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I have spend most of today getting all the storm chase vehicle pages back online again. Images had to be modified, content copied and rearranged, and general just a lot of work. The only thing lacking is adding my chase partners vehicle, which will most likely be done tomorrow (well later today, I see it’s already 3 am!) The current chase vehicle and my past ones back to about 2000 are there. I didn’t really take a lot of pictures of the ones before that and what I did have most were lost in a fire anyway.
There is some extra stuff in there if you go to the main page of the site and click on the link in the menu, that will show for you as well. 
At any rate…enjoy!
Written by David Drummond on July 17th, 2007 with no comments.
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Well, had to go and do it. Had to move to a dedicated Word Press installation. The Wordpress integrated into my website’s CMS were just not working like I wanted, and didn’t allow some features of WordPress I wanted to use. Most notably, the ability for users to register so the don’t have to type in all that info every time they want to comment!
So here we are!
If you were linking to the old blog location, please update your links to http://wx5tvs.com/blog/ same goes for bookmarks. This location will not be changing again any time soon if ever. Let me now if you linked so I can give you a link back!
Now on to more work…
Last few days I have been doing my annual OS install on my desktop. I usually back everything up, format the drives and do a fresh install of Windows about once a year. Keeps everything running top notch. It’s a pain in the rear, but necessary to clean out the cobwebs of Windows. Now that I have accomplished that, I can continue with work on the website, so new stuff coming shortly!
Written by David Drummond on July 13th, 2007 with no comments.
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For whatever reason, I can’t seem to get the REGISTER links to appear in the sidebar for the blog. The CODE is there, they just aren’t showing up for some reason. Since this was an integration of Wordpress into Joomla CMS, I suspect it might be tied to Joomla’s ability to allow people to register for the site as a whole. I will investigate that later I guess.
Apparently, the module I used to make this happen is no longer being supported by the developer. 
It appears that the only way I am going to get full blog functionality the way I wanted is to separate it from the site, rather than have it integrated. I am concerned this will make traffic to the actual site suffer….what do you guys think? Certainly, I can cross link between the two, I don’t know….
Written by David Drummond on July 8th, 2007 with no comments.
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I went ahead and got the old FAQ page back online as well before I got too tired to work on this tonight. I did a few minor changes, but if someone would like to look it over and see if they can think of any other REALLY GOOD FAQ questions that should go there I would appreciate it. It’s linked in the left menu, or click here.
Wow, 3 whole sections back online in one day! I am making progress now!
Written by David Drummond on July 7th, 2007 with 8 comments.
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First….thanks everyone for the great reception to my new blog! More than I expected actually!
I just got TWO new section added back to the site. Chase data and Satellites! These were sections of the old website. Had to go through and do some reformatting to fit the new style, drop some adsense in there and fix some outdated links and add a couple of new ones.
Overall though….progress. Not sure if I am going to add any more tonight….maybe.
Now if I could just get adsense to stop showing those stupid public service ads and instead show some real ones!
If you guys see something that ain’t right there, or you think should be linked on those pages, by all means, let me know!
Written by David Drummond on July 6th, 2007 with no comments.
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