My site has arrived!...kinda

@wrabbit2000,

Hey, way to go mr.bunneh!! bunnydance

Lookin' good...clean,crisp & easy to read

 Liked the timeline of the Moon/Missions & outcome
Can't wait to see it when it's completed
  b0233

Very impressed with you guys that are able to do this kind of stuff [websites]

My husband often talks about a website for our stuff, but I wouldn't know where to start or how to go about setting it up

Okay folks.. No big secret that I'm making something I hope will compliment HH while helping the community here in terms of a website. It is considerably more, and much of it is the stuff only someone looking for the data could love (A lot is there for support and verification of stories within areas that keep coming up regularly in news, but not so interesting otherwise).

What I do want to ask though is how important having a stable and friendly place to upload images to post and use, is for folks?

I know it has been a major thing to me, as I am accustomed to using a wide variety of graphics in my posting. No place to upload them where they'd stay and could be sorted and such has been a major thing missed from TOS.

I'm just curious how it ranks in overall importance to others as I get into finishing a couple things?

Wow Wrabbit, this is wonderful. Under normal circumstances, as you mentioned, attempting to follow and compare data means clicking back and forth between tabs and scrolling through bookmark after bookmark. Even at under 50%, what I'm seeing here will eliminate most of my individually bookmarked pages. I love it !

To your question of a single place to store and easily access images would be incredible. As it is I use at least four separate sites and programs, some for hosting some for editing. When it comes down to the basics, access and perhaps the ability to resize would eliminate the need to transfer images back and forth.

You've done some great work here and I can see this becoming one of my main go to sites. Nicely Done !!

Penny

Thanks! By the way, I just made code updates on every page across the site. The spacing issues that were triggering scroll bars should now all be fixed and updating should work now. Every feed ought to be updating on a 15-30 minute basis. At some point and when I find another afternoon to dedicate to it, I'll get back to that and set page by page cache hold times as the feeds best fit. A lot of little things that may have caught someone's attention..or not..got fixed in the 3 sections currently up this afternoon.

So if someone was on it earlier. a lot changed for working properly now. :)

Thanks for the idea about Excel loading by the way. I believe I have the ability to integrate that, as excel isn't as hard as some other formats to find something to work with. (If only I could find an easy way to put an Access DB online). I can post spreadsheets with about 95% function into the content of the site now, and I havent started putting all that up yet. I just hadn't thought of adding that to the image/file vault area for members too.

I'll see what I can do with that.

That just sounds like a fair way of doing it, to me. :)

At the moment, I still have piles of pre-formatted material to insert and get online that built up over time. When I get through all that, then I do have a few hundred CSV files from www.data.gov (a GREAT site for a bit of everything in statistics if someone likes turning it into useful information). I need to get the raw data tables for the Obamacare costs this cycle too. I have last period's costs, but just haven't gone to looking for this one yet. I suppose it ought to be there.

Reply to Cuervo:

It is safe to say that it began as Joomla 3.x, but each day sees it being modified further away from that original CMS. That is what I love about Joomla though. It is so flexible. I've been using it on and off since 1.x and I'd say it still has a learning curve to it, but nothing like it used to be. It would also be fair to say I've spent a couple years now learning how it does NOT work for this or that though, so I guess its about time I landed on how it DOES. lol.... 

I am using the CMS for the base structure, navigation and some of the real powerful additions that can be integrated seamlessly, but content is being created by WYSIWYG Web Builder. A lot of programs claim to be point and click with no coding or knowledge necessary, and over the years I've tried a good dozen or more of them from Frontpage to Dreamweaver (which, to be fair, never even joked about being no-code..but claimed to have a visual interface ..kinda..sorta...). This is the ONLY one that actually does produce entire pages/sites, with a HUGE variety of things to drag/drop in on an MS Office style interface, and simply work. Period. The color theme tabs are out of WWB, but it has over 100 of what would otherwise be called pro- level 'scripts' that just drop-in like building a power point page. 

I've done a few things on the back end in caching, refreshing files away from user page requests and the like, to try and get those last little delays out of the CMS and loading feeds like I have, but the overall system is blending those two...which are designed quite thoroughly to work alone. The trick has been a way that gets the best of both worlds without conflict. I figured that out quite recently, really.

Wait until I get the split-slider before and after image gizmos up. (grin) I'm working on getting a few of those set up with automated file retrieval and loading from the gov servers which store all that imagery for major storms that come vs. normal satellite images the slider hides/reveals for land below. They're really nifty to see and use, anyway. (Maybe not so much to try and describe)

Excellent Site, WoW,,, Just WoW, The information there is Awsome! I was just stuck in the Moon and Apollo section for a long time, I really enjoyed the information there,,,,Thanks!