Hiking Website - Overhaul!
The Amateur-Hikers.com website is getting a major overhaul. There are four purposes for this overhaul.1. Make the site more attractive.
2. Add some cool new features, like an interactive map you can use to help search for a mountain.
3. Make it easier for people to submit hike reports and other information.
4. Make it much easier for me to maintain the site.
In the new version of the site, people can submit detailed hike reports, or they can submit short descriptive paragraphs describing the mountain (Brian just submitted one of those). This will make it easier for people to contribute to the site, and will therefore help the site grow.
Would you like to take a look at the new version of the site, and see it go through the development process? You can find it by typing the name of my software site (http://www.virtu-software.com), followed by "/amateur-hikers/" in your web browser.
If you can't find it, or if you don't remember your login information, send me an email, and I'll send you the link, along with your username and password.
You can't submit hike reports yet (and the old hike reports haven't been added to the new site), but you can try submitting a mountain description. In fact, feel free to submit as many descriptions as you want!
On another subject, I've got a couple pending project quotes for some web design work - both good sized projects. I'm hoping one or the other of those will come through soon, because I'll have time this month to work on them!
Posted On Mar 4, 2007 at 6:15 AM
On Mar 19, 2007 Laura wrote: In response to your comment on the Prestige, I do agree that that was a little "jolting," but I definitely remember hearing someone in the previews say "it's not magic - it's real." That's why I figured that at some point it would probably employ some "real" magic, which was basically what that was...I mean, I guess it was portrayed more as science, but I thought it was easier to see it as magic.
Oh, and thanks for the myspace bulletin - I really should repost that, because I get annoyed when people post outrageously untrue things as well.
Doug Replied: You're welcome. And just so anyone else knows what the bulletin I posted was...
Were there REALLY hyperdermic needles in the McD's playroom?
This is just a friendly request to all my friends.
Whenever you get an email or a bulletin that says "Please Repost this" and gives some farfetched (or not so farfetched story), please remember that there are sites like snopes.com and truthorfiction.com where you can check to see if the story is true.
98% of the time, they're not.
Look at it this way. It takes you a minute to check to find out if a story is true or not. If you DON'T check, and send it to all 500 of your friends, it takes 500 minutes for all of them to check and see if it's true. Wow...that's an entire workday wasted!
For example, if someone sends you the one about infected needles in the ballpit at mcdonalds, you can go to snopes.com and type "mcdonalds needles" in the search box, and you find this:
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/parental/archer.asp
Now see? Ain't that cool?
Doug
ps - please repost this in the next 12 seconds or your thumbnail on your left hand will turn purple, and your nostril hairs will grow fourteen inches overnight.
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