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Getting Started with the Site

While Jill was visiting she agreed under great duress to show me a little bit about using Dreamweaver and the mechanics of websites. (Although I originally said "she offered", when she read that, she made me imply force or else she wouldn't tell me anything else). So this is an experiment in the basics of assembling a website. Right now I'm dealing with mechanics - doing batch photo reductions, assembling album pages, making links, adding hot spots links, and coloring background album index pages. (Since none of the 200 colors suited me for the background for Santorini, I even "invented" my own color. Neat, huh?) I decided to start with pictures of the trip to Greece since that is what I've been working on lately. Later I will probably add other photos, including of my dolls, but that's going to involve a lot of scanning since I haven't scanned most of the photos or transparencies of the dolls - about all I have is the ones I've done since we've had a digital camera. Also, I think my scanner is getting sickly and it never did do as good a job on transparencies as David's does anyway.

Greece

Would you believe about 700 photos and AVIs on the Canon Elph that I used and David probably took close to another 300 photos on the Panasonic? Even after what I estimate to be 100 to 150 shots out of focus or immediately deletable for other reasons, that's still a lot of stuff to wade through. (And since it was "dark and stormy night" as well as day - or at least overcast or hazy a lot - there is a lot of Photoshopping needed, mainly contrast and saturation adjustments.) Back in the days when we were buying color film, we sure wouldn't have come home with a fourth that many pictures. Heck, we didn't even come near that with B&W when we were in Europe for 11 weeks in '71 and were doing our own processing. I'm not always sure that the digital age is such a good thing, and certainly it's not exactly a time saver in the strict sense. We just do more in the same amount of time.

But even with all those photos, I realize that there are a lot more I should have taken. Maybe more shots of un-monumental but charming areas in Athens.. Surely I should have gotten at least one picture of a blue-roofed white church on Santorini, even though it seemed a bit overdone and trite at the time. And you know, I kinda wish I had taken some pictures of the food. (Jill asked me to take some photos of toilets, but most of the ones we found had been improved since she was there 30 mo. ago. But we did take pictures for her of the new toilets at the Akrotiri excavations, which are now the usual porcelain fixtures - with seats! - instead of the hole in the floor. ) But what I did get were some closeups of wildflowers, olive trees, snails on Santorini (cousins of which I consumed with glee on Crete), one-horned goats and sheep, and a few other odd little subjects.

You can take links to the various albums, click the thumbnail if you want to look at a bigger shot, and then you can hit "next" and continue through the entire album in the larger size. On some of the photos (marked with an *), you can click on a "hot spot" that will take you to a detail shot. (Some of these detail shots are actually smaller than the section in the hot spot. Not sure how to fix that yet.)

 

 

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