Invisible Beautiful

Sorry

Elaine — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 02:05:13 +0000

Sorry for anybody that clicked on ‘my testimonial’ that page isn’t finished yet and i didn’t mean to publish it lol sorry, i know it looks bad in there

anyway, looks like nobody likes my boring thursday thirteen… I just always make those things about what’s on my mind, and it just so happens that being OFFSITE is on my mind, thus this new blog which is off my regular website… and i’m excited about the new photoblogging service.. so this stuff is what i write about lol sorry.

Thursday 13 – #8

Elaine — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:49:49 +0000

Thirteen reasons to use offsite services… for blogging and such

1. you don’t have to worry about upgrading software anymore

2. you can downgrade your website account to a tiny inexpensive package

3. you don’t have to figure out complicated installs anymore

4. your website dude will be happy you stop bugging him

5. you can stop trying out different photoblog apps

6. you don’t have to upload your photos a zillion times

7. you don’t have to export your blog entries a million times

8. having your own website is good, but can quickly become alot of work to manage the software

9. you can stop redesigning and making yer brain hurt

10. you can stop pulling your hair out because stuff doesn’t work

11. it’s ok if people laugh at you

12. no more mysql!!

13. and last but not least, no more getting hacked!!!

you can visit my new OFFSITE photoblog here it’s hosted at shutterchance and you are already visiting my offsite blog

cheers, and visit other TT’ers here

shutterchance

Elaine — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 10:37:42 +0000

I decided to get a photoblog with the shutterchance.com service…. it may be true there are only two templates to choose from, but luckily I am in love with one of them lol it’s clean, simple and quite beautiful, and you can choose between a black background or a white background, i prefer the white… and now i no longer have to worry about my pictures being too big, many of my older photos are too SMALL lol..

Also I will be moving this blog over to wordpress.com, and off my site, i intend on getting all my apps off my site. so i will just have my front page, and my Christian page, and my husband’s gallery, none of which are apps.. this should keep me from being vulnerable to attack..

I’ll just be real pissed if wordpress.com or shutterchance suddenly go belly up… that’s happened to me before, grrrr…

Sorry I missed you

Elaine — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 06:01:04 +0000

Hi Elaine, actually I’m still busy rethinking all of this, my most recent idea is to get rid of my website all together and just have a blog and a photo blog, on OTHER people’s servers lol i’m sick of getting hacked and all the hassle that goes with keeping this site up… i’ll let you know what i think, as soon as I know what I think lol

rethinking

Elaine — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:28:52 +0000

Ok, i revamped the design so that it’s now a photoblog I’m creating, and people can leave comments on individual posts, even if i do have more than one, a couple of thumbnails in it… I’m just starting to upload pics but you can look at the birth of my photoblog here, it’s called shuttering. let me know what you think!

Ok, Sherri, whose opinion i value, has said she doesn’t like the wordpress photoblog for some very good reasons, so i guess i’ll populate the pixel post one and see what you guys think of that. I know there’s a wordpress plugin for getting a thumbnail from a pixelpost blog. I installed a black theme on it with no problems, and i think it looks not bad, wish it had a batch upload though… anyway, the pixelpost blog is here but there’s not really any pictures in it yet…

making a new photo gallery

Elaine — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:05:36 +0000

I have decided to separate my gallery and my regular blog, that way template issues won’t get in the way, right now it’s so hard to find one template that works with both. if i take the gallery out of this blog, then i can use them purday skinny templates
Somebody recommended pixelpost, and I installed it and such, but didn’t like the templates, i had a plain white photo gallery before and got bored with it. So I figured I might as well stick to wordpress, and just use a blog template, instead of the boring photoblog templates… wordpress photoblog templates don’t have thumbnails, i hate dat.
So now I have thumbnails, but no comments on each individual photo. because I’m using lightbox. I imagine having no comments for each photo will make me nuts too, and it’s not a photoblog, it’s a gallery, so i can’t join all the photoblog rings… hmmm.. perhaps i should rethink this.

I heart WordPress

Elaine — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 05:15:13 +0000

I can always find a source of endless amusement by looking for wordpress themes that work with my gallery. WordPress should be infinitely proud of themselves for creating a web community that works the way the web SHOULD work. Easy to use software for those of us who are more challenged than the rest, creative out of the box themes, doesn’t get hacked every 10 minutes the way movable type does. I used b2 before there was wordpress, but i had to tear it down because of trackback spam. I think b2 sites STILL have that problem, because I recently had a website built with b2 that had a spam problem. the only problem I am concerned with for wordpress is the inability to create multiple blogs without reinstalling and starting from scratch for the new blog. who do i donate to for loving wordpress? is there like one person?

Tom Waits – Hold On

Elaine — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:45:17 +0000

Talking about concerts on other blogs, and memories… I should have a ton of memories, because i used to hang out with a major groupie, and she took me backstage at every huge rockstar that ever came within a 500 mile radius of our home town. She had sex with them, and i took pictures… lol not pictures of the sex, pictures of the musicians.

I lost all those pictures when my photography locker got broken into. sad, i could have sold them on ebay today.

but after i got older, i could never pay for a concert when i used to get in anywhere for free. it took somebody really special for me to get out, and i saw laurie anderson when we first moved out to bc, but years later, and this one i’m proud of, the tickets sold out in 3 minutes flat, but a friend of mine got some for us. right in the eighth row. TOM WAITS, can you believe that i’ve seen him? even i can’t.. the show was so magical, that i tingled the whole time, and during a tiny lull someone even yelled out ‘you’re magic!!’.. it was the mule variations tour, great album.. if i could be any musician in the world, it would be tom waits. anyway, enjoy the video!

YouTube – Tom Waits – Hold On.

all night long

Elaine — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 22:25:35 +0000

Well, as it turns out, i was up all night, working on my new template, trying to get good pictures up in the header… at first i started out with a flickr badge, which was pretty but i could not for the nuthin’ get it to point to my galleries onclick. trying that took till about 11 this morning.

Now I’m working with a plugin that gets pictures willy nilly all over my blog and when you click on one of those they take you to a post i just happened to have a picture in, instead of to my galleries. i put little pink arrows between the pics, if anybody thinks to click on them it will take them to the galleries.

Not only that, the plugin isn’t working correctly, i’ve got it to display 10 pics, and everytime i took a pic out, it didn’t put back another one!! so it says 10 but i’ve got 7.. what a bummer that is. maybe if i deactivate the plugin and try again.. hmmm…

So i have to stay up all day too, to help my hubby move stuff from one storage place to a different storage place.. and we just had brutal (in a good way) back massages yesterday, i’m bruised i’ll tell ya that for free lol… aaah well, guess i will have some coffee!

quiet time

Elaine — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 11:46:11 +0000

I’m up late drinking chocolate milk and smoking cigarettes. I like the quiet time, after my husband has gone to bed and the house is shut up for the night, all the lights are out, and it’s just me and the glow of my computer. my husband uprgaded his phone today, got a fancier one, and I bought a tiny camera, it prolly takes crap picks, but its’ so cute. I bought it in blue coz they were all out of pink, i phoned back to ask if i could exchange the blue for pink when the pink came in. they gave me a hard time, finally i convinced them that i wouldn’t touch anything, just turn the camera on and check out features, but i can’t open the manuals coz they are sealed, and i really can’t figure out how to change the menu. it seems to be set on vivid colors and all my indoor pics are coming out yellow, but even when i magically find a menu to set pics after the fact to different color settings, it’s still yellow… oh well i guess that’s what i get for buying a cheap camera