Release 1.0 of taylorspot.com is now GA
Every so often I gird my loins and embark on a Web publishing project for my family. That time has come again. We just had our fourth child and first daughter, and have begun construction on a new home. There are lots of milestones to mark for distant family and friends. So, here we go again.
A year for a dog is like seven years for a man, I’ve heard. Internet years seem to fit that scale. Every time I undertake this project, the tools and techniques are entirely new. Our first Web site in 1998 offered images taken from VHSC tape with a frame-grabbing gadget that connected through the parallel port on my computer. The site was hand-coded in FrontPage and sported a little button recommending Internet Explorer for the best browsing experience. Remember those?
Every time I’ve taken it up, the task has gotten easier. My latest effort uses WordPress for the blog component and Gallery2 for photo management. A WordPress plugin called WPG2 (WordPress Gallery2) glues them together. I can’t say it was entirely push-buttons and checkboxes to get everything working, but we’ve come a long way. In another 10 years, this stuff may actually be user-friendly!
Here’s what you need to know.
- The blog is http://blog.taylorspot.com/
- Photos are at http://photos.taylorspot.com/main.php
Clicking a thumbnail in the blog takes you to an embedded version of the gallery. Same pictures, just shoehorned into the blog frame.
If you have a “My Yahoo” home page or its equivalent, you can configure it to display our new headlines using RSS. You just need to know our RSS feed, which is http://blog.taylorspot.com/feed/.
As the title suggests, this journal will be updated on the same schedule as our other Web properties–in fits and starts. Life’s busy, but in the most wonderful way. Thanks be to God.