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Only Took A Year - Inner Sanctum Up and Running

Palm TreeI knew ages ago that I wanted my site to be more than just a blog.  The only problem was, who to make it more than just a blog.  Solution is pages, hundreds, no thousands, of them if I so wish.

Pages, like blog posts, are easy once you get used to making them.  I spent a lot of time working and editing to get the pages right, but was never happy with them, nor had I found a way to link them into my blog.Bush

Well, I found that writing a page was very much like writing a blog, so once realised, the writing of a page became easy.  And, I just use the same tools and knowledge, which makes sense if you think about it.  Blog posts and pages are just the same after all, it is just how they stack together that is different.

So, comfortable with putting pages together, I began working on making them ‘visible’.  Yeah, like that’s been easy.  After Leaf 3much huffing and puffing and hair pulling, the only way I could get my Inner Sanctum ‘visible’ was to add the link down the right hand side of my site.  Not exactly what I had in mind, but it at least works.

So far, I’ve been working on a graphics library. Tree The idea came when several friends said they didn’t know which codes to use with some graphics.  Not easy to know such things, so I thought I would help out.

I have included sites I get my graphics from, the graphics I use (starting from the ones I’ve used after starting my library) and the codes needed.  The idea being that not only are the uploader codes given, but it can be better seen where those codes have come from – from within the full html code.

Leaf All the time, I am adding to the growing library, with many categories now covered (and more yet to come).  I’m also open to people sending me the page of a graphic and asking me to simplify the code for them, or just add it to my growing library.

There are more things that will be added to my Inner Sanctum, but they are taking more time than I thought.  I’m thinking a photo gallery of my world (not including family photos)Leaf 4 showing off my (pathetic) gardening skills and my cross stitch as well as whatever else I manage to snap.

Reviews of websites, shops and products are on the cards too, though that is still going to take some time as well.  It could be said, I’m having way too much fun with the graphics!

So, feel free to take a peek.  The link is in this post several times, and can also be found down the right hand side of my blog (only if you come through to my site) along with the rest of my fave links.

Bonsi

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Working On Pages

Running a website is a huge learning curve.  I’ve struggled to master the simplest of tasks, and now feel rather silly as they were so easy.  Having gotten comfortable with the basics, it is now time to work on the less than easy parts of my site.

You might notice that the number of categories I have for my blog are almost as numerous as the number of posts.  That is set to change very soon, with severl categories doing a disappearing act.

Having viewed many other websites, I have come to the conclusion that it is time to prune down and shape up.  The categories that are used less frequently are going to become pages instead.  These can go on forever if I want, in order to keep the posts in better order. (more…)

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