Well if you haven’t noticed YeppoonInfo.com now has a brand new design & website, which I think is much better than the old one. The new design has a much more “traditional” look and feel, compared to the very ordinary blog style design that the previous website had. Before I go any further, please have a look at the screenshot below and visit the site!
This new site includes a totally different structure, for example along the top just above the random header image display (which showcases panoramas around the Yeppoon region), there is a places menu listing all the localities in this area. Above that menu are the resource links, which currently include the Yeppoon Events, Yeppoon Photo Panoramas and Yeppoon Accommodation pages. Later on as soon as I can code it, I hope to add a Yeppoon News page which people can subscribe to via email or RSS.
If you have any other suggestions of what to add or what I can change, please don’t hesitate to contact me!
Well today I was very excited to read that Google has launched its street view service, which allows people to view streets as if they’re walking or driving up them, has been launched in Australia. This includes Yeppoon, so I spent some time looking around at all the street view locations. It seems that most of Australia’s medium to large towns and cities are covered, along with major highways. If you go to this address, you can see which parts of Australia are covered.
To see a street view, just go to Google Maps Australia and click the street view tab in the top right corner. If there is street view available in that area the streets will appear outlined in blue. To look at the street using street view, just double click the blue outline.
I’m not sure whether any of you have noticed yet, but I have a new website and blog up at jylanwynne.com. Basically I’ve decided to change Jylanization into a blog entirely about Yeppoon and my area, and use jylanwynne.com as a personal blog with web design posts and things like that (phew, over and done with!). That means I’ll be able to tweak each website until they’ve reached their full potential, which I can’t do at the moment.
I have some cool things planned for each blog, so make sure you come by often!
Now, about subscribers and what you can do. I’ve made a list below showing your options:
- If you want to keep subscribing to both blogs: Do nothing! I’ve already used Yahoo Pipes to merge the two feeds of Jylanization and Jylan Wynne together, so that means everyone subscribed to both blogs (as well as email subscribers) will stay subscribed.
- If you want to only subscribe to Jylan Wynne: If you came here just to read about web design stuff, etc, then just unsubscribe from whatever you’re currently getting my posts from, and resubscribe to feeds.feedburner.com/JylanWynne/. Keep in mind however, you won’t get any pretty pictures of Yeppoon to look at :-).
- If you want to only subscribe to Jylanization (or Yeppoon Blogging): Just unsubscribe from the feed you’re currently getting my posts from and resubscribe to feeds.feedburner.com/YeppoonBlogging/. Remember though, I might suddenly move to Borneo and you wouldn’t know!
I hope I’ve covered everything here. I might do a post on how I did the design and everything for jylanwynne.com, but in the meantime go and check it out, then please tell me what you think! I will start right now on changing the branding for Jylanization, see you ;-).
I just released my first public Wordpress theme a few hours ago, and I’ve called it Cascading Colours.
For more info, just go to the theme page. You can also preview it by using the links on that page. Please tell me what you think!
I’m quite excited and pleased at the moment because I just downloaded the Wordpress Automatic Upgrade plugin, which in a nutshell, does the following things:
- Creates backups of the Wordpress database and the Wordpress source files
- Downloads the latest copy of Wordpress onto the server that Wordpress is installed on
- Deactivates all plugins, remembering which ones you’ve been using
- Overwrites all the old Wordpress files with the new files
- Activates all your old plugins again
So, in short, if you are running a Wordpress blog I recommend that you download the Wordpress Automatic Upgrade plugin immediately. The plugin works on all Wordpress installations from version 1.5 upwards.
