La Tour Eiffel, Paris
I have finally gotten around to posting a gallery of photos from my trip to Paris in May. I still need to get some captions updated, but I took too many pictures to caption them all at once. I hope you enjoy them.
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View from the Adobe Bar patio, a good place to be while in Taos.
Some of the new photos from our latest trip to Taos have been posted to my MobileMe Gallery. Not many this time around, but some great shots of the Taos mountain.
A not so little visitor outside my home office window.
(Photos taken with my iPhone through a window. Not my best work.)
Top: Old Design. Bottom: New design.
For almost ten years, my church’s Web site has gone relatively unchanged. The design had become dated and so had the process to add and update the content on it. Shortly after joining the church about two and a half years ago, I volunteered to take on or assist in a makeover project. It took a while for the stars to align, but after starting work a few months ago, we finally launched the redesign this week.
For the first time ever, I used the very popular Joomla! CMS. I have long been a proponent of Drupal over Joomla!, mainly due to the fact that Drupal seems more friendly to those who want to add their own PHP modules quickly. Joomla!, however, has a very rabid user-base that has produced a large number of usable plug-ins. This allowed me to produce a professional, interactive site with only a few lines of my own handcrafted PHP. This was definitely nice. While I still definitely love Drupal, I can see myself using Joomla! again in the future.
Feel free to let me know what you think of the redesign.
After all of my excitement about getting this site back up and online, I have quickly been reminded why it took me so long to get it back in the first place. I have been hit with a bad one-two punch of tired and lazy. Work has been really busy of late. That along with a new house and adjusting to married life has meant that I haven’t really felt like doing much when I have extra time.
KevinDayton.com has paid the price for this. I’m hoping that as the Christmas season passes, my life will settle down a little bit and I can put new effort into this site. I make no promises, though. Anyway, I just wanted to put out an ‘I’m still alive and still plan to add items to this site’ message. Please continue to stay tuned.
