current activity (August 2010)
- contract work on various sites
- continuing to perfect John Freeman's Website Framework.
- writing more, lots of stuff on my blog - techie pages, health drama, road trips, van love
- learning way more about Wordpress customization, creative Google Maps usage
- learning way more about JQuery and Ajax – see this site re-done with Ajax.
It was a pretty simple learning exercise. All these panels are simple html files, which I could load with .load() ... except the skills panel, which is done in PHP to do the even/odd shading automatically if I insert a new row. That made me learn the rudiments of .get() and .post(). I got a sweet little fade going on the right panel, but I haven't yet got it to work with the PHP-generated skills panel, so ... learning continues ...
- making Google Adsense earn money for me
- understanding Google Analytics
- My on-going long-term project is a system so I can better share my huge library of digital pictures and the stories that go with them, and integrate them with Google Maps, into one big sticky blob of interconnected information. Earlier iterations of this are my Fall 2002 Road Trip pages (database driven but kinda klunky) and my various photo galleries -- completely file-driven, which makes them a lot more lightweight to set up and administer, no database.
- keeping my blog current
- staying healthy
- selling my condo
- understanding my new camper van
- looking forward to the next roadtrip(s) in same