This is going to be great
Rich gave me a tutorial today, which was mostly us both browsing around here and saying, wow, this is going to be so much easier/more fun/less stress, AND we can do so many more interesting and exciting things. Now we just have to explore and learn.
Which I’m working on. Tonight’s job is to post a couple of pictures. Here goes. So first we have part of the group stitching on Sunday morning, before the clouds moved in and blotted out the sun. It’s a really nice space when the sun’s coming in.
Next, Tammy working on the forehead cloth. I’m having trouble with the formatting, probably because I’m still thinking in terms of how I had to do things on the old program.
Rich saw the comments about the troubles viewing the blog on Internet Explorer. He’s hugely apologetic, but there’s not much he can do right now.
Because we got to a crisis point with the old program, he had to throw up a new one without “tearing down” the old blog. This meant we weren’t off line for any length of time, but it also meant there’s glitches. He can fix them, but they’ll take time, and they have to wait their turn on his to-do list. A lot of the problems have to do with IE’s peculiarities. If you can view the blog with any other browser (like Mozilla Firefox) you should be OK.
Please bear with me as I learn this, and enjoy the improvements!
January 17th, 2008 at 9:25 pm
I love the new format. I can click on the pictures and see them really big. Thanks for my favorite site to check every day!
Lynn
January 18th, 2008 at 5:57 am
Really appreciate you going to the trouble of making sure the site stays up while you make the changes. Just look how much of the silk embroidery has been done on that forehead cloth!
CA
January 18th, 2008 at 8:19 am
The new pcitures are wonderful, very clear and big. Great. Have been reading this blog since the beginning and wishing I could be there to put a stitch in or two. Love being at the Plantation with all it’s wonderful history. Will continue to ready until the jacket is finished. Betsy
January 18th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
I realize that the site is in a state of transition and that it will be newer and greater than ever. However, let me register the hope that there will still be a subject category that deals specifically with the lace part of the project, so those of us who are caught up in this element can refer our friends easily to all the lace blogs.
I sent in my sample yesterday!
Devon
January 18th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
I’d like to second Devon’s wish for a return of the subject catagories, if such is possible. I really miss being able to click on the “Lace” catagory to reference some information — this way I have to scroll backwards through months of blog entries! Other than that, very nice. I’m happy the comments are up again.
January 19th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
The pictures are wonderful now!…Clickable makes ALL the difference…I understand completely about learning the new format..i`m resisting downloading Firefox..I hate learning new programs, so I will just be patient…thanks for all the efforts to make this blog the wonderful experience it has been…it`s my favorite morning read!
January 19th, 2008 at 11:03 pm
MJ, go ahead and download Firefox. It is as easy to use as IE, as I speak from experience. Having our own website has forced us to research a few things, and it seems to be a recurring theme that IE has defects that nag bloggers and web developers because IE doesn’t adhere to certain world wide web standards. Or, if you must use IE, upgrade to v7. That seems to present this blog okay.
Tricia, as we just spoke on the phone, I love the story on all the gory details it takes to reproduce the GST, and funny how you were able to reproduce not just the materials and techniques, but the ‘mistakes’ as well. As I mentioned, there is a debate in the automotive restoration hobby on whether a perfect restoration reproduces mistakes or eliminates them. Which is ‘perfect?’