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Hiccups in feed, Facebook like

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 19:33:02 -0400

Hiccups in laundry?

I have had some trouble deciding how I want dates to work as there is both a Date Created and a Date Modified for each page and you can tell Sandvox which to use to display on each blog post and which to use to sort the blog posts in the blog. In some ways, it would make more sense to have a Date Published, but I've been kind of shifting back and forth and those of you who are subscribing to the blog via email have probably been wondering why the Katydid post came up on the top of the list this morning instead of my recent blog post, Thoughts about Sovereign Grace Ministries. Well, I'm not sure either but it's probably because I've been messing with the dates. I did more of that today, so who knows what will be on the top of the list tomorrow (Monday), but hopefully this will be. After that, hopefully, it will settle down. I am still moving posts from my old site here; I don't know if they will show up in the feed as if they're new posts. Hopefully, things will settle down after tomorrow.

New software: from iWeb to Sandvox

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 17:08:06 -0400

My theme this month seems to be new software... I'm in the process of converting this site from iWeb to Sandvox which is a fair amount of work as you have to copy over each blog post, one at a time and then fix formatting on links in the post. I will miss iWeb in some ways as it had a lot of nice features for making a very pretty site. I loved the ability to include shadows and reflections on my photos. The shadows gave the photos a three-dimensional feel to the site, which was pretty cool. Unfortunately, the shadows no longer work in Firefox. They might start working again if I republished the site, but it doesn't seem worth it.

Flowers from a bush out front of our house.

On the other hand, I was tired of iWeb's very poor commenting system and its limits on inserting html boxes -- such boxes had to be in fixed locations on the page and text couldn't flow around it. That meant that if you didn't allow enough space, you might find them overlapping a text box. The other huge drawback was very weak commenting system -- no way to subscribe to comments via email or RSS feed and commenting only works on MobileMe. That brings me to the next drawback to iWeb: MobileMe is going away in June 2012. iWeb sites can be hosted elsewhere on the site but then you lose comments and some other nice features altogether. Also, Apple is no longer updating iWeb though you can still buy it. I hoped for years, that Apple would fix the comments, etc, but I'm giving up now.

Updates to site

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:49:06 -0400

The sky as seen from our local Safeway Monday night -- it caught my eye as I got out of my car.

Just wanted to mention a couple new things on the site.

On my home page, there’s now a link to use if you want to subscribe to my blog by email as well as a link to the RSS feed.

I’m also twittering now, so have added a twitter feed -- “what I’m doing now” though at times it’s my last response to someone else’s twitter. If you’d like to follow me on twitter, create an account there, if you don’t already have one, then go to my twitter page and click “follow”. I’m also planning to send a tweet each time I add a blog article here or on the Peace in Chronic Illness blog.