Design for web and print
As I have decided to concentrate more on my photography and am giving up the riding club committee and webmaster role at the end of 2012 it is time to prune the hosting.
I put the Burstow site on Cloud Next as they have separate cpanel for each domain – so making it easier to organise.
Also a new service from MacMate is supposed to be a replacement for Mobile Me – the Mac cloud service which comes to an end very soon. I signed up to test it and added my GML Images site to it, at the moment I haven’t altered the nameservers so this site is still on CloudNext as well. This also include 10GB of storage to may be useful, they intend to added galleries so watch this space to see how it all works out.
123-reg is still the place to use for domains but I will probably move the hosting to CloudNext. It gets expensive to have them all in different places.
This site is on the free WordPress.com app as is the GML Images blog and I will keep it that way for now.
The Horley site will either use Blogger or I will make a Joomla site, depends who takes over next year.
A while ago I played with Joomla but couldn’t get to grips with it. However I have a commission to update the local community radio station website. They want more functionality than WordPress seems capable of, so I have watched some videos and done a course with Learnable – I was luck enough to be picked via Twitter for a 3 months free account.
Joomla seems to make more sense now I have broken it down and got a new grid based template via
Cloud Access
Needs more work and another consultaion with the radio station people – seems to be endless iteration meetings recently.
Will post a link once completed – station goes live in July so should be time to finish!
Will do a WordPress course too after the php and MySQL one!
I have a Blogger site for my riding club – as well as a WordPress one. Must choose which one to keep. As the blogger site no longer lets me edit templates I may be forced to use the WordPress one.
Blogger interface
The interface for the template design is blank.
If anyone has any ideas please leave a message, these are moderated as all I keep getting is spam. Constructive comments will be listed but will not show up straight away.
Well it seems my virus checker is doing too good a job, once turned off I can edit the templates. So it is turned off for the required amount of time then turned back on.
As I have been getting too much spam and really want this site as a normal website rather than a blog I have disabled comments. If you want to get in touch with a real query or useful comment please use my comment form. Many comments have been nonsense and/or from people with dubious web addresses.
I set up a WordPress site for a charity but as they never sent me any content I couldn’t up date it very often. Now they have asked someone else to set up a website. Will wait and see how it goes as they say they are too busy to let me have content, I hope the new people have better luck. Sorry rant over it just upset me that I had offered to do a website but can’t afford to pay hosting etc as a retired person. Hence the WordPress blog site.
After Burstow Park Equestrian Centre’s site was hacked it has been taken down and i have rebuilt it. All should be Ok now. Just need some more new content to up date for 2012.
There is a rescue centre in Sussex in need of some help – either financially or physically. More information is on their blog site, I set this up for them as they don’t have time to spend doing it themselves. Someone has offered a proper website so this may not be around for long.
Earlier in the year I signed up to be a Digital Champion and have been consulting with a local voluntary radio station to help them up date the website. Also I am available to help older people to get online – so if you know anyone who needs a little assistance with new technology please contact me.
As yet I haven’t found any where locally that needs any help but if there is any organisation in the RH1 or 2 district of Surrey then I am available. I use a Mac but will willing assist MS Windows users – even though I sometimes find it frustrating. Having used computers at work and home for a number of years I am fairly confident with computers.
Our first computer was a Sinclair ZX 80 and over the years have used Sinclair Spectrum and Amiga machines.
I enjoy using photography software – Adobe Elements and CS5 are my current applications.
If you want to learn more about these – perhaps so you can send images to relatives then contact me if you are local to Redhill, Surrey, UK
Just updated to the latest version of WordPress and so far everything seems to be working OK. I back up the data base, folders and theme settings just in case anything went haywire.
I am quite liking WordPress – it is easy to update and the new drag and drop for media may well be useful.
Plus I took the plunge and updated the theme as well. After reading the advice in forums and on WordPress I uploaded the new version and previewed it before making it live rather than updating the theme from within WordPress. That way if things don’t go according to plan the old version can be reactivated.
123-reg has been excellent in sorting out my ineptitude. I have bought more space but as yet it doesn’t show my new site. I made a site to showcase some of the designs I made and/or altered. The links to these sites at the moment are to my idisk, this will cease to be once I have migrated my Mac account to the icloud. The new site shows up at gmldesigns.co.uk but not if the www. goes in front. Hopefully after 24 – 48 hours it should show up correctly.
Oh what a lot of learning I have done over the past few days.
All is now Ok although it was very slow yesterday and there was some problem with it showing up for people using Chrome. Well this is not an essential site and the Horley and District Riding Club site seems to have transferred OK.
