Joel's WP Blog
The theft of the computer I used to do my programing for the site cost me my Shutterbug and iWeb files. I foolishly had deleted the backups of these files from my host. But the silver lining is that I’ve simplified everything and created a more logical structure to the sites. Now that I have things set up again maybe I’ll be able to spend more time posting.
If you visited during the last few days you were greeted by a message that the site was unavailable. That was because I locked everything down. I did that because we were burglarized and all our computers were stolen. I’ve brought the site back up now since I think I have successfully blocked any access by anyone who may have found access information on the computers that were stolen. Needless to say all passwords have been changed.
If you have any problems accessing any parts of the site, let me know.
I’ve finished another redesign of all my websites and gotten them merged so that there is just one front door to everything. Still have a lot of stuff to get back. This redesign started from scratch except for this blog. The biggest take down was the photo albums. I’ve given up on Gallery. Just too slow and cumbersome in spite of all the great features it offered. I will be working on getting the media that was there back up in the new redesign.
Hope anyone who visits finds something of interest.
I’m really loving my new MAC! After having used Windows for so many years and dealt with the frustration of the speed (or lack of speed!!) of doing anything on a PC the speed, simplicity, and stability of MAC is like a breath of fresh air. However, I have had to give up some of my favorite software including my favorite editor (1st page by Evrsoft.) BUT… I have now found ShutterBug by Xtralean and with a minor adjustment to my way of approaching things I’m beginning to find it ALMOST as good as 1st Page. The major difference is that with 1st Page I had unfettered access to the code from inside the package. That access is not there with ShutterBug but I’m finding ways to do what I want with out it.Anyway, I’m having fun playing around with it and about 5 other apps and who knows, I may even start adding to this Blog on a regular basis. One of the appeals of ShutterBug is that it’s design has everything needed to do really good galleries. As I’ve said elsewhere on one of these sites I’m very disappointed with Gallery’s speed and the cUnVegas.com website has been languishing from lack of attention while I pondered what to do about it. I’ve been experimenting with several PHP alternatives but haven’t been really excited by any of them.Now that I’m getting the hang of how to work with ShutterBug I’m ready to get to work on that.Back to work now.