TWP - Spider’s Web
January 12th, 2009 S. T. McDole
With this photo I update the Animal gallery.
Dear customer,
Due to the increasing number of complaints about abusive free web hosting account usage, FreeHostia is forced to discontinue the support of outgoing connections to remote servers for all free web hosting accounts. This restriction on outgoing connections will become effective on December 16th, 2008.
If outgoing connections are vital for your website (for example, if you are using RSS feeds or any other information from remote servers) we would recommend you to consider upgrading to a paid account. You can do this using the Upgrade section of your Control Panel.
Thank you for your understanding.
Best Regards,
FreeHostia Team
Unless I am missing something that should be obvious, I do not believe this will effect this website for any of you.
The only thing that I suspect currently will be affected is my visitor counter as it sends information to another server. RSS feeds should be fine as I have all of this website entirely self-contained now that I have been off of Blogger for months.
There are a few posts I’ll keep my eye on as they are using my Flickr or youtube accounts for their photos.
Added an event section under galleries and photos from a triathlon I covered. A quick news snippet added to the home page for guests first arriving can know where to find recently added things. To anyone looking for the triathlon photos I hope you enjoy them.
Oh, and some photos of mine are now on display at coachlevi.com and clearfieldcycling.com. Check both places out.
I added the fine art gallery to the website. This leaves the concept, food, photojournalism and sports galleries to go. Odds are the next new gallery will be the food followed by photojournalism. Sports and concept will likely be last as there are some things left to mess with concerning those.
Two photos in the fine art should look familiar. Photos 1 and 7 of Landscapes/Scenes were moved to that gallery. Under the old system I didn’t know where else to put them for the time being. So either before or after adding the food gallery I will likely update Landscape/Scenes.
Well, officially began the process of upgrading the web page. I removed the contest gallery as it seemed redundant. Some of the galleries still need to be built up, but these are the ones planned. There is another hint to what is to come if you look carefully.
While I can’t give an ETA yet, I have been working on some technical updates for the main web page. Most of them minor such as updating the Google Analytics code to reflect the new domain name. Two big updates are also coming. One of which that is hopefully nearing completion is the inclusion of the news for my site actually being on my site now, McDole Photography News MK. II.
There are some kinks to work out before it goes live, but it works to get things done. I’ll begin copying the posts in this news bog over to it before that update.
More news to come on this.
Changes to the site made include redoing how the index page works. Instead of being a news page it has been updated to be a slide show of random photos. I’m looking into getting a bigger slide show.
The galleries were shrunk down to 460×450 pixels to be more friendly to a wider range of resolutions. The old one was 600×600 pixels, I believe.