Hey hey, it’s Boxing Day and I have kept to my word and have yet to step foot in a shop. It probably helps that most shops are closed the past day or two, but Boxing Day is Sale Day in Canada, much the same way Black Friday works in the USA: consumer chaos. I don’t think I’ve bought anything on Boxing Day, ever, and I plan to keep it that way.
In other news, I’ve been busy creating things and wrangling code. As always, it’s a work in progress but I’ve set up another photography site using a photo application for the web called Pixelpost. One reason why I wanted to try this is because it’s specifically for showing photos — the code is light, and the templates are created with photos in mind rather than text. Anyhow, take a look:
ImageNation : imagination with images
I didn’t come up with the name “ImageNation” until after I created the first incarnation of the gallery page. I didn’t know what to call it, and I didn’t want to use my name since it’s already the domain. Somehow I came up with this, not with the idea of registering it or anything, but just to give it a name. I like the word imagination and I wanted to base it on image. Tonight I put the name in Google to see what was out there and I see there are lots of sites using the name already, so it’s a good thing I didn’t bother to see if the domain was free. I kept the folder name as “gallery” with the idea of changing the site name if I can up with a better moniker. Kind of like calling a baby-in-utero Junior until it’s born…
I’m still populating the photo gallery, but at least it’s up and running. I’ve also made changes to my other sites, but not major ones just yet.
I’ve also created a home page for gailedwinfielding.com that acts as a portal/listing for the other sites I have: http://gailedwinfielding.com
I used iWeb to build that page, which was my second time to use it, the first time was to build the Santa Comes To Bay Street pages. iWeb comes bundled with iLife which came with my iMac, and my first impression was that it was too basic to be more useful than the other software I’m using for building webpages. I thought I would only use it for the occasional event, but after building three pages I must admit that being able to drag-and-drop and push page elements around rather than mess with CSS files is very useful, indeed. After all, I do that enough with my other sites, so this is a welcome break.
I’ve had a Very Geeky Christmas. Three days at home and I had to have something to show for it!
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