Although I woke up this morning to the sound of those ubiquitous motor vehicles bringing students to the two schools I have as neighbors along my street, the sound of little children laughing and talking while walking, plus the misty early morning has put me in bright spirits, thinking it a good day to do some housekeeping.
But before you guys get the idea that I am some hausfrau, barefoot, and pregnant with cleaning tasks, know that this groovy, opinionated swinging “Oprah’s the New-30″ year old is so inspired by the soft sunlight streaming through the pine trees in my garden that I have decided to to do blog housekeeping.
And guess what? I left my cf storage card for the Canon EOS 400D camera in Manila so now photos of all this beauty will just have to wait. You’ll just have to content yourselves with a pretty recent photo I took of on a similarly beautiful day.
Why would Baguio Insider need redesign?
The categories are too numerous, and sometimes redundant, I will have to sort through them all efore the site gets any larger.
Also, I have been wanting to feature videos on my blog sidebar, and some images, too but, those three column designs with the text in the middle that Baguio Insider has been using for some time, although they focus on content and readability, do not allow flexibility for the inclusion of large boxes.
I uploaded this wonderful free theme (dull right now, but highly editable) that I feel like playing with, in the next few days, so those of you who visit everyday, will see some minor changes, as I figure out how to work with tabbed boxes and all other design elements that they did not even dream up of when I was a student.
The design bug has bitten me again today. And by the way, while this blog was silent for a while, the other websites have been redesigned.
Please visit:
which has so many new features that I, in colegiala-speak, “am tamad” to list here. You can check the latest in the Articles & Reviews page.
Completely new look
Merged the How to Build a Profitable Web Site Tutorial with the blog. I LOVE the look of my new tech blog.
I UNDERSTAND WHY ARTISTS WOULD FLOCK TO BAGUIO NATURALLY
Because one is most creative when one is closest to nature, to all of God’s creations. And although He gave us the intelligence and the raw materials to invent concrete, I’m sure that if He wanted us to cover up the whole earth with it, like we are doing to the City of Pines these days, then He would have designed it so that Joseph Lansang’s favorite creepy crawly creatures will also thrive on cement!
Is it just me or has anyone else noticed that since the rape of our environment started, the local artists are having, more and more often, nudes as subjects, as if desperately clinging to untouched natural beauty? (And not for much longer, if Vicky Belo had her way)
My gardenias are abloom for all the rains, and my house is filled with natural air fresheners. For us Pinoys, the gardenia is also know as ROSAL, those delicately-scented white flowers that can be easily grown and reproduced by just cuttings!
I wrote a feature on Tam-awan Village at GoBaguio! yesterday and wish I could do something more in depth about the Baguio art scene. Soon… soon…
And although I am no painter or sculptor, or even a wordsmith, I can and do paint passable word pictures of my beloved Baguio City on the web, pretty much a one man show of promoting, photographing (ok, Nico helps me out a lot with this), waxing poetic, search engine optimizing, and crowing all for the sake bringing in outside income to all those living here, and for doing my bit in “forcing beauty upon the city.”
Unlike alot of Baguio residents, the hospitable person that I am, I LOVE tourists! They come, they spend, they leave! And maybe soon, they’ll come back and start another cycle of spending!
BACK TO BLOG HOUSEKEEPING
Ok, so since still I’m babbling almost an hour since I started, the site is still a sad and lonely old lavender. I have to figure this thing out by myself, scouring the web for help on the topics of css stylesheets, editing php and all that.
Normally, one does the redesign on another account and then uploads the whole thing so that the site visitors will always see a smashing site, pero, “close naman tayo, di ba?”
Hahaha.
And just you wait for my next post that deals with the Saint Louis University Nursing Course Screening Policy
Gimme a day or two.
In the meantime, you may want to see Baguio through my eyes (with rose-tinted glasses or just a brilliant memory of good things past?) or learn, perhaps, how to instantly have a wordpress site like this one, or learn more about lasik eye surgery.
Ta-ta for now!
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