New freebies and website re-work

After procrastinating forever about updating my poor, neglected
website, I finally got around to doing a bunch of re-programming over
the weekend when my 'net access was down and it was too hot to do
anything outside.

Mostly I've improved navigation around the site. I hope to work on
getting some better photos of the designs for the next round of changes.

I've added two new-ish freebie bookmarks to the site that I originally
did for Mary Monica to hand out at her book signings. I'll try to
change the freebies more often than every five years from now on. lol

I've got a backlog of never-published small designs that I can cycle
onto the site, but I need to do the charts and instructions in a
web-friendly format first. And I'll also try to put up some of my
small designs that were in magazines for folks who missed 'em the
first go-round.

If you see anything wonky or something that doesn't seem to display
properly, please let me know.

URL - http://nyssa.cnc.net

Nyssa, who make take a while, but eventually does manage to get things done
At River's End

Nyssa, you have 137 errors and 7 warnings on your front page. To see
what these are, go to: http://validator.w3.org/ and input your URL.

I'm currently getting my bachelor's in web design/development.
Standards are changing and if you don't keep up, browsers won't be able
to view your pages, plus your rankings will be lower in search engines.

Just trying to help. The results will tell you how to fix the errors.

Dianne

On 6/15/2011 10:57 AM, Nyssa wrote:
After procrastinating forever about updating my poor, neglected
website, I finally got around to doing a bunch of re-programming over
the weekend when my 'net access was down and it was too hot to do
anything outside.

Mostly I've improved navigation around the site. I hope to work on
getting some better photos of the designs for the next round of changes.

I've added two new-ish freebie bookmarks to the site that I originally
did for Mary Monica to hand out at her book signings. I'll try to
change the freebies more often than every five years from now on. lol

I've got a backlog of never-published small designs that I can cycle
onto the site, but I need to do the charts and instructions in a
web-friendly format first. And I'll also try to put up some of my
small designs that were in magazines for folks who missed 'em the
first go-round.

If you see anything wonky or something that doesn't seem to display
properly, please let me know.

URL - http://nyssa.cnc.net

Nyssa, who make take a while, but eventually does manage to get things done
At River's End

Dianne Lewandowski wrote:

Nyssa, you have 137 errors and 7 warnings on your front page. To see
what these are, go to: http://validator.w3.org/ and input your URL.

I'm currently getting my bachelor's in web design/development.
Standards are changing and if you don't keep up, browsers won't be able
to view your pages, plus your rankings will be lower in search engines.

Just trying to help. The results will tell you how to fix the errors.

Dianne

On 6/15/2011 10:57 AM, Nyssa wrote:
After procrastinating forever about updating my poor, neglected
website, I finally got around to doing a bunch of re-programming over
the weekend when my 'net access was down and it was too hot to do
anything outside.

Mostly I've improved navigation around the site. I hope to work on
getting some better photos of the designs for the next round of changes.

I've added two new-ish freebie bookmarks to the site that I originally
did for Mary Monica to hand out at her book signings. I'll try to
change the freebies more often than every five years from now on. lol

I've got a backlog of never-published small designs that I can cycle
onto the site, but I need to do the charts and instructions in a
web-friendly format first. And I'll also try to put up some of my
small designs that were in magazines for folks who missed 'em the
first go-round.

If you see anything wonky or something that doesn't seem to display
properly, please let me know.

URL - http://nyssa.cnc.net

Nyssa, who make take a while, but eventually does manage to get things
done At River's End



Dianne,

The umpteen warnings and errors were generated assuming an XHTML document.
When I switched to HTML5, there were a LOT fewer warnings and errors...4
errors, 5 warnings, mostly based on an incorrect DOCTYPE declaration.

I'll chase these down and fix 'em. Thanks for the pointer to the
validation site. (I know my site works with several of the older browsers
and a few funky ones.)

I've got a nice, big stack of O'Reilly reference books to keep me fairly
honest with my HTML/CSS programming, but a few things always manage to slip
through the cracks. Debugging is never fun regardless of the programming
language being used.

Nyssa, who would rather be programming in FORTRAN
At River's End

On Jun 15, 8:57*am, Nyssa wrote:
After procrastinating forever about updating my poor, neglected
website, I finally got around to doing a bunch of re-programming over
the weekend when my 'net access was down and it was too hot to do
anything outside.

Mostly I've improved navigation around the site. I hope to work on
getting some better photos of the designs for the next round of changes.

I've added two new-ish freebie bookmarks to the site that I originally
did for Mary Monica to hand out at her book signings. I'll try to
change the freebies more often than every five years from now on. lol

I've got a backlog of never-published small designs that I can cycle
onto the site, but I need to do the charts and instructions in a
web-friendly format first. And I'll also try to put up some of my
small designs that were in magazines for folks who missed 'em the
first go-round.

If you see anything wonky or something that doesn't seem to display
properly, please let me know.

URL -http://nyssa.cnc.net

Nyssa, who make take a while, but eventually does manage to get things done
At River's End

I saw everything beautifully. I didn't take the time to browse the
entire site because I don't like to tie up the phone line during
"working" hours - in case someone wants to call about an interview -
but it worked fine with my dial-up internet connection. :-)
Liz from Humbug

Liz from Humbug wrote:

On Jun 15, 8:57 am, Nyssa wrote:
After procrastinating forever about updating my poor, neglected
website, I finally got around to doing a bunch of re-programming over
the weekend when my 'net access was down and it was too hot to do
anything outside.

Mostly I've improved navigation around the site. I hope to work on
getting some better photos of the designs for the next round of changes.

I've added two new-ish freebie bookmarks to the site that I originally
did for Mary Monica to hand out at her book signings. I'll try to
change the freebies more often than every five years from now on. lol

I've got a backlog of never-published small designs that I can cycle
onto the site, but I need to do the charts and instructions in a
web-friendly format first. And I'll also try to put up some of my
small designs that were in magazines for folks who missed 'em the
first go-round.

If you see anything wonky or something that doesn't seem to display
properly, please let me know.

URL -http://nyssa.cnc.net

Nyssa, who make take a while, but eventually does manage to get things
done At River's End

I saw everything beautifully. I didn't take the time to browse the
entire site because I don't like to tie up the phone line during
"working" hours - in case someone wants to call about an interview -
but it worked fine with my dial-up internet connection. :-)
Liz from Humbug


Thanks for the feedback, Liz. I'm on dialup too, so I feel your pain.

As long as browsers are built to be backwardly compatible, most people
shouldn't have any problems with my site. I try to keep things fairly
simple with dialup and older computers and browsers in mind.

If anyone sees any glaring errors or has suggestions for for which
of my older designs or freebies you'd like to see again, please let me
know. This site is a work in progress, which at least is an improvement
over ignoring it for more than five years. lol

Nyssa, who *used* to be a programmer for a living but now just dabbles
in it
At River's End
http://nyssa.cnc.net

Funny - I was wondering about you just the other day. I think I have all
the sachet bags charts waiting for a good excuse to stitch them.

Cheryl

On 6/15/11 11:57 AM, Nyssa wrote:
After procrastinating forever about updating my poor, neglected
website, I finally got around to doing a bunch of re-programming over
the weekend when my 'net access was down and it was too hot to do
anything outside.

Mostly I've improved navigation around the site. I hope to work on
getting some better photos of the designs for the next round of changes.

I've added two new-ish freebie bookmarks to the site that I originally
did for Mary Monica to hand out at her book signings. I'll try to
change the freebies more often than every five years from now on. lol

I've got a backlog of never-published small designs that I can cycle
onto the site, but I need to do the charts and instructions in a
web-friendly format first. And I'll also try to put up some of my
small designs that were in magazines for folks who missed 'em the
first go-round.

If you see anything wonky or something that doesn't seem to display
properly, please let me know.

URL - http://nyssa.cnc.net

Nyssa, who make take a while, but eventually does manage to get things done
At River's End

Cheryl Isaak wrote:

Funny - I was wondering about you just the other day. I think I have all
the sachet bags charts waiting for a good excuse to stitch them.

Cheryl

On 6/15/11 11:57 AM, Nyssa wrote:
After procrastinating forever about updating my poor, neglected
website, I finally got around to doing a bunch of re-programming over
the weekend when my 'net access was down and it was too hot to do
anything outside.

Mostly I've improved navigation around the site. I hope to work on
getting some better photos of the designs for the next round of changes.

I've added two new-ish freebie bookmarks to the site that I originally
did for Mary Monica to hand out at her book signings. I'll try to
change the freebies more often than every five years from now on. lol

I've got a backlog of never-published small designs that I can cycle
onto the site, but I need to do the charts and instructions in a
web-friendly format first. And I'll also try to put up some of my
small designs that were in magazines for folks who missed 'em the
first go-round.

If you see anything wonky or something that doesn't seem to display
properly, please let me know.

URL - http://nyssa.cnc.net

Nyssa, who make take a while, but eventually does manage to get things
done At River's End

I'll take that as a sign that everyone who wants 'em have the whole
Goodie Bag series, so I'll be posting the next bookmark freebie up
on my website in a few days.

Thanks for the feedback, Cheryl.

Nyssa, who feels like she's back in the programming business again
At River's End

Nyssa,

I think of you every two or three months when pull out the UFO's and all
I have to finish is Jim's hang-a-long. All I have do are the Smyrna
crosses with the copper metallic.

Please tell me why I procrastinate??? Maybe next year we will go to
Dayton again.

I shall post on rctnp when i have the hang-along, finished and completed
by my wonderful LNS owner/framer

I have never forgotten you.

Gillian
KC5TEN

On 6/15/2011 11:57 AM, Nyssa wrote:
After procrastinating forever about updating my poor, neglected
website, I finally got around to doing a bunch of re-programming over
the weekend when my 'net access was down and it was too hot to do
anything outside.

Mostly I've improved navigation around the site. I hope to work on
getting some better photos of the designs for the next round of changes.

I've added two new-ish freebie bookmarks to the site that I originally
did for Mary Monica to hand out at her book signings. I'll try to
change the freebies more often than every five years from now on. lol

I've got a backlog of never-published small designs that I can cycle
onto the site, but I need to do the charts and instructions in a
web-friendly format first. And I'll also try to put up some of my
small designs that were in magazines for folks who missed 'em the
first go-round.

If you see anything wonky or something that doesn't seem to display
properly, please let me know.

URL - http://nyssa.cnc.net

Nyssa, who make take a while, but eventually does manage to get things done
At River's End

Gillian Murray wrote:

Nyssa,

I think of you every two or three months when pull out the UFO's and all
I have to finish is Jim's hang-a-long. All I have do are the Smyrna
crosses with the copper metallic.

Please tell me why I procrastinate??? Maybe next year we will go to
Dayton again.

I shall post on rctnp when i have the hang-along, finished and completed
by my wonderful LNS owner/framer

I have never forgotten you.

Gillian
KC5TEN

On 6/15/2011 11:57 AM, Nyssa wrote:
After procrastinating forever about updating my poor, neglected
website, I finally got around to doing a bunch of re-programming over
the weekend when my 'net access was down and it was too hot to do
anything outside.

Mostly I've improved navigation around the site. I hope to work on
getting some better photos of the designs for the next round of changes.

I've added two new-ish freebie bookmarks to the site that I originally
did for Mary Monica to hand out at her book signings. I'll try to
change the freebies more often than every five years from now on. lol

I've got a backlog of never-published small designs that I can cycle
onto the site, but I need to do the charts and instructions in a
web-friendly format first. And I'll also try to put up some of my
small designs that were in magazines for folks who missed 'em the
first go-round.

If you see anything wonky or something that doesn't seem to display
properly, please let me know.

URL - http://nyssa.cnc.net

Nyssa, who make take a while, but eventually does manage to get things
done At River's End



Thank you, Gill. I think of you often too when I look at the
Calling CQ model.

I'm *shocked* that the callsign update is still a UFO! I would have
thought you'd have a cheerleader in the house to keep urging you to
finish it for him.

Maybe we should consider putting a photo of the finished project up
on my website on the design page to show folks our clever idea for
when hams upgrade their callsigns!

I diddled some more with the website yesterday and got the updates
uploaded which includes another bookmark freebie. It'll be a work in
progress for the near future.

Plus I discovered another gotcha yesterday when I went to do a restore
of my design files from a backup...most of them were missing!

I can only guess that my dying hard drive ate the rest. Unfortunately
it looks as though just about all of my newer stuff were victims to
the bit-eating monster. I have hardcopy charts of my models, but it
will be a PITA to have to recreate each of the design charts
stitch-by-stitch in the charting program. sigh So that means a delay
in getting them up on the site as new freebies or on-line projects.

Always sumthin!

Nyssa - K4HZY
At River's End