KellysWorld
I Love Stats
I’ve had a website now for almost a decade. I started back in 2002 so my family could share the building of my first house. I continued through my first downsizing (may their never be a second) and of course all the way through my wedding and beyond till today. I even created a seperate site for my wedding, eternalmagic.com. I love writing and just playing with kellysworld; continually striving to make the site look as polished as possible.
The one nagging question, “is anyone reading?” Thanks to services like Facebook and Twitter the answer is “YES!” Not a lot of people mind you, but more than just me and dear old mom. Mom, you are reading aren’t you? The attached graph shows views are up. Nothing major of course, but it’s cool to see it going up a little and being steady.
I think, in the end, I enjoy tweaking my website as much as I enjoy writing. That could be my downfall. For me though it’s just about relaxing and having fun.
Test Post – Wordbooker
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Check Out My Mobile Blog
To help me blog a little more, I’m trying Tumbler out again. The tool is easy to use and lets me do many cool things, like tie directly into FaceBook. It’s easy to get to, just go to: blog.kellysworld.net.
Tracy and I are off to Boston, so this tool should allow me to better share my experiences while in Boston and Maine. Tracy is graduating this Saturday, if I have a good enough signal on my phone I may try and use UStream so that those not attending can actually watch some of the ceremony.
Until then – Happy Trails! We get up at 3:00 and our plane leaves at 7:00 am. Going to be a long day tomorrow.
Fixed My Website Twitter Blues
It looks as though I have fixed the issues I was having on my website and posting automatically to Twitter that I’ve updated this website. I think I’ve also fixed the issue with the daily entry with all of my Tweets for that day. I had to uninstall all of the Twitter widgets for my website and then re-install the one I wanted. Even then it didn’t work right away; but then mysteriously it did!!! I had problems like that, I may never know what was wrong. I will kick myself too if I find out it really isn’t working. I love how works, and how easy it is to use… but when I have a problem it can be a bit of a pain to figure out what the heck went wrong.
Twitter Issues
Seems as though Twitter is making changes to their back end and it is impacting some of the Twitter solutions that I use. Primary the ones that allow me to cross post from Twitter to Facebook and those that allow my Tweets to appear daily on KellysWorld. I read that changes were in progress, but hadn’t heard they were already in place. It’s all that I can think of because solutions that were working, are currently not working. It’s a little annoying. Doesn’t seem to be much I can do about it at the moment, one of the issues with using lots of “free” services; it makes complaining very difficult.
Photos – Update to Site
I’m working on “upgrading” how I handle photos on the site. Taking a bit of a queue from how I decided to handle video, I’m going to use Flickr. While YouTube is pretty much the king of video on the net right now, Flickr has been the king of photos since it’s creation several years ago. While it’s feature set hasn’t changed a great deal, it’s still the big boy on the street and does what I want it to do.
I’ve had a Flickr account for ages but stop using it when Apple upgraded to MobileMe. While I like how they handle photos, one glaring omission is the inability to embed photos in other places; like my website. Flickr does allow me to do this, and while Flickr has other limitations, it’s still pretty slick.
If you look under the Galleries menu you will now see one that says Flickr. From there you can either click and go to my primary Flickr page or you can go down through the menus to categories.
Be advised that I haven’t uploaded too many photos in the past year to Flickr so I have some uploading to do to get the site more current.
I did upload some old family photos this weekend, so there is some fresh content available. You can also see how I can embed a slideshow into the website. Like I said, slick.
I will probably also keep some photos on FaceBook. Many of the people I know use FaceBook and I have to admit, it’s pretty handy. Especially if you have a modern smart phone.
