If you tried to visit our blog over the weekend you were most likely greeted by something other than the blog. Our web host was hacked on April Fools Day and they had to take down all of the sites that they host. Every customer had to have their files re-uploaded from backups. It literally took all weekend. I’m glad I was not them. I’m sure they heard an ear full. I’ve tested almost everything and it seems to be in normal working order for now.

We’re still testing the blog and how it works. There should be a link above this – other than the title.

Sorry to bother you

Well, over the last week I’ve spent more time than I could afford trying to get the blog back up and going. I think I’ve restored most of the tweaks and 85% of the older posts. There is still a time gap from November 12, 2008 until Sept. 22, 2009. Fortunately(?) we didn’t post a lot during the last winter and early spring. Unfortunately, if we want those posts back on the blog we’ll have to re-enter them one by one.

So if you see some weird posts appear in your feed reader or over at Facebook, they may be blasts from the past

P.S. I’m trying out a new plugin that should put a tagline at the beginning of the RSS feed that will let people who are reading on a feed reader or Facebook know that it is really a blog post and it will provide a link to our blog. This should be the first post that will have it. . . . We’ll see how obtrusive it is ~

Thanks to the terrific and blazingly fast support of the plugin author I was able to get the “gallery in a post” thingie working. See the post below this one.
If you click on one of the pics it will come up larger on the screen as a layer on top of what you were viewing. Underneath this larger pic is a more detailed description of it. When you hover your mouse cursor over the larger picture right and left arrows appear near the edges of the picture. This allows you to click on the arrows to go forward and backwards in the group of pictures. When you reach either end the arrow for that direction does not appear. It’s really simple.

Tech stuff – the two WordPress plugins it takes to make this work are:
PhotoJAR and Lightbox
Thanks again to the PhotoJAR author for the quick and accurate help.

Let’s see what this thing will do . . . .

Hmmmmm . . . leaving here in hopes of getting help.

All fixed!
Let me know if it is too slow to load.

A friend of ours shared a nifty link with us. I think it deserves to be shared others Instead of just mentioning it in a blog post where it will eventually be buried by newer posts, I’ve placed it in the sidebar, that strip on the left that contains things that are always there. It is the 2nd link under the heading Offsite. It is a website called God’s Yellow Pages. Go there to find links to verses in the Bible that speak to specific situations that are listed in the Yellow Pages. Very handy! Enjoy!

Sorry for the lull in new entries. Fran and I have been extra busy with end-of-the-BSF-year “stuff”. I’m completely finished now and Fran just has a couple of meetings and some admin things to wrap up before the Matthew study is completed.

I’ve finally gotten the WordPress blogging software updated to the latest release. It has some new features behind the scenes that will hopefully improve the performance as well as maintenance. I took the opportunity to also put a new “skin” on TheBellSite while I was at it. I was going for something that looked more summery. What do you think?

More to follow – soon, I hope.

We all need to do that – don’t we?

Well, this is a link to a website that is pretty impressive. I won’t spoil it for you. Just click the link and go there.  It takes a while for it to get all loaded up; just be patient. You can play while you are waiting. Pay attention to what is happening

Get Out And Play

Let me know what you think.

Anyone using a photo sharing website that they are really wild about?
If so, please leave a comment and tell us the reasons why you love it. If there are any negatives please share those also.
I just put up a few pictures of us goofing off while in Bangkok. I’m giving Smugmug a 14 day trial. See the gallery HERE

My favorite (and still FREE) Bible Study software, e-Sword, has just been updated. You can download a new installation or an update here: