Website Overhaul

So have been busy today overhauling the website, trying to get rid some of the dross and generally tidy it up and give it a template make-over, bring it more inline with this here blog! 

Surprising just how long it takes though, been at it all day and only really just finished. Have managed to, hopefully, delete some of the no longer used images and claw back some of the 100MB they originally gave me, a pittance by today's standards but not sure there's any way to get more for free.

Was going to remove some of my old Picasa albums too but now they seem to have been sucked in, or at least managed by Google+ I've already learnt a valuable lesson about not deleting because Google+ removes your images EVERYWHERE they appear so when they are gone, they are GONE! So for now they can stay - safer that way.

Wish there was a better way of displaying images and associated text, Simon who gave us the talk on blogging at camera club on Friday said don't get hung up on trying to make everything line up because ultimately it's not worth it. Easier said than done when you are OCD like me and like everything neat and tidy. Tables are my usual GOTO format, the images and text can fit into the cells but it's table width's I struggle with afterwards and usually end up dipping into the HTML code, not that I really know what I'm doing there without copious Google searches! However for my latest page on Firework Photography I tried a different layout format and that seems to have worked quite well so might have to experiment some more with that type of thing.

I've had Elvis 30 #1 Hits on repeat all day and in between sitting at the laptop I've been bopping around the house, shaking my booty to the music, beats my usual Oldies compilation CD of all sorts of stuff downloaded off YouTube as music only, titles such as Allan Sherman - Hello Muddah Hello Faddah  (1963), Ernie The Fastest Milkman In The West - Benny Hill and all manner of old songs :-)

Right, time to go eat some tea, and have a break from the laptop by settling down in front of the TV with yet another Columbo movie - taking my mind off what will hopefully be my last week of jury service next week - joy (not).