Comments on: A Doctor Dolittle Moment

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:41:07 +0000

Now Martin, how on earth did you work that out .
And you’re right, I did cheat…

By: Martin Banfield

Martin Banfield — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:20:13 +0000

Mount Titiroa (1715m) – hey, I knew I’d get it in the end!
PS I think I still owe you a prize for getting the Postcard from Timperley header! But I think you cheated?
Have fun
Martin

By: Paul Filby

Paul Filby — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:05:39 +0000

Hi Mark,
Thank you. It’s early days yet, but I hope I’ll soon have a decent number of posts and perhaps a few articles etc. to get the NZ guide going. The NZ trip you’re thinking of joining looks great. I’ll try and post about the Kepler, Routeburn or Abel Tasman tracks sometime over the next few weeks, and maybe look into putting a photo gallery on the blog somewhere. So much I could do — so little time!

If you’ve any questions about NZ I might be able to help with then fire away (re. tramping anyway!). I was out there for most of 2003, but I doubt things have changed too much in the interim.

Cheers,
Paul.

By: Mark Alvarez

Mark Alvarez — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:47:20 +0000

Hi, Paul,

Martin wrote that if I like his blog, I’ll probably like yours, and I do. It looks terrific, and I’m looking forward to reading about your time in New Zealand, where I’m hoping to be in February.

Best wishes,
Mark

By: Paul Filby

Paul Filby — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:59:05 +0000

Thanks Martin, Sue.
One of the disadvantages of having more scope with a self-hosted Wordpress blog, is that there are almost endless possibilities re. what can be done with it. Wordpress strikes me as a CMS that happens to be very good at (and is fine-tuned for) running a blog.

I need to concentrate on content again now, having replaced the boring standard header with a photo (that’s Chris stood on the rock incidentally, in case you were wondering — there’s a beer in it for you if you can tell me where he is — closest town will do), and messed about with some other widgets. I should go back to sketching out designs as I intimated I would in an earlier post!

The captioned photos embedded in the posts are standard Wordpress. The animated enlargement effect when you click a photo is a plug-in (free for non-commercial use — I’m still waiting for a license key, so it pops up a “nag” message occasionally). I haven’t looked into tracking visitors yet (web analytics), but will add that to the list!

Cheers,
Paul.

By: Martin Banfield

Martin Banfield — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:18:16 +0000

Hi Paul
Well done on getting this up and running. We finished up with blogger because our ISP didn’t support the Wordpress database. I think perhaps you have more scope with Wordpress, but slightly different features.
Have you set up a widget to track and count visitors?
How do you produce the nicely captioned pictures – is that a Wordpress thing?
Anyway, enjoy the blogging – you’ll make new friends!
Best wishes
Martin and Sue