Web Site Announcements

FriendFeed Room for Squashy Frog Photography

This is for all you people out there that are into your social news/media/bookmarking stuff (like me ).  I’ve created a new room on FriendFeed for Squashy Frog Photography and you’ll be able to find it here:

http://friendfeed.com/rooms/squashyfrogphotography

Or click on the image below:

So what does it include, well lots of things.  Here’s a list of the main ones: -

• New blog articles from Squashy Frog Photography
• Photos from my Flickr stream
• Photos of my favourites from Flickr
• Tweets from Twitter
• Favourite images added to the photo bookmarking site, vi.sualize.us
• Photography-related articles dugg on Digg
• My deviantART favourites

So please join the new room if it looks like something that is up your street.  There might be some duplication from one service to the other but it’s not too bad and I hope to figure out a way to avoid it in the future.

You can also find my individual FriendFeed page here:

http://friendfeed.com/koltregaskes

I hope to see you on there.

In additional I’ve created specific Squashy Frog Photography social media users.  For more information please read my article entitled ‘Squashy Frog Photography gets social‘.

Upgraded to WordPress 2.5

Just to say that I have successfully upgraded the site to version 2.5 of WordPress (my webblog application). I was suprised how easy and smoothly it went. I used a automatic upgrade plugin which walked me through the process of backing up, downloading and installing. It couldn’t be much easier and couldn’t have gone any smoother.

So what does this mean to you? Well nothing, really. The site was down for a mere few minutes and once back up it looks pretty much identical to what it did before.

What does it mean for me? This is a big upgrade for WordPress and if you are interested you can follow the link below to find out about the new features and fixes that I’ve gained.

What it means in general is that there is no issue with 2.5 (as you can see) and the Revolution theme hasn’t complained about it. So now I can think about launching the site.

I have 3 articles I would like to write beforehand, plus a couple of re-posts and the About needs updating. Once these are done, the switch will be implemented and we can start proper.

Nearly there.

Link for WordPress 2.5 info:
http://wordpress.org/development/2008/03/wordpress-25-brecker/

No new WordPress… yet

I’ve just read that there will not be a version 2.5 of WordPress released today.  It’s now expected in a week or so’s time.  All this means that any shutdown and potential follow-up problems with my site while I update it to the new version are postponed until there.  For anyone interested the latest news on WordPress please read the excerpt below and follow the link:

According to this milestone in the WordPress Trac, 2.5 is delayed by a week or even more. There is a lot of work being done on styling, bug fixes and open tickets and even though the milestone is delayed to 3/17/08, a well polished release will be more appreciated and will be better for the community than a rush to release.

The full article can be found here.

Welcome

Hello!

This is a quick post to say hello and welcome to my site. Out with the old Serendipity and PixelPost sites and in with the new all-in-one WordPress/Revolution site. If you’ve somehow found this site now you’ll see that it’s very much in the construction process. I uploaded the new site early January 2008 to the UK domain during the implementation process. Once all the basics are set-up and I’m happy to go the old photography site and blog will be taken down and replaced with what you see here. So if you bear with me I will be working on the site over the coming days, weeks and months.

Please watch this space for more for more news and details.

Kol Tregaskes
Administrator/Photographer
Squashy Frog Photography