Gatlinburg TN
Every now and then, someone points out that I haven’t blogged in forever. Not quite true. I blog nearly every day. What doesn’t happen is the posting. At the very least, I make detailed notes of the day and what I want to blog about. I have to sit with some of the entries for a while, to make sure I got the tone right and expressed the feelings and ideas accurately, while omitting unnecessary words. “Coat of Many Colors” and “The Good News” would be examples of that. Some entries, like the one I’m working on about Tom’s mother, aren’t connected to a specific day. Those I work on even longer, trying to make them better pieces of writing.
We have a fairly involved process for getting photos ready for the blog and for online viewing. We have been so busy lately that we haven’t even taken photos off our camera cards. I’ve been procrastinating on posting to the blog because I don’t have photos to share. If I were to post them as they are now, without processing, it would be a nightmare to go back and fix. I finally looked at a calendar, muttered under my breath, and decided to post without pictures.
I’m trying to figure out how to post some of the extra material we’ve accumulated. Some of you have asked for budget information because you’re thinking of doing a road trip some day. Some of you have asked for gasoline/mileage data. We’d love to post restaurant reviews and other notes that might come in useful when any of you pass through places we’ve been.
For us, the answer is a web site. Kelly wants to write it in PHP. It’s a great language, but I don’t know it. I’m more familiar with HTML. We’re both pretty good with CSS and XHTML. Sorry about the geek-speak – we can’t agree on a language to use to develop the site. We have style clashes, too. Her work in web design required her to build and implement sites that were totally complete. My work experience is in building large sites in phases. We have agreed on a design for the home page and a layout for the site itself. We’ve also pretty much decided to build our own blog within the site so that we have better control over how it works.
Every now and then, someone points out that I haven’t blogged in forever. Not quite true. I blog nearly every day. What doesn’t happen is the posting. At the very least, I make detailed notes of the day and what I want to blog about. I have to sit with some of the entries for a while, to make sure I got the tone right and expressed the feelings and ideas accurately, while omitting unnecessary words. “Coat of Many Colors” and “The Good News” would be examples of that. Some entries, like the one I’m working on about Tom’s mother, aren’t connected to a specific day. Those I work on even longer, trying to make them better pieces of writing.
We have a fairly involved process for getting photos ready for the blog and for online viewing. We have been so busy lately that we haven’t even taken photos off our camera cards. I’ve been procrastinating on posting to the blog because I don’t have photos to share. If I were to post them as they are now, without processing, it would be a nightmare to go back and fix. I finally looked at a calendar, muttered under my breath, and decided to post without pictures.
I’m trying to figure out how to post some of the extra material we’ve accumulated. Some of you have asked for budget information because you’re thinking of doing a road trip some day. Some of you have asked for gasoline/mileage data. We’d love to post restaurant reviews and other notes that might come in useful when any of you pass through places we’ve been.
For us, the answer is a web site. Kelly wants to write it in PHP. It’s a great language, but I don’t know it. I’m more familiar with HTML. We’re both pretty good with CSS and XHTML. Sorry about the geek-speak – we can’t agree on a language to use to develop the site. We have style clashes, too. Her work in web design required her to build and implement sites that were totally complete. My work experience is in building large sites in phases. We have agreed on a design for the home page and a layout for the site itself. We’ve also pretty much decided to build our own blog within the site so that we have better control over how it works.
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