3 months and counting
April 15th, 2007 | 
Author: The website hits 3 months…
Yeah, I know, the site is just a baby, but it’s my little baby and I need to mark these little milestones. It’s been a long 3 months that have just flown by.
I started the New Year with an idea to build a page and display some photos. I’m pretty surprised at how it’s turned out even after just these few short months. It’s been a lot easier and a lot harder than I thought it would be. I’ve made plenty of mistakes so far and even suffered some unexpected hardware glitches. But, it has also been a lot more fun than I thought and I’m enjoying putting it all together a lot more than I expected. I like going through the pictures to find nice to display. I like looking through other sites to find ideas and answers. And I’ve been exposed to some impressive tools I probably never would have come across if I hadn’t started this experiment; Expression Web, Google Sitemapper, Wordpress, PHP, MySql, just to name a few.
Even though I’ve just started, a vast amount of work has been completed; the picture galleries, the sitemaps, the optimization, keywords, grammatical mistakes, taking photos, keeping the server running, DNS errors, SMTP problems, drive cloning, and learning HTML, just to name a few more.
All of that in just 3 months. Kind of scares me to think what the next 3 months will bring. Or for that matter, where will I be at the end of the year with this project?
And there is so much more still to come. Of course more photos, but lots of changes to the site like Resource Guides, Software Reviews, links to other photography sites and magazines, more lens reviews, a full catalog of my photos for sale, fully indexed site searches, and lots of other ideas. I will just keep adding and subtracting as ideas come to me.
And so many new places to go this year – lighthouses, beaches, mountains, back to the deserts of Arizona, macro photography galore at the botanical gardens. When you really start taking photos, there are so many more photos you want to take. It’s a good thing!
Of course let us not forget, so many new lenses to lust after – wide angles and hefty 500mm tele zooms, plus maybe another 70mm and 135mm IS just for good measure!
Crashes and glitches, problems and solutions. It’s been easy, fun and nerve racking!
But I’m having a ball!
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