Friday, July 14, 2006

New picture links - yeah!

Was it only last weekend, or the weekend before? I spent a few hours upgrading the picture links on the personal part of my tapirback.com web site. I'd been wanting to turn the text links into picture links, re-think some categories, and reorganize folders. I finally found a format I liked, changed some color backgrounds, and . . . I like it!

That was a big improvement, and it was also groundwork for the hundreds of photos, drawings, and other bits and pieces I'd like to put together on the site, like a travelogue, scrapbook, etc., all in one. I don't know when I'll find the time, but since summer has been just a bit slower in my online store, I thought I'd take the opportunity. It was fun. Usually when I get a break from that, I work on The Tapir Gallery (which by the way, still needs major remodeling). I've been building tapirback's various locales since 1996. It feels like a house that you keep improving - only maybe better. You don't need a dumpster to make the changes.

Hmmm. Next time I'll find out more about blog formatting. I would have liked to have all of the pictures on the left with the text wrapping automatically as it did around the first picture.

I've spent a lot of time coding very basic html. There are a number of formatting types I haven't used at all, some rarely, and some I learned recently and promptly forgot. If you don't use it, you definitely lose it with the new things. But web coding is one of the coolest things I've ever learned. What else combines art, logic, writing, presentation, preservation, and costs almost nothing in and of itself?

Add instant gratification, and it is not only addicting, it's SUCH an amazing technology. . . . Links? So simple! I once wrote an entire book wishing I could use something like LINKS from point to point in the explanations. But that was before links and web pages had been invented. More on the book some other time. That's one more project I'd like to resurrect and re-invent for the web site. Oh well, many thoughts, many projects, and it's later than I meant to stay up.

3 comments:

tapirgal said...

James, the animal on this post is a tree kangaroo. It's smaller than a tapir - more like a mid-sized dog. Follow the Tapir Gallery link to see lots of tapirs. They're more the size of hogs, but they're related to horses and rhinos. Thanks for asking! :) Hey, how did you find the post so fast?

Sheryl

tapirgal said...

Hi again James,

I took the picture of the tree kangaroo in a zoo. I don't know how approachable they are in the wild or in a zoo. I don't know that much about them, except they're marsupials from Australia.

Yeah, it's fun looking at blogs to see what people are doing and get ideas for formatting, etc. I have already changed some of my site around. If you go back to the original post for these comments, you can link right to the picture menu page I was talking about and also to the tapir pictures. I have so much more I want to do, it's a never-ending project :) I liked your post about your son's birthday.

Sheryl

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