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May. 18th, 2014 10:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tvordljURgh. LJ posting page looks different. I guess it's ok but at least my Friends page is still in the format I am used to. Yes, things get updated and not everyone likes it. I don't mind the new "flat" look that a lot of websites have now, actually. And i actually have redesigned my own personal website using the same kind of look. I'm not 100% happy with the main landing page, though, so I may change that again but it's fresher and more up to date than the last look. Graham thinks this new minimalist style has no character but he's looking at it from a graphic designer's point of view. I've seen nice sites with good graphics and photos but some of the best ones also include javascript and other more complicated add ons. I might look for a javascript or css slideshow for my main page to feature some recent travel photos.
I have two spaces to store files, and i reorganized them both. I have two email addresses from my isp provider and there's webspace that i get with each. It was a big job to redo every page i had using the new style sheets and move things around from one space to another and organize it. I did leave some of the travelogues as they were since i liked the set up but for the most part all of them have changed to a new template. Some of the main pages are really just lists of links so there's not a lot you can do with those (travelogues, photo albums or various travel site links). They're really there just to be an index. At least I can find a particular travelogue or site easily. That's one of the reasons i built a site in the first place, to put my travelogues up with a few photos and have links to online photo albums and put up some Coronation Street bits and bobs. Now i'm also putting travelogues on a Wordpress blog but i put more detail into the "homesite" ones.
Anyway, I'm pleased with it though I can imagine i will change it a bit at some point.
Mom's back from her mini cruise to Bermuda. She loved it but did say the queues on the ship were too many and too long and her legs and back really bothered her at times because of it. I guess i hadn't thought of it but when you consider a couple thousand passengers, there's bound to be long lineups for elevators, buffet lines, gangplank to get on and off and one morning a really long one for customs clearance. Aside from that, though, she and her friends really liked it though because of the afore mentioned, she doesn't know if she'd go on a cruise again. I think i'd find it annoying, too. The only kinds of cruises that ever really appealed to me were something like an Alaskan cruise but with that, I suppose you'd spend even more time on the ship than on shore excursions which would be fewer than the Carribean and Med cruises where you're off the ship almost every day.
I'd rather spend 2 or 3 days in one place and then take a boat or ferry to the next place, stay a few days and go on. I have to say, though, from people that i know that have been on them, the increasingly popular river cruises might be really nice. Small boats, too, so you aren't in the middle of a crowd of strangers. We were thinking of doing one if we could have booked a 2 for 1 deal but when we tried, the travel agent called the company and said that the deals were sold out for the dates we needed. Maybe we'll try that again sometime, though.
Graham is doing ok. He keeps himself distracted he says, so he doesn't dwell on things too much and he knows that his dad is in a better place. The last few years his health and mobility were restricted and he wasn't able to live the kind of life he'd been used to. It's difficult seeing our parents get older and less vital and we can only hope they can stay healthy and have as good a quality of life as long as possible.
I have two spaces to store files, and i reorganized them both. I have two email addresses from my isp provider and there's webspace that i get with each. It was a big job to redo every page i had using the new style sheets and move things around from one space to another and organize it. I did leave some of the travelogues as they were since i liked the set up but for the most part all of them have changed to a new template. Some of the main pages are really just lists of links so there's not a lot you can do with those (travelogues, photo albums or various travel site links). They're really there just to be an index. At least I can find a particular travelogue or site easily. That's one of the reasons i built a site in the first place, to put my travelogues up with a few photos and have links to online photo albums and put up some Coronation Street bits and bobs. Now i'm also putting travelogues on a Wordpress blog but i put more detail into the "homesite" ones.
Anyway, I'm pleased with it though I can imagine i will change it a bit at some point.
Mom's back from her mini cruise to Bermuda. She loved it but did say the queues on the ship were too many and too long and her legs and back really bothered her at times because of it. I guess i hadn't thought of it but when you consider a couple thousand passengers, there's bound to be long lineups for elevators, buffet lines, gangplank to get on and off and one morning a really long one for customs clearance. Aside from that, though, she and her friends really liked it though because of the afore mentioned, she doesn't know if she'd go on a cruise again. I think i'd find it annoying, too. The only kinds of cruises that ever really appealed to me were something like an Alaskan cruise but with that, I suppose you'd spend even more time on the ship than on shore excursions which would be fewer than the Carribean and Med cruises where you're off the ship almost every day.
I'd rather spend 2 or 3 days in one place and then take a boat or ferry to the next place, stay a few days and go on. I have to say, though, from people that i know that have been on them, the increasingly popular river cruises might be really nice. Small boats, too, so you aren't in the middle of a crowd of strangers. We were thinking of doing one if we could have booked a 2 for 1 deal but when we tried, the travel agent called the company and said that the deals were sold out for the dates we needed. Maybe we'll try that again sometime, though.
Graham is doing ok. He keeps himself distracted he says, so he doesn't dwell on things too much and he knows that his dad is in a better place. The last few years his health and mobility were restricted and he wasn't able to live the kind of life he'd been used to. It's difficult seeing our parents get older and less vital and we can only hope they can stay healthy and have as good a quality of life as long as possible.
