Both of my avid readers may have noticed a revision to the photo galleries of the blog. Have no fear dear readers when I get a bit more time (it’s going to be persisting it down tomorrow so maybe then) I’m going to expand the galleries with landscapes, critters and additional bird photo galleries. The experiment with Wordpress over the last year showed just how powerful it is but although at a cost. Wordpress itself is free but the website hosting is certainly not. The hosting companies entice you with next to nothing monthly fees then multiply it by a factor of 10 after the first year. So I’m back to using Google’s free blogger platform. One of the nice things about Wordpress is the ability to create separate pages and nest them. By ‘nesting’ I mean you can select a page and can then select from multiple additional pages. Google Blogger is very good but it’s not as powerful as Wordpress. However, I have discovered a way to achieve more or less the same nested page structure as you can try yourself using the Birds tab from the Home Screen. I’ve started by creating separate pages for Backyard birds over the years in alphabetical order, only one image per species reached from the Birds tab. I’ve completed 4 pages so far and will do more when I can. The advantage of creating smaller sub pages is faster loading and easier to make changes. I don’t intend to create pages for all the bird groups such as Finches, Sparrows, Owls etc but a simpler structure such as Eagles, Hawks, Falcons and Owls, something like that I imagine. I’m not sure if there’s a limit to the number of pages Google allows, I’ll have to find out as I’m going. Watch this space. 🤪
