Summer has arrived in the Central Valley. Temperatures have been 105+ the last 3 days. Today's forecast is for 106. So far it has been bearable. I just keep all the windows open at night to cool off the house to around 75 then get up and shut windows and blinds around 5am. This keeps the house below 80 until around noon and then the air conditioner kicks in. I never thought I'd ever feel that an indoor temperature of 80 was cool. If I forget, all I need do is open the front door for a few seconds to get a face full of hot air.
Mom sent me lots of letters from her Aunt Luella with a bounty full of family history and ancedotes. I'll be summarizing it all for my website in the near future.
Friday, June 27, 2003
Saturday, June 21, 2003
Ok, everything is working as it should be. It was my browser cache of the page that was causing the lag in posting updates. Time to go public with the website.
One of the purposes of this website is to leave a history of my family. My brother and I and one cousin are the last in line on my mom's side of the family and neither of us have children of our own. (Not sure about the cousin, have only recently learned of her existance.) For some reason I am feeling this compelling need to document our family and publish it on the internet since there won't be anyone else around to do it once we are gone. My mom's parents both died soon after she was born and she was put up for adoption so we don't have the benefit of that resource for history. I have several hours of an interview with one of my mother's aunts on cassette tape before she passed away at the age of 99. I plan to transcribe it and post it here eventually. There are also many personal letters between her aunt and husband during their world travels in the 40's and 50's that would be of interest to posterity.
That project should keep me occupied for many days.
I'm on the look out for a better photo gallery utility to use. I really don't like the inflexibility of the FrontPage version. Anyone have recommendations? It needs to be a freebie or shareware since I can't afford to put much more money into this at the moment.
One of the purposes of this website is to leave a history of my family. My brother and I and one cousin are the last in line on my mom's side of the family and neither of us have children of our own. (Not sure about the cousin, have only recently learned of her existance.) For some reason I am feeling this compelling need to document our family and publish it on the internet since there won't be anyone else around to do it once we are gone. My mom's parents both died soon after she was born and she was put up for adoption so we don't have the benefit of that resource for history. I have several hours of an interview with one of my mother's aunts on cassette tape before she passed away at the age of 99. I plan to transcribe it and post it here eventually. There are also many personal letters between her aunt and husband during their world travels in the 40's and 50's that would be of interest to posterity.
That project should keep me occupied for many days.
I'm on the look out for a better photo gallery utility to use. I really don't like the inflexibility of the FrontPage version. Anyone have recommendations? It needs to be a freebie or shareware since I can't afford to put much more money into this at the moment.
Friday, June 20, 2003
Thursday, June 19, 2003
Hello family and friends!
Welcome to my corner of the world! Sure feels good to finally have the foundation for this website working. I need to trim down the captions in the photo galleries and do some other tweaking. I got rather verbose with my memories. I'll talk more about that later.
Now that I have a good understanding of how FrontPage works, my next project is to tackle this monster website my mom created. Be forewarned, it is graphic intensive and takes a while to load. It's called What Is Art? and needs to be completely torn apart and put back together in a more efficient manner. Many of the artists are anxiously awaiting the completion so they can have us add pictures of their newest work.
Feel free to offer up any suggestions for improving the site. It's a work in progress and I'm very eager to get it right.
Welcome to my corner of the world! Sure feels good to finally have the foundation for this website working. I need to trim down the captions in the photo galleries and do some other tweaking. I got rather verbose with my memories. I'll talk more about that later.
Now that I have a good understanding of how FrontPage works, my next project is to tackle this monster website my mom created. Be forewarned, it is graphic intensive and takes a while to load. It's called What Is Art? and needs to be completely torn apart and put back together in a more efficient manner. Many of the artists are anxiously awaiting the completion so they can have us add pictures of their newest work.
Feel free to offer up any suggestions for improving the site. It's a work in progress and I'm very eager to get it right.
Yes! It works! Everything works! Comments, blog, FrontPage....it all works! I started with a clean slate, new page, applied the theme, then used an InLine Frame to insert the blogger page into the new page. Blogger ftp's the updates to my blog over to my domain and then FrontPage inserts that page into another one as a special frame and it all seems to work. Don't ask me who what when or why or how....I just stumbled upon the configuration after wrestling with it for a day or two.
