thespicelands.com

Well, we’ve finally migrated completely off our own software. We just can’t compete with the likes of Google and WordPress, so we’re joining the masses. WordPress gives us much more flexibility in formatting and adding new content, as well as managing the old content. What do you think?

The short: vote (on the side) for which photo gallery you like best.

(1) our old one

(2) new Google Picasa one

Now vote on the side.

Details:

I (Erin) am trying to come up with a way for us to more fluidly be able to manage our photos and share them. Google’s Picasa is a great photo management tool, and it can connect to Picasa Web Albums to publish photos to the web. I believe that we will be more likely to share photos more often if we had a one-click approach to uploading such as the one Google provides. Google’s Picasa and Picasa Web Albums also allow us to tag images, so you can search for people or keywords. Picasa Web Albums also generates an RSS feed of our gallery, so you can be notified when we upload new pictures.

Get the Flash Player to see this video. If you are seeing this from facebook or some other site, click on the link to watch the video on our site.

In this video:

* How to get a personalized Google homepage

* How to add our RSS feeds to automatically get our blog updates and updates from my camera. Use the following RSS feeds:

Our blog – http://thespicelands.com/blogdata/index.rss

Flickr – shutterspeedway’s flickr.com rss feed

Get the Flash Player to see this video. If you are seeing this from facebook or some other site, click on the link to watch the video on our site.

In case you didn’t notice, we switched to using “flash” as the format for our videos. This is the same as YouTube and Google Video. Hopefully our videos will now be viewable by everyone. Please post comments to let us know wether it worked or not.

You will need the flash player to view them. Almost everyone has it installed already do you probably don’t have to do anything. If you don’t have it, you should be able to just click on where the video would be and it will install it quickly and easily.

We’ve put spicelands.org on the back burner. We are now using thespicelands.com as our main domain name! All your old links and bookmarks and email addresses will still work, so don’t worry about that. I just felt weird about having a .org domain name when we obviously aren’t an organization!

I could try to come up with some elaborate reason why there is no video post this week but its better to be honest … I just plumb forgot!

If you enjoy our video blogs, comment on this one and say so to encourage me not to forget again The good news is that next week will be a double decker.

For a limited time, you can spy on us on our live webcam! You can even move the web cam to look around the room!

http://home.thespicelands.com/cgi-bin/webcam.cgi

Be nice to others and if you see that there are several people trying to control it, take turns.

I was looking for a website that the Class of 2000 grads were using to keep up with each other, and found that the only one anyone is using is Classmates.com, which costs money. I find that ridiculous, so I made my own! This is not only for 2000 grads, but anyone who graduated from WCHS since it first opened its doors! Just go to WayneCountyHighAlumni.com and add yourself. There are simple instructions on the first page, and I’m going to add a forum/bulletin board soon! Send this to everybody you know who went to WCHS. I’m really looking forward to getting back in touch with everyone!

My Profile

Check out our new layout! Erin finally spent some time putting together a well-made website, instead of that hack job we had going before! We moved the search box to the right, and added a jumpbox where you can quickly choose between categories. Or click “This Site’s Referrers” to see a list of websites that link to thespicelands.com and how many visitors we’ve gotten from them!