Matt and Ashley Faus

Welcome to our website! These pages recount our most excellent adventure... life! Currently, we are living in the San Francisco bay area, with good weather and great roads for motorcycle riding. Married life is simply awesome, and we are enjoying every adventure that comes our way. Take a look at the pictures and blogs, and let us know what you think with your comments and replies!

I finally got around to posting some videos on our website!  Ashley and I generally take videos whenever we take pictures, but as of yet, they have not made it onto the website.  Today, all that has changed.  The videos will be embedded into the blog posts, but to quickly gain access to an index of them, you can click the Video Post category link on the left navigation bar.  Enjoy!

I have updated the website to the latest version of WordPress. I have been putting this off for a while because I figured it would be a lot of work, but it wound up only taking an hour or so. The admin interface is pretty cool, but I have not noticed any cool new features yet. I really wanted to get video working on the site within WordPress, but I think we’ll have to create a YouTube channel to do that.

Posted some pics from a hiking trip I took a few weeks ago, and also from a recent friend’s visit for Spring Break.

I just uploaded nearly 100 pictures taken over the month of December, check ‘em out!

I just uploaded like 200 new pictures which include the wedding, condo hunting, and our California trek.  Mainly the wedding.  There are 140 pictures in that gallery!  Sounds like a lot, huh?  Well there were 600 taken in all.

Enjoy!

Oh yeah, I also finished the Contact and Archive pages.

Alright, we’ve made some good progress on the site. I took the Paalam Theme I found in WordPress Theme Viewer and made a lot of customizations to work for us, and then I installed the NextGen Gallery plug-in for the pictures. NextGen is really awesome in that it is completely WordPress-integrated image management suite and it is really easy to work with. There are a few convenience features missing, but once you get the workflow down, it’s not so bad. I felt pretty good whipping out my good ‘ole PHP skills to get the theme and plug-in (both open source) edited to suit our exact needs, and I’m pretty excited about the results! We have a few more tweaks to make, which I’ll document below, but I hope you enjoy the results so far!

Upcoming Features:

• Sidebar slideshow displays images from ALL albums
• Tweak the design of the Slideshow View / List View links… they look out of place
• (?) Can we add captions in the NextGen slideshow?
• Make the sidebar slideshow more subtle with 15sec fade in/out transitions
• Create dynamic header images that randomly switch on day
• Figure out a sleek way to post videos
• Much more!

Hey everyone,

If you have found this post you will notice that MattFaus.com has changed drastically. I am currently in the process of updating everything to be super cool, so standby!