enhancing 'Bird-of-the-Week
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04-15-2009, 15:04
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enhancing 'Bird-of-the-Week
Fred you can say that again....the site has nothing except 1 picture and that is it for me....or am I missng sumpin
Sitin south of Canton Oh in KOA waiting for Friday and a dry day to to go for Cherry Hill Camp, College Park Md for the weekend Scooter 2000LX Ocqueoc, MI To: WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com From: nytexcel@... Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:13:05 +0000 Subject: [WanderlodgeForum] Re: enhancing 'Bird-of-the-Week Oh, I see them. When you go to the forum site, they show up. But I never do that. Do most people use the forum that way? Open the site each day and read messages there? I just see all the posts forwarded to my email, and I just read them there and never really go to the site for anything, unless someone refers to a photo they've posted or something (which is why I miss the BotW a lot). Fred "nytexcel@yahoo.com" Fred & Wendy Bellows 90SP Queen Creek, AZ (basically Phx) "Maunder Maximum" http://picasaweb. |
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04-16-2009, 03:33
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enhancing 'Bird-of-the-Week
Thanks Greg. That sounds do-able, I guess. The thing about pictures imbedded in
a single post is that they're not easy to look back up, later on. And they're not hi-res, or able to be zoomed in on, to see detail. And those are some of the key goals of this idea of enhancing the `BotW. >Hi-res photos (zoomable), >Good captions, >Searchable by coach name, >and unique-page-linkable (an exposé of our coach could be part of a collection of other coach showcases, but also have a unique url-link that we could include in our forum signatures). After talking about it with everyone, it donned on me that it doesn't need to be added to `BotW at all. It can just be an additional way for us to share some aspects of our `Birds with each other, and not just when we're trying to fix them! And so, I've decided to try this as simply as possible, by just using an online photo viewer like photobucket. Only I've decided that Google's Picasa is slightly better for what we need. So, this won't affect BotW at all, and we'll keep asking Mike to maintain that really fun feature (and let's all remember to help him by sending in more, better, photos, with some detail so that he can create one of his great taglines)! This new feature won't have to be resident on the actual forum server at all. And it won't be a weekly, or monthly-interval posting either. We can just start posting albums right away, and in a few months, we could have hundreds (how many `Birds are there, does anyone know?). `Sort of a showcase of Blue Bird Motor Coaches, listed by coach name, in the form of a collection of photo albums, that will highlight the coach, the lifestyle, the upgraded features, and enjoyment/travel experiences of owning these terrific machines. Each album will spotlight one coach, and may have as many, or as few pictures as you would like. The easy to use captioning feature on Picasa will allow descriptions for each high resolution slide, and comments can be left by viewers. No sign up or membership is needed to view, leave comments, or even submit photos for posting, since you can just email them to me, and I'll create an album on the site with your coach's name on it, and you can add or edit photos at anytime. Another great aspect of this is that you will have a url that links straight to your album, that you can include in your forum signature. So, it'll be like your coach is getting it's fifteen minutes of fame, over and over again, anytime someone clicks on your signature link. And once they're there, they can browse through all the other great `Bird albums. I just started it last night. It was easy. I called it Blue Bird Zoom, since we'll be able to easily search and zoom in on the album of the coach we want to see, and even zoom in on the hi-res photos, and see how they "mounted that TV up there", or whatever. Check it out at http://picasaweb.google.com/bluebirdzoom I created an album for my coach first, as an example (remember, you can have as few as just one photo if you'd like, and easily add more later), and you'll see one "album" there that is just the explanation of the site and how to use it. This seems so simple and handy to me. A great way to see other `Birds in detail, and share favorite things about ours with the rest of the Blue Bird community! Am I missing something? Let me know what objections some people might have about some aspect that I haven't thought of, because I know there'll be something I missed. I know there's a space limit, but I think it's huge, and by the time we near it, we can move this to somewhere else. What do you think? You can send me your ideas on this, and your photos and descriptions to nytexcel@yahoo (.com) Fred nytexcel@... Fred & Wendy Bellows 90SP Queen Creek, AZ (basically Phx) "Maunder Maximum" http://picasaweb.google.com/bluebirdzoom...erMaximum# --- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "timvasqz" > > Yes I only go to the forum and pull down the menu to the left "Messages". You can go to the home page and look at a summary of activity just under the word "Home" there you can see the latest content often hidden from threads (thus emails). > > You can turn off the Yahoo feature that sends emails to your mailbox by going to the link on any page of the online forum. a blue hyperlink "edit Membership" (above the word Forum in the purple line) will take you to a page where you can define your preferences for mail delivery for just that forum. > > when you go to a reply link of a message the screen that comes up is a text entry screen for your reply/comments. Yahoo has a new text entry screen that you can use called Rich-Text Editor you must first choose to use this 'Richtext editor' then find images to add to your reply. It is best to have the images loaded some place not password protected. The photos I use of Jays Bus are password protected but that permission is the same that you need to view the message as they are hosted on this forum in photos. > > I opened two windows in ie7 one to make the reply and one to look for photos. made the reply in Rich-text and found photos in the other window. when I found Jays bus by the lake. I simply ;clicked on the image ;left clicked to open a submenu than picked copy. with the image now on my clipboard I went back to the window of the reply placed the cursor in the document then right clicked and press paste. > > the unique subject title other than Bird of the week is needed because the term bird of the week picks up many old threads with that exact name. (Bird of week) and a (1 to52 number of week) followed by (the year) "Bird of Week 35 2009" would prove only one unique thread > > Greg of Tim&Greg > 94ptca > --- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "Fred Bellows" > > > > Oh, I see them. When you go to the forum site, they show up. But I never do that. Do most people use the forum that way? Open the site each day and read messages there? I just see all the posts forwarded to my email, and I just read them there and never really go to the site for anything, unless someone refers to a photo they've posted or something (which is why I miss the BotW a lot). > > > > Fred > > nytexcel@ > > > > > > Fred & Wendy Bellows > > 90SP Queen Creek, AZ (basically Phx) > > "Maunder Maximum" > > http://picasaweb.google.com/geefred/MaunderMaximum# > > > |
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