Tracy Updating Her Site

The other day I posted that finally CoffeeTalk, Tracy's personal blog, had returned. Tracy has started making some entries, so you should check it out. In her latest entries she talks about the dinner party that Courtney had last weekend as well as her return to the world of blogging. I have no doubt that these are just the first of many entries to come.

Welcome back Tracy!

I've made it real easy to get there. Just look to the right and you will see CoffeeTalk in the main menu; or just click on the image above!

Return of CoffeeTalk

If you have been reading this site for a long time, you might remember that Tracy had her own blog for a while. When I made the move to my Mac I switched to a client side based web authoring program and lost the ability to easily control where her blog (or journal) appeared. Recently an add-on to RapidWeaver was released into Beta and this add-on gives me the ability to sync her Blogger Blog to my website. What does this mean? Well it means she can independatly update her blog using Blogger and then just tell me she has done so and i can quickly sync it over to my main site. Her Blog is now tied into KellysWorld keeping the same look and feel as the rest of the site.

You can check it out now by clicking on CoffeeTalk to the right of this entry in the main menu, or simply go to her page directly at http://www.kellysworld.net/coffeetalk.

More Photos Added

I've added more photos under the Family Archives section of the site. For now I am just pulling all photos of Mom, Dad and Brion; my eventual plan is to limit these photos to the more distant past. I'm still going through and dating photographs and creating various albums in iPhoto. I will add more photos hopefully over the next several days. Trying to get a bit more work done on this site and EternalMagic. You should be able to view the photos just fine regardless of the system you are using. The photos will show-up in a Flash slide show that should play in most browers, including Dad's.

New Site Feature

I've added a new feature to the site, it is a beta test for the site and I don't know if I will keep it or not. It adds a calendar that ties directly into iCal on my Mac. Basically, it makes my personal calendar available for view by family and friends. It's limited in the fact that it doesn't combine the various calendars of iCal together, you have to publish each one separately. That is by design of iCal. A different concept, but one that typically works very well. One very cool feature is that it does allow for someone to subscribe to the calendar if they have access to either iCal or a calendar program that works with iCal. Can't say if I will keep it or not, but will try it out.

Don't Bookmark Photo Page Links

I would suggest not bookmarking any of the photo pages on my site, at least not for the time being. The file structure is not what I prefer at the moment, so it the coming days I will change it. I wanted to get the site up and live, but the photos were added at the last minute. While they all work fine, the file structure needs work. Nothing major, but I wanted to warn those that might be inclined to bookmark individual albums. In any event, it is best to just go to the main page and then work your way to the album of your choice. I seldom keep things very stable and love to move things around. I get that from my mother.

Major Web Update --- Again

Today was a huge day for myself and my family. Today my grandson (well, as soon as I say "I do") was born. Yes, yes, I am a grandfather. Hard to believe isn't it? It's such a big day, that I thought it was the perfect opportunity to launch the latest version of my website. You will find that it has again gone through a major overhaul and this time around is a little more ambitious and I think much better looking.

While I want to take all of the credit, a great deal has to go to Rapidweaver. That's the software I use to design the site. It takes a great deal of the grunt work out of building a website, leaving the creative side to flourish as best is possible. I have a long way to go on "great web design" but it isn't too bad at the moment. My website has always been a work in progress and that will never change. There are already a few things I want to change and those will come with time.

Until then, if you haven't recieved an e-mail with the password to see the pictures of Baby Carlos, e-mail me and I will forward that to you.

Updated Eternal Magic Journal

Check out the Eternal Magic Journal, it has actually been updated. Okay, so it is just one post, but one post is better than none... right? The entry is all about our wedding rings and some of the current plans for the wedding, now less than 11 months away.

ETERNAL MAGIC JOURNAL

New Look for KellysWorld.net

With the new year I have given KellysWorld a new look. Some of you had said the old look was too dark. I personally like that black look, but decided I would give some different looks a try. Not hard to make those changes, so why not!

Check out KellysWorld.net and let me know what you think. I think in the next few weeks I will put up screen shots or test pages with different looks to see what everyone likes.