Saturday, December 29, 2012

Today's updates

Some great things have happened this weekend! First off, I found a software program that lets me easily watermark photos by the hundreds! That saves me a lot of time, because I had been watermarking each photograph one at a time. Because I found this, I was able to get a lot of photos uploaded into slideshows! Here's one of some lovely old photographs:




I also figured out how to put a Google search bar on the website. That will be showing up soon, after Miguel and I decide on the location for each page. It will make finding things on the website a lot easier. With 40+ pages it is easy to get lost.

I have added some "jump menus" to a few pages, and I'm sure most of them will wind up with jump menus eventually. You can see an example of this on the Poco de Todo page. It's the little drop-down menu in the upper right corner. These menus are designed to help you easily navigate between various articles/information that are part of that specific window. For example, the Poco de Todo window/page has things to offer such as an Asherton Letter, or the June 2012 Reunion Announcement. These can be found in the drop-down menu, and they all link to each other as well.

Please, if you try out the menu and it's not working, let me know here ASAP.

I got to see the website on my mom's laptop and I found that most of the scroll areas (such as on the Music page) are still longer than a typical browser window! That makes it a little weird. So, I am making those a little shorter. I have also added a border to a few (and will likely do that for all of them) so they are better recognized as scrolling windows. I would hate for anyone to miss out on this fascinating information simply because they didn't know they could scroll!

I've gotten several videos uploaded to YouTube. These will eventually make their way to the website for all to enjoy! Here's one you can enjoy right now. (It will eventually be posted to the Music page.)





I hope you're all enjoying watching the development of the website. It is evolving quite nicely and I am really enjoying myself. Please feel free to give tips or suggestions if you have them! 

Saturday, December 22, 2012

Hello again!

Hello readers!

I'm getting a lot done today! Soon we will have a "site map," which will have a link at the bottom of every page. This site map will assist our consumers in going directly to any page in the website without having to search around to figure out where that page was again. Right now we have 40 pages on the site, so there is a lot of opportunity to get lost! I'm diligently working on that map and it is actually pretty fun. You'll be able to see it here when it's done.

Please comment here or using the contact page on the website. I'd love to get some feedback!

:-)

Monday, December 17, 2012

Una familia especial

Hello again! I've gotten up a few important pages. One is about a family that Miguel ran into at a museum in Washington County. You can see the page here. It's got some great pictures as well as a video.

Another great addition is the Community Voice in Education page, which you can see here.

I am experimenting with a drop-down menu for additional entries, which you can see near the top of the Education page. I just realized I have one of the entries coded wrong, so I will get right on fixing that. If this format is something we like, I will probably have a similar one on each page so that all the sub-entries can be accessed easily.

This project is big, and fun! I am really enjoying myself. And thanks to Google Translate, I am able to understand some of what I am posting. :-)

Sunday, December 2, 2012

It's coming along nicely!

Be sure to check out the Bustamante family pages! I added an option to jump to some information about Albert Bustamante. :-)

There are two more slideshows added to the website, and they can be viewed on the Galeria de Fotos page.

Enjoy!