Firstly, Welcome Back!
This "WiX" website I am developing is more or less the same as the old WordPress site - that is just a diary (OK, a blog), with thoughts and comments being posted as and when they occur - and when I have the time to post them.
I was using Wordpress, but problems with the site hosting meant that I had to look for an alternative. WiX had better recommendations than most of the other options for the style I want - and, most importantly, allows me to maintain the password-style privacy to let you in and keep the general public out. One, hopefully minor, issue is that the site needs to be set up for both PCs and phones / pads - I am concentrating on the PC side at first, then will “refine” the portable device version.
Why not Facebook? It is an obvious alternative, but it´s not for me. Despite producing this blog, I hate social media and all it has become.
The sections are pretty-much as before, with Living in Spain, In My Opinion (ie my rants!), Philosophy and Friends & Family - which is just a collection of things that occur to me about things I have done, places I have been and people I have met (be warned!).
I think that the "philosophy" section is relatively timeless, so I will probably bring a lot of that across (and it inspires me to take another look at things that have caught my imagination in the past).
The "Tags" are quite useful as I will try to use them to indicate the type of content - eg Diary is just what has been happening recently, xWP is for anything I have brought across from the old Wordpress site during the trial, etc., etc.
In general, names have been changed to protect the innocent and avoid legal action! Photographs have usually been taken by me or, more rarely, borrowed from sharing sites. As I become more familiar with the software, I may change the look and feel of the site, but as a "quick & dirty" method of starting up, I tried to get it into a look that should be familiar.
There are now 6 buttons at the head of the page, with home, posts and galleries, plus search, information and contact. Contact is a weird screen you will possibly have encountered already and that allows you to send me a message - I have modified it to make it as neutral as possible! Posts takes you to the section with all the posts, whilst galleries takes you to the photo section - which is probably mostly the same old stuff, but should be better catalogued and ordered as I get into it. The post categories are listed on the left of the homepage and there is a tag-cloud on the right which allows you to find post relating to a particular topic.
When you are in a specific post, you will now see a selection of the categories appearing as a header line too (and I have absolutely no idea why I can only see it there, so there are still mysteries in my universe)
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