To those of you who follow this blog: Thanks for your patience as I rewire it following a recent and important transition. While I’ve experienced some setbacks, I’m nevertheless making progress and want to let you know where things presently stand.
The current status will be of greater interest to musicians than weather weenies. In a nutshell, my music posts dating back to November 19, 2009, are now all properly linked to the correct images. When you click on an active link for a particular exercise or solo transcription, now the enlarged image that appears will be what you’d expect to see rather than a photograph of a tornado or a wild orchid!
I know you’re not seeing the image thumbnails! But you can still click them and view the full-size images.
Something appears to be screwed up with my image plug-in, NexGen. The past couple of NexGen updates, rather than improve the plug-in, have degraded its functionality, and the last one evidently stripped the image thumbnails from my pages, leaving white placeholders in their place.
Fortunately, the placeholders are active. So if you click on them, you’ll get a full-size image. Obviously, that’s not a satisfactory long-term situation–the thumbnails need to be restored–but one thing at a time. Right now I want to focus on the things that I can easily fix on my end; then I’ll tackle the NexGen issue. My hope is that meanwhile NexGen will release an update that fixes the problem.
My plan: first fix all the music posts, then the weather.
I’m taking this approach for three reasons. First, the music posts get more traffic through the entire history of the the posts. The exercises, transcriptions, and articles deal with information that doesn’t get dated, and since there seems to be a strong, ongoing interest in those posts, I want to get them restored as quickly as possible.
Second, the music posts aren’t as image-intensive as my storm chasing posts, so they’re easier to fix, and I can have them back in shape relatively quickly. I’m already MORE THAN HALFWAY FINISHED with them.
Finally, this is the off-season weatherwise, and while I know that the weather never takes a break–as I write, an intense winter storm is shaping up for much of the CONUS for tomorrow and Wednesday–nevertheless, we’ve got a ways to go before the spring storm season kicks in. This isn’t to say that I’m not anxious to get the storm chasing stuff–not to mention the other aspects of this site such as my photos page and CopyFox page–hooked up with the correct images. It’s just that I’ve got to tackle this job in an orderly fashion.
Bear with me, because I’m hammering away on this thing as best I can. Getting this blog fully restored and coasting along with all sails catching the wind is a huge priority for me. So stay tuned. My next update will probably come soon, once all the music posts are fixed.
