School is out, and as a consequence I have more time to continue working on the website: Here is an update.
The Upgrades fall into two categories: Blogging and Photo Galleries. I like having both, but I haven’t really been happy with the solutions I’ve tried in the past - that’s the main reason this site gets worked on so often.
Blogging: I am using a program called Wordpress to run the blogging portion of the new site: its free, popular, and powerful. Using this system I can update my blog (this page) from any computer, or from my phone, quickly and easily. This is something that the previous web site didn’t do well; in fact, any update to the last website took at least a half hour. Most of that time was waiting, but still quite time intensive. This works better, and as a consequence i have been posting more often.
Photo Galleries: Go ahead, click on the “gallery” tab up at the top of the page. Most of the blogging programs don’t do photo galleries well, if at all. The last website’s photo galleries looked great, but like the blogging, any change took forever. Now I am using a program called Gallery2 to run the galleries. Like Wordpress, its free and powerful. Best of all, I can upload pictures directly from the program I use to manage my photos, Aperture - or, if I’m not at my computer, I can upload from any browser. Pretty cool.
The trick has been to integrate these two separate programs into a seamless site. Getting these two programs to work together has taken the most work, but this phase is now done. Now I can turn my attention to the look of the site. These changes will be more obvious, so stay tuned…
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