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What I've Been Up To

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Published by Nevada Motojicho in This & That · 20 July 2020
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What I've Been Up To

If you've wondered where I’ve been and what I've been up to, I’ve been building a website.  Initially, I intended only to create this blog page but I had a software (WebSite X5 Pro) that I had purchased about two years ago which included a feature for adding a blog to a site as an all-in-one package.  I thought I’d use it instead of building a static page from scratch.  That was a mistake because it meant I pretty much had to build a whole website around the blog.  My reasoning behind building a new blog page was because I feel that Google will soon follow the other media hosting sites and begin limiting simple nudity on their platforms.  If I host my own page, then I make my own rules in that regard, right?

I’m not familiar with this software because I purchased it for an ex-friend who was going to build the NAUI site for me; then the friendship went sour.  I have the software only because it was the software the ex-friend was most comfortable with. I’ve built many websites in my past and although I’ve always used basic table structures to build the frame, this software is quite different in that it formats each friggin' cell and it’s driving me crazy.

My experience building webpages began back in the early 90’s when I would save documents in html and and ftp them up to AOL back in the day.  As the times evolved, I graduated to WYSIWYG programs such as the early Microsoft FrontPage and their graduated product ExpressionWeb.  Dreamweaver and a few other CSS style sheet-based programs also come to mind.  Those programs built pages using code over objects.  This WebSite X5 uses tables but it is object oriented and each individual cell and the component within each cell requires definition as does the effects of the component itself once it’s dragged into a cell.  OMG! I’m pulling my hair out.

In the end, the site is turning out what I was hoping for but I’m still pulling my hair out as it’s a lot of trial and error.  Especially with any forms that might be contained within the site as I’m having problems relaying the information to the MySQL databases being hosted on the server level.  I still believe it’s a server issue and not anything that I’ve done.  Also, I’ve experienced the server pointing some of my permissions to a different (closing) domain that I additionally own.  That issue probably won’t resolve itself until that domain expires this coming October.

In the meantime, if you are reading this blog article now, you are technically within the new website.  The site itself is pretty much complete except for the recipe page – that part will take a while to finish as I need to recreate each section from another site – the one mentioned above being hosted on that closing domain.  Anyway, when I said above, “if you are reading this blog article now,” I mean because each time that I tell the application to update the pages to the site, it overwrites ALL of the pages rather than just the changed updated pages.  So, next time you visit the site, this article may not be here.  Oops!  Oh crap, there it went again.

Nonetheless, I’d appreciate any feedback you have if you have the time to review the site.  I’ve worked hard on some of the effects such as with the photo gallery.  The photo gallery opens the thumbnails in a shadow box and then allows zoom and full screen views.  Also, I worked hard on the links at the very bottom of the page where I have links to other bloggers that I follow; I made their entire webpages open in a scrollable shadow box.  I think it’s pretty cool, don’t you?  Check it out on the page by clicking “back home” located above.

Thank you and, enjoy your naked day my friends!  :)

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If you'd like to leave a comment but don't wish to provide your real email, just type something like, 123@123.com in that field. :)

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