I spent an hour or so this morning with my new webmaster, fine-tuning and double-checking my soon-to-be-revealed updated website. I really like it and hope you will, too. It is very much simpler than the present site — just three main parts, really — A short welcome/introduction from me (which you can skip if you already know me!) my blogsite, and a section about my books — descriptions, where they can be purchased etc. which you can also skip. My blog will still be accessible on Facebook or directly from my Website each day. AND, you will be able to search on any of my previous blogs by entering a single word (any word you remember — like “chickens”) and up will come every blog in which that word was used! Wow!
As I think about that particular feature, I’m wondering how many discrepancies in my information we’ll find. I know for a fact that over the fourteen years I’ve been blogging, I’ve learned new historical facts and have probably incorporated them into newer blogs. So, the question is: do I go back and correct earlier “mistakes” or leave them as an example of how continued research helps you fine-tune the historic picture? I imagine it will be a case-by-case decision and I hope that some of the history buffs among my readers can help me out with the “consistency versus evolution” discrepancies as they make themselves known!
The website, overall, is simpler and less-cluttered feeling – or at least it seems so to me. I can scarcely wait until the unveiling to learn what you think! Bottom line, of course — my blog, The Oysterville Daybook, will remain much as it has always been except for the ‘search’ enhancement. I think we are scheduled to go “live” around the 17th of April. Fingers crossed!
I don’t know if I am truly interested in the answers to those questions or not. I’m actually delving deeper by the day into a new book which, if I let it, will probably gobble up all my “free time” for the next year or so. At the rate I’m going with those scrapbooks and boxes, they’ll still be there jammed to overflowing. And I’ll be another year beyond remembering why I kept all that “stuff.” The only positive thought along those lines is that I’m no longer keeping new stuff. I think the last scrapbook (if I ever get to it) will be for 2019. But… maybe a variation on O’Keeffe’s Travel Boxes might work.
If you want, the can print it out to look like book copy — proportionally spaced and justified on the right — but I think that looks fussy — I wanted it to look like I had taken individual care with each letter. Anyway — I spent a couple of days there — training on the machines is free. I’m addicted! Have to make a fortune & buy an IBM machine!
I feel like it’s my birthday, Christmas and an Easter Egg Hunt all wrapped into one! A new FAAAST computer sits on my desk. And what’s more I’ve managed to jump every registry and password hurdle without too much angst and, so far anyway, I don’t see any huge glitches on my desktop or even behind those cheerful icons. Everything is where it should be and all is right with my world. Let the blogging begin!!
Also, lighter weight. Because all those software programs and other add-ons can now be downloaded and charged to your credit card with no trouble at all (YIKES!), new laptop models are apparently coming without DVD/CD players. They are no longer needed and without them, laptops are slimmer and weigh less. And faster than my fingers can keep up with!