and design-build habitat restoration services, Intermountain Aquatics saw an opportunity to provide wastewater design-build resources to their clients as well. Due to groundwater, nitrogen and regulatory restrictions, secondary wastewater treatment systems may be needed on many future residential and commercial construction projects in Teton Valley. Through extensive research, Paul Hook, Intermountain's Senior Wetlands and Watershed Scientist, determined that Orenco's AdvanTex wastewater treatment packaged system demonstrated features, benefits and value above and beyond the other available solutions. During Paul's research, R.C. Worst & Co. also stood out not only as Orenco's exclusive AdvanTex dealer in Idaho, but as a company capable of lending early support in this new venture.

It is often said that relationships are the key to business. For this reason we were delighted when Katie Salsbury and Paul Hook of Intermountain Aquatics contacted us with an opportunity to participate in a complex residential wastewater treatment and disposal project in Victor located on the eastern most edge of Idaho. This joint effort may be the first between our two companies’, but we are hoping to lend our experience and expertise in many eastern Idaho projects to come.

Blog Post 1

2015-02-01T23:04:00-06:00

This is an example of a sandbox post for testing WordPress Themes and web page designs to ensure every design detail within the content area of a Theme meets with your design needs.

To use this sandbox post for your own testing, right click the following link and save the file as a text file. Open it within a text editor and select all of the text and paste it into your WordPress site with the HTML/TEXT editor – not visual editor. Save the post or publish it to view the post content designs.

This is the link to the sandbox post text file.

This sandbox post is available for free. Use as you wish.

At the top of this paragraph should be the H1 heading for your web page. If it is not visible, the design settings for the H1 tag is set to display:none which many WordPress Themes use to hide the blog title text and replace it with a graphic. Do not use H1 within your blog post area.

If the design in the H1 heading looks like your blog title or blog post title, then that is the style set for that HTML tag and you should not use it within your blog post area.

Inside of this test data section are most of the basic HTML and XHTML and CSS styles that you might use within your WordPress Theme. You need to know what that will look like as part of structuring your styles.

This is the H2 Heading

Above this paragraph should be the H2 heading for your web page. WordPress Themes use the h2 heading for various purposes. Logically, it should be either the post title or the first heading in the post content.

However, it is used all over WordPress Themes including the subtitle, tag line, post title, comment area, sidebar area, and even in the footer. Be specific when styling each h2 headings to ensure you are not styling all of them.

THIS IS THE H3 HEADING

Is this the same heading as is in your post title or is this the section headings found within your sidebar? Or is it different? This is the post content heading for the HTML tag h3, as is the one below, H4, for section headings within your post to divide up topics. If there is an H3 or H4 tag in your sidebar, you will need to identify the parent HTML and CSS container for the sidebar and style those appropriate in your blog’s stylesheet.

For more information in searching for your styles in your WordPress blog, see CSS: Studying Your CSS Styles.

Also notice how the links in that paragraph are styled so you can style links within your post content area. Links have three styles. There is the link color, link hover color, andvisited link color. Be sure and design for each style.

This is the H4 Heading

In this section under the H4 heading, we’re going to look at what the post content, the meat and potatoes of your site looks like. In general, you will have multiple paragraphs, so we will add another paragraph so you can adjust the spacing in between them to the look you want.

Paragraphs are not just for typing your blog babble, they can also hold frame and hold other information within your content area to help make the point you want to make in your writing. For instance, you will commonly have three types of lists.

General Lists using the <ul> tag
Ordered Lists using the <ol> tag
Definition Lists using the <dl> tag
- Definition Lists use two other tags to generate the list:
  - <dt> sets up the word or phrase to be “defined”, usually set in bold, and
  - <dd> sets up the definition, which is usually in a normal or slightly smaller font and indented under the definition.
And that’s the end of the lists

And we’ve just tested a paragraph before and after a general list along with a nested list to help you see what at least three levels of the list will look like. Make sure that each level of the list is styled to match your specific needs. You might want to use the default disc or circle, or you might want to add graphic bullets to your list, too.

This is the H5 Heading

While the H5 heading is not always used, maybe you might find a need for it if your H1 and H2 and H3 headings are used. You might need one to two levels of subheadings in your post content, so this one gives you another option.

We also need to look at the other two lists and then add some images and other styles to flesh out your WordPress Theme sandbox.

You need to do this first.
You need to do this second.
- You could do this in between.
- Or give this a try, too.
But this is the third and last thing to do.

This should give you an idea of how a nested number list would look on your site. Now, let’s look at a definition list.

WordPress Themes: A WordPress Theme is not a “skin”. Though many young people call it one. The reality is that a WordPress Theme contains many files that come together in various ways to generate a WordPress web page. A “skin” simply changes the look, and rarely the results.
WordPress Plugins: WordPress Plugins add flexibility, features, and capabilities to your WordPress site. There are hundreds to choose from. Some add power and control like monitoring and busting comment spam and enhancing your administration features. Others add fun things like random elements and polling and rating systems.

And here is another paragraph to show the relationship between the various parts and pieces.

TESTING FONT LOOKS – H3 HEADING

You will need to test the looks of the different font styles, too. This is bold and THIS IS BOLD. This is italic and THIS IS ITALIC. This is bold and italic and THIS IS BOLD AND ITALIC. This is code and THIS IS CODE. And now let’s look at what the PRE tag, also known as the preformatted tag, looks like:

This is the pre tag.  It should be formatted as written       so if you add spaces to the front of the line    it will show the spaces and the <code> as written

This should be back to the normal paragraph style and we hope you have been paying attention to the margins and padding around each element, including the paragraph, so you can position things appropriately to the rest of the content.

Your CSS Here – H5 Heading

Let’s look at the blockquote, one of the most common tags used in most blogs. It is designed to “frame” a quote from another blog, website, or reference that you are “quoting” from. For the most part, there are three examples of usage:

This is a simple quote. It is either preceded or followed by a link within the text to the credited source. A blockquote must be designed to stand out from the rest of the text content, but it does not have to “really” stand out, just separate itself from the content so we know it’s not your words.

A second style to the blockquote is one that includes a citation. Under HTML guidelines, this citation should be wrapped in the <cite> tag and then that tag can be styled to be in italics, bold, or whatever look you want in your design.

Take care with the style of the <cite> tag as some WordPress Themes use it in the comments area. I recommend you style it specifically with blockquote cite {style declarations} in your stylesheet.

This is an example of a blockquote which also contains a link to Blog Design and Layout articles on the WordPress Codex, the online manual for WordPress Users, to help you see what links will look link within a blockquote.
LORELLE ON WORDPRESS, YOUR GUIDE TO ALL THINGS WORDPRESS AND BLOGGING

The citation includes a link and text to help you see what a link and text will look like within the cite tag.

There are many tags that can be found within a blockquote, just as can be found within any container within your web page design, but a last example includes an unordered list. Many bloggers love to quote examples from lists, so this is a good tag series to test.

Within this web design sandbox test page, we’ve tested:

Headings

Text styles like bold and italic

Ordered (numbered) and unordered (bullets) lists

Links

Code and PRE tags

Blockquotes

And much more…

Which should show you what a list looks like within a blockquote.

Each website is unique with it’s own look and feel for the various parts and pieces. This cut and paste section looks only at what you might have within your content section. So if you will have boxes for lists or little aside information, you will need to add them so you can see how they will look in the overall page layout.

Some elements in a WordPress Theme are controlled by the style sheet, while others are controlled by the Template files. Try to work on as much as you can from the style sheet first, then you can mess with the template files.

Remember, any changes you make to the style sheet and template files will be not available if you change themes. If you want them carried over, you will need to copy and paste them into the new Theme folder.

As a last element in the content area and throughout your site, check the hypertext links. These are the links to external websites and/or internal pages within your site. They come in three flavors: active, visited, and hover. Make sure you work on the styles for each of these.