WildSuburbia!

I finally finished the first “mini-photo essay”, which you can find in the Stories area, the left-most egret in the roost.  Hope you enjoy it.  There’ll be more to come…

Haven’t posted here in a while.  But I’ve been very busy under the hood. Many modifications, tweaks, and improvements to the underlying software that runs this site.  It’s a slow process, because decisions need to be made re: functionality/features that will not be easy to change later.  My goal has always been to have a “dual-purpose” site.  By that, I mean the standard “by species” image gallery that, well, everyone has.  But I want a way to allow you to sit back in your chair, relax & be entertained with content that is not necessarily “taxonomic”.  Content along the lines of the introduction.  I needed a way to easily showcase, for example “The Creatures of the Pine Barrens”, etc., etc., and integrate that content in a sensible way into the flow of the site.  It has been a 3 steps forward/2 back exercise, but I’m a lot closer.  The challenge is to provide rich functionality with an intuitive interface.  I’m hoping it will be all that I strive for it to be.  In the end, you will decide.  I haven’t posted many new images, I’m holding off until I can freeze the feature set/layout.  In the meantime, feel free to look around.  I’ll try to post here as I enable other parts of the site that are currently “under construction”.  As before, SHIFT-Refresh is not a bad idea if you want to be sure you’re seeing updated pages & links.  Thanks for being patient.

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Neil

If anyone has been here previously, you may have noticed a major change in the blog appearance.  I’ve had to change from b2evolution to WordPress due to my inability to get the blog/gallery integration working properly.  I still have a great deal to do on the interface details, but the integration seems to be working well at this point.  I have a _lot_ of links to update…

Well, back up, for the time being.  A lot of changes under the hood last few days, necessitating taking some parts of the site offline, breaking a few others, but we’ll get it sorted out!

If anyone would like to register in order to leave comments, contact me, etc., at least for the time being, you’ll need to register in both the News/Blog area (here…), as well as the Image Gallery area.  It’s OK to use the same username & password for each, in fact that’s preferable. Ultimately, I want to have one login for the whole site. I’m workin’ on it…  Other than that, slowly populating the image galleries w/ categories & images.  Eventually, I’ll try to get a “new stuff since your last visit” thing going, but none of the software I’m using does that without some heavy tweaking.  Hopefully soon…

Well, we’re finally online… mostly.  Feel free to look around, but things will be changing a lot in the coming days/weeks/months.  The galleries still have a lot of unpopulated categories, etc.  The one thing to keep in mind is when you visit here again, it is prudent to refresh your browser often, if you want to see any updates.  And by all means, let me know about any bugs/mistakes, etc. This has been/is/will be a huge learning experience for me, since I’m doing this site by myself.

I’ll be spending a lot of time processing images & populating the galleries, but I’ll try to post here as well.

Thanks again for stopping by,

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