Feb 26

Learning Curve

We are still working on resolving the gallery issues.  It is a learning process.  Tonight I have uploaded some of Jeanne’s photos.,  learned to create thumbnails for them (but there should be an easier way) and made a link for the gallery on the menu bar.   I still need to work on sorting them though.  The software seems to just throw them out there randomly.   Some of them kept the dates they were originally posted and others changed the date to today.  Very confusing.

We still aren’t happy with this way of listing the galleries.  We will need way too many to list on the menu bar.  Jim thinks, when we run out of room, it will just drop down another line.   At that rate, we might wind up with half a page of menu bar.  We need to figure out a way to make them drop down from one menu listing.  Jim says it may require a different template, but I’m very fond of the tree and the blue bars.  We’ll see.  I intended to change templates every month or so…it may be difficult to do if the template is going to limit what we can do with the galleries.

They say learning new software helps to keep your brain healthy and stave off Alzheimer’s.  This process seems like the equivalent of lifting 300 lb. weights.

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Feb 24

Welcome everyone!

I for one am looking forward to the new Mamaw’s Homeplace. As they say change is good… and what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Trust me when I say using this blog software won’t kill you or even make you ill, but it will help to improve our connection to each other in keeping in touch and sharing things such as pictures that are large enough that you can make prints if you want.

We’ll be getting each of you setup with a login account over the next few days so look for an email from sis and give the blog a chance as it’s an easy way to express yourself.

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Feb 23

Progress Report

The previous post has been re-entered three times, so far. Hopefully, this will be the last, it’s getting kind of tired.

We have decided to use the blog as the front page. The site will still have some of the features from before, but the look and functioning will be much different.

Jim has installed a totally different gallery package. During the next week or so, we will re-create everyone’s galleries and upload the most recent photos. If you haven’t posted any new ones during the past couple of years, your gallery will be one of the last ones set up. Priority is going to those who use the site the most.

So far, we’ve only made email addresses for me, Jim, Jeanne, and Kenneth. No one else appeared to be using those either. If you want an email address here, let me know.

I will be adding more pages along the way as well. Comments are invited.

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Feb 23

Moving Is a Pain, Even in the Virtual World

I hate moving.  Packing everything up, shipping or loading it all, sorting it out at the destination, unpacking and arranging, searching for days to find things, fixing or replacing whatever got broken in transit…

We’ve moved our site to a new server.  We’re experienced at this.  We’ve done it before.  In spite of that it is a disaster.  Well, I guess it could be worse.   At least most of it is salvageable.

We prepared, like the professionals we are, by backing up the site.  We downloaded all the photos to my computer, so we could put them back, if necessary, although the gallery software promised to import them from the old site.  It’s not happening.  We haven’t given up yet, but we may have to simply rebuild all the galleries and upload everything manually.

We forwarded Kenneth’s saved emails from Vickie to my Outlook mailbox, so I could send them back to him after the move.  Jeanne said she wasn’t worried about her saved emails as long as her email address kept working.  Well, it works, but the security system on the servers where she works don’t like the new email protocol.  She can’t check her email from work.

Since there was no recent activity for the blog, we didn’t save the old posts.  Later I wished we had.  There were a couple of things there I would have liked to have kept.  I just didn’t think of it in the rush to get everything done.    Kind of like moving in the ‘real’ world.  You always overlook something.

So, the website looks kind of crappy at the moment.  The gallery links don’t work.  If you type in /gallery at the end of the web address, you can get there, but there’s nothing to see.  Please be patient.  We are working to get everything fixed.  When we are all unpacked and everything is properly arranged, we’ll send out messages so everyone can come visit.

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