site info – An Unorthodox Halloween

Perseverate.

It’s taken more time than expected. (of course)

However, I’m happy to announce the Gallery is back in working order (though there are a few things that remain hopefully in the background until I can exterminate them). Without getting too awful technical, the old slideshows dated back to 2007, and little on the internet works quite the same as back then, so they didn’t work on mobile devices or play too nice with many browsers.

Unfortunately for me, this meant building new slide shows from scratch. This meant going through 12 years of pictures…

Good news is the new gallery is broken down, organized and mobile friendly (mostly, I think there’s an old video that’s still fussy).

As a side benefit, I stumbled on an old concept from 2007 I had abandoned because the early tests were less than amazing…

Not only has my own ability come leaps and bounds since 2007, so, too has available lighting.

This was just one piece of a larger concept, and though I don’t know how many years it might take for me to get the larger concept where I feel it’s complete, we’re going to be working towards her.

The Bone Mother.

It’s time, finally, for an Unorthodox take on a witch.

The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly…

What a long strange road…

It’s been a while coming, really, but between dealing with uncertainty, unemployment, and family deaths, I’ve been neglecting this website for a few years. It’s needed an update for a while, I’ve known.

The road has been one of those that cause you to evaluate what is really important to you. I’m not sure what it says about priorities, but Halloween come out ahead of a lot of things.

It was very nearly down to feed the family or make Halloween in 2014. It had come that far, when a lot of other things had fallen aside. Fortunately it didn’t quite come to that decision.

2015 was filled with it’s own roller coaster of putting things back in order, both financially with stable employment again, and as a family when my wife lost both her parents. Mother and Father were not just creatures, but my own way of working through this in my head.

So, with 2015 in the books, and a new appreciation for just how important this “hobby” is, I decided to finally put in the work here on the website….

And the first update broke the entire thing.

For 2 days I sat looking at a dying husk. I had thrown a static archived page up live to the public, but I was unable to edit anything, unable to go ‘live’. My patience for such things is fairly limited. I’d try things for a couple hours, and have to take a break. I contacted my host, and we’d fix one problem just to create several more. There was only one option left.

KILL IT.

And start from scratch.

I was able to save most the content, though some of the really old stuff probably doesn’t link correctly these days.

So, we are back from the dead. And better for it.

Now fully responsive, it should be readable on your mobile devices. At least the main page here…I’m going through and working the other pages one at a time. Once I figure out how to configure some of the other gizmos, we’ll have more features popping in as well. It’s taken me two weeks to get these bare bones back up out of the ground, and it’s time to start adding some flesh to them.

Well…that was….fun.

Well…some auto updates have broken just about everything here.

Bare with me while I sort all this out.

Home

It’s good to be home…

Nice to see so many of the neighbors have already started putting out their items. Especially after being in a town that I could have brought home the entire town’s decor home with me in my car… Little pumpkins, spider webs, inflated hearses, skeletons, and ghosts greeted me as I drove around to see who was in the spirit. And I know there are a few who have yet to begin.

The wind while I was away seems to have battered my own stash of corn hanging about the fringes of the yard. Ah well, it hadn’t been put up proper yet anyway.

I hope to get some items of my own started this coming weekend as well. I also may begin with ‘plan B’ on the whole corn situation…. But, I need a trip to the hardware store first, and that must wait until tomorrow.

The mostly background work on the website here has seen me flit and flutter through 3 separate themes, and a host of custom coding and settings adjustment for the lot of it.

You’ll immediately notice the new rotating images atop there. I’ll be having some fun with that now that I FINALLY got it working properly. That’s been a source of my consternation for the last 2 nights.

There are a few things that still need some tidying up. I know the comment form isn’t the best match with the rest of the forum, some of the other pages are still in need of major update, and I need some icon work all around. If you find anything else broken, however, please comment on it and I’ll add it to my to-do list. However, I need to get to work on some ‘real’ items now, not just the virtual kind. We’ll look more into this after the big night.

Ack, it’s ugly!!!

Yes.

Yes it is…

I’ve been seeking a new theme to spruce up the place for some time now, and with a week where I can’t work on anything “real” I figured it would be a good time to fix the old place up.

So, bear with me for a few while I find all the settings to get everything working. I’ll also be adding a few things to the projects and gallery pages. I’ve also been long negligent in fixing up my links that never made it from the OLD blog. Now that I have room for that without killing the main posts, I’ll get working on that as well.