One more working week...still lots to do to wrap up but things are systematically dropping off the to-do list. Sarah and I have both developed coughs and sore throats over the last couple of days. Hopefully these will resolve themselves before we go. Next week I will try and catch up with most of my clients to make sure they are all aware of what is going on before we head off. Oddly, the

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I have just come back from a couple of days up in Manchester seeing a client. That will probably be the last trip that I will be making to sunny Warrington before we head off. Tomorrow we will be heading up to London for a weekend of seeing our respective Godchildren and delivering Christmas presents. I have a couple of busy days at work updating people on the opportunities present at my client

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This weekend was the last weekend where we had an uninterrupted couple of days to sort out the main things remaining on the to-do list. This week and next weekend we will be up in London seeing various Godchildren before Christmas and the weekend after will be taken up with substitute Christmas dinners and our going away drinks. Given how much there still is to do, the one silver lining to emerge

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The last few days I have fairly busy closing up a piece work but I am now able to make a little progress on the site. Sarah is definitely holding up the fort in terms of the practicalities of preparation for the trip (booking doctors appointments to get antibiotics, organising banking arrangements, etc.). This weekend we have deliberately not planned too much to make sure that we break the back

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I was wondering how best to structure my photo galleries and stumbled across Trippermap. Given that we will be using RapidFlickr to structure the country by country galleries with direct links to Flickr and nice little embedded Flash slideshows, I thought that it would be good to make the most of having the photos on Flickr. Trippermap allows you to take photos that are uploaded onto Flickr and

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With a bit of luck this will work as well..but it looks like there may be a little bug in so far as it doesn't account for the size of the picture in the sizing of the post. The default must be to insert the next post when the text ends and not when the photo ends. I guess that i can work around this for the moment by making sure that there is enough text to wrap around the post. In reality, when

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So here we go with a local picture update..

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I managed to solve the comments issue with an upgrade of the RapidBlog Plug-in to version 1.25 to make it Leopard compliant. But now I seem to have a problem with publishing as it cannot connect to my ftp server. The username and password are definitely correct...will need to chase this down. In the meantime I will try and make sure that I can embed pictures in the blog (locally and remotely

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Todays problem to fix is the absence of comments. I have signed up to Haloscan to manage all the comments but the HTML for the blog page does not seem to include a link to Haloscan to offer the ability to leave a comment. I think that I have ticked the right boxes within the setup area of the editing section in Rapidweaver but no joy. I will investigate later. I am also lacking content in the

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Well...the publishing issue was down to version 3.6.4 not being fully Leopard compliant. I think that there are still a few problems for Realmac to sort out before it is truly Leopard ready...especially with the blogging and photoposting functionality. These should come through with version 3.6.5. It also looks like Version 4 will be coming before the new year.Anyway, after working through some

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The blog seems to be coming along nicely in RapidWeaver but now I have found that there appears to be a problem with publishing the new site to my host. I hope that it is just an issue with settings and not something more fundamental. I have contacted the 'support ninjas' at RapidWeaver for help. Love the title...I need a job title like that...

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So this is the first test message for the RapidBlog plug-in in Rapidweaver. In order to be able to update the website whilst on the road I needed to find a way of updating the content from a remote location. Rapidblog transposes content, as entered in a Blogger blog into the RapidWeaver website. If this does indeed work (with comments) then that is one to-do off the long list.Now how many still

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So...6 weeks and counting but no website.Unbelievably it's now only six weeks until we leave for South America and there are still dozens of things that need to be done. The last couple of days I have been looking into the website options and have settled on RapidWeaver. A couple of months ago I started looking and took the option to ask Sarah to buy a copy of Dreamweaver whilst she was eligible

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