The switch from PHP 7.4 to 8.0 didn’t go as smoothly as I hoped. A certain site design plugin didn’t got maintained and crashed certain functions incl. the site administration of the website.
After some trail and error attempts, I was able to remove the “ugly duck” and to recover the basic functionality and the contents. Now I have to redisign the look and feel with more actual plugins. This might take some time. Stay tuned.
Best regards
Fritz
Hi,
long time no see 😉 .
After my last post end of January 2020 it got very quiet here. Let me give you an update what happened.
Beginning of March, Nike and I flew to Lanzarote, Canary Islands for another dog, cats and house sitting gig at our friends house. Originally we planned to come back on March 31st, but we got caught in the spanish lockdown starting March 14th. After some ok/nok/ok … our return flight got canceled by Condor.
Now we had to decide to stay or use one of the rerouted emergency return flights via Gran Canaria, Madrid or/and Barcelona to Frankfurt or …. As another friend offered us to stay in his empty house we decided to wait-and-see. The strict Spanish full lockdown lasted for 50 days, but we had a nice garden and one of the cats joined us at the new house. In June the restriction got slowly lifted and we could start to walk & drive around or go the the beach. On July 13, we returned with one of the first TUI flights directly from Lanzarote to Munich.
After cleaning up the large backlog of things-to-do, I restarted my web design activity mid of August. As I wanted to learn more about a full cloud-based setup I’ve rented a V-Server at Strato.de and build another web site from scratch. The result is www.dirschedl.de, my web technology playground. There you will find more information about the web technology I use and about my learning experience as I move on.
For the time being, I plan to focus this website dirschedl.info on photography related topics and dirschedl.de on web technology in general. Lessons I learn, will be applied on both website over time. Let’s see.
Best regards and stay safe
Fritz
During the last weeks, I was a really busy to plan (and re-plan) our next trip. It will be very interesting, different and might include some challenges …
To protect our home and privacy (“you never know..), I will not disclose more details publicly on this site till we are back. If you are interested to get some updates before and during our trip, just drop me a short email to fritz@dirschedl.de, and I will send you a private link.
Best regards
Fritz
I’ve just resized all pictures to max. 1500×1000 from 1800×1200. Let’s see how this improves the start time of the light box in the galleries.
Best regards
Fritz
PS: the light box is the view you’ve get after clicking on one of the thumbnail images. It seems to preload (all?) pictures in the gallery, which takes some time if you’re on an slow/mobile connection.
I’ve just added an About Me page.
I’ve just added a Contact Page and a Site Map page.
The Contact Page includes our contact info and a form to send us a message.
The Site Map provides direct links to the pages and blog posts.
And the individual Post Pages are now designed with Elementor.
I’m going to test the elementor webpage design plugin from elementor.com.
Let’s see, if it helps to further beef up my webpage designs. And let’s hope, it does not interfere with the Imagely themes and their Nextgen image plugin.
The corresponding test pages are under the menue item Elementor Test.
I’ve linked the site to www.dirschedl.info to simplify the access.
I’ve just added the Privacy Policy for this web site. This information is required to comply to the European GDPR (Global Data Protection Regulation) law.