The West Ring

Lily Practising “Wait”, originally uploaded by Iain@Flickr.

I have now created the gallery. It is currently just on the default template and I haven’t even begun to investigate my options. I’m sure it’ll be fairly plain though! (Not through my lack of creative juices, but because I don’t want to detract from my marvellous photography )

Note - the links (above and right) are currently set to open in a new window because there isn’t a “Return to homepage” link on the gallery yet. Just another item on my to-do list!

Not that anyone is likely to care, but this is Gallery v2 and it was v1 that I had on my old site. How does it compare? Well, it was far easier to install for a start! It was almost just a case of creating the database, uploading the zip file, extracting and stepping through the install wizard.

Right, enough waffle - it’s playtime!

Just to keep him happy & show that I can be a geek too

I had previously said that I was going to keep the Blogger front page, but have since changed my mind. After posting that, I tried to make some template changes and found some limitations with Blogger when publishing via FTP to my website. So, I took another look at WordPress and wasn’t quite so scared by its complexities.

This doesn’t mean I’m going to start to do anything too flash (due to a complete lack of creative juices!) but it does mean that I can make changes when I want to. The priority remains building a Gallery.

Iain’s edit - this was me testing on Jennie’s behalf. Currently Shozu don’t have a version of their app for LG phones. It would seem the only way to moblog via Shozu is to send the pic as an MMS/email, resulting in the generic title. When I get a chance I’ll look into alternative methods.

Seeing this always makes me laugh.

Just a quick post to say we’ve moved. The hosting of the website that is, not physically!

It’s been a long time coming (forging a new career got in the way) but I’ve wanted to sack 1&1 for a long time now. It wasn’t so much that their server went bang and lost everything, it was the fact that they dragged out restoring the backup for months…only to then say “Oh, this has gone on too long, your backup is no more!” Turns out the useless tossers only keep backups for three days anyway! So quite how (and why!) they managed to drag it out for so long is beyond me.

Anyway, good things come to those who wait! I am now paying half the amount for a much better package and level of service. The new host is TSOHost and so fary, so goody. I completed the purchase shortly before 1700 yesterday (Friday, 28th Dec) and they had me up and running almost immediately. The support ticket I opened with a question about the domain transfer was answered very quickly too.

One of the reasons for moving was to be able to create a MYSQL database. This means I can create a new, super-whizzy photo gallery - probably using Gallery v2. This may take a little while for me to complete so please bear with me. Once it’s done I’ll upload all our photos (I hadn’t bothered after 1&1 lost the old website because I knew I was going to move it).

I think the front page will stay as the Blogger blog because I’ve got the moblogging working well.

Right, off for a Wii at the Outlaw’s!