What's new!
Recent changes and additions
to our website
05.15.2010: Karma catches up with Sky
Rocket ...
Despite our extensive precautions and efforts
that lasted the entire time Sky
Rocket was ours, Rocky managed to kill himself on May 14,
2010. We mourn for the huge loss to the working and Classic llama
gene pools. We also are finally admitting that all of us -- humans
and llamas alike -- have been making huge and unreasonable sacrifices
for nearly nine years now in an attempt to keep Rocky
safe from the consequences of his own arrogance. Life will move
ahead; it is what it is.
Some individual llamas' pages have been updated
to reflect expected offspring and availability today.
04.21.2010: really unexpected and unpleasant
surprise and delays ...
Unexpected overtime at work has stymied my
re-construction project, and I'm having to re-learn some of the
stuff I learned and forgot. Fortunately, the excellent lynda.com
training is always available to me for review.
Due to the impossibilities of getting tech
support from att.net (for example, we're now no longer able to
manage our email accounts!), we began changing emails late last
month to domain-name based emails. It's a MAJOR pain now, but
after it's done, that means no more email links will need to
be changed because they'll all "port" with the domain
names if we're ever forced to move those. So it's good in the
long run, but it really couldn't have happened at a worse time.
Most of my scarce time that could be spared
for the website has gone towards updating the site email links.
If you find any links on our pages to [any email]@att.net, please
contact me with the page you found it on and I'll get on it.
I also found and fixed a dead link to Sky
Rocket's stud service page.
Our llama friend Joey,
who was supposed to have been returned to us, was found in the
nick of time at a meat auction in Everson, Washington! Our friend
Niki Kuklenski scrambled to find someone to buy him back for
us, and then we had to drop everything the following weekend
to bring him home. To say we're very angry doesn't begin to cover
it; there is simply no excuse whatsoever for Friday Creek Farm
to put Joey
at risk like that. I put my anger to use and so now you can read
a short version of his story here.
As an unexpected bonus, Lost
Creek Klahowya (born at JNK
Llamas) came along with Joey
instead of joining us a bit later this year.
I've also added a page for the Llamas
at Lost Creek Annex ... since they're family, too!
~ Gwen
02.06.2010: unexpected surprise ...
att.net has notified us that they will no
longer provide website hosting of any kind. We do get to keep
our emails for now (and have chosen to do that for now, or until
that gets taken away, too -- moving the website will take time
enough).
The drawbacks to this are primarily for me
-- I have had to go back into the old webpage authoring software
and change each and every link on every single page MANUALLY.
Upshot: lotsa time, probably more than a few errors.
On the other hand, there's a positive side
for you website guests: I've moved hosting to the same company
that already does our domain name forwarding. Although you still
need to update bookmarks, from this point forward if we are forced
to change servers again, any moves will be totally invisible
to you, and your bookmarks will work no matter where we move
the site.
Of course all this busywork means other page
updates and re-construction has been delayed further, but that's
the way it is ...
Stage two: Server change necessities
UPDATED:
All internal links (in theory) have been changed
and updated.
Hint: if you're trying to get to a page and
only have the old URL, simply do the following:
(1) substitute "lostcreekllamas.com"
for everything AFTER "http://" and BEFORE the final
backslash ( / ), no matter what it was before.
(2) remove the final "l" (that's
lower cast "L") from "html".
(The naming convention is now "htm"
rather than "html", and I was headed there eventually
anyway ... and it's easiest on everyone if I got that out of
the way now, during the server change when all the old links
and bookmarks HAVE to be updated anyway.)
Example:
The old URL for the page on misdirected territorial
aggression
http://home.att.net/~lostcreekllamas/mta.html
... becomes:
http://lostcreekllamas.com/mta.htm
The "for
sale" page has also been updated, but not yet been transferred
to Dreamweaver (the new website authoring software) because I
am still figuring out pulldown menus (which will affect virtually
all the pages still in the old format).
NOT UPDATED:
Memorial page entries (so there will be some
dead links throughout the site for a few llamas we've lost)
Most external links have not been verified
Most pages have not undergone proofing for
possible content updating.
NOT CREATED:
Or rather, "not created STILL" ...
All llama show record pages, despite the links
near the bottoms of the respective pages
Many of the Flickr® photo collections
... some are there, and all of those will work when you click
the llama's photo ... some aren't there yet (and the link will
send you to my llama set on Flickr, but not to any individual
llama).
Also, a couple of new llamas don't yet have
their own pages yet.
This should be the worst of the RE-construction
from your standpoint.
Now that I have gone thorugh all the internal
links, PLEASE email
me if you find any that don't work, and tell me what page you
found the dead link on.
11.22.2009: Re-construction, finally!
The changing internet and browsers forced
me into a new computer almost two years ago. My old computer
is a lime iMac (remember those?), and NONE of my software is
even remotely compatible with the new iMac ... the old Mac can't
handle the new high-speed line, and so isn't even hooked up to
the internet anymore. Which means maintaining the website is
not impossible, but hugely time-consuming.
So ... it was logical to spend that time moving
from Adobe PageMill 3.0 (points awarded if you remember THAT)
to learning Adobe Dreamweaver CS4. I am no dummy (per my teachers,
students, supervisors, you-name-it), but this has really been
a HUGE and totally unproductive struggle for me. I assumed it
was because of the knowledge gap that widened while I innocently
continued to work in PageMill; certainly only having some time
here and there rather than a large block didn't help matters.
Many expensive books later (not to mention an upgrade from CS3
to CS4), I am hearing that anyone should
expect to take a year or two to learn Dreamweaver. Great ...
I have a full-time job AND I would rather play with my llamas.
Thanks to the thorough video tutorials on
lynda.com, I am -- much to
my amazement -- working somewhat competently in Dreamweaver after
only a week (wish I'd known about lynda.com
a loooong time ago!!!!). BUT ... I'm still working full-time,
and so the re-construction will be happening in stages.
Stage one: The llama family pages
UPDATED:
Our
llama family page
All of the individual llamas' pages, which
link from the llama
family page
NOT UPDATED:
Links within ALL pages to llamas who have
been sold or died (those pages will be reformatted soon); you
can reach them from the main links (graduates
and gone
but not forgotten) at the bottom of the llama
family page
Links within ALL OTHER pages to individual
llamas' pages (you'll have to go to the llama
family page when you hit a dead link).
NOT CREATED:
All llama show record pages, despite the links
near the bottoms of the respective pages
Many of the Flickr® photo collections
... some are there, and all of those will work when you click
the llama's photo ... some aren't there yet.
I'll update this page with known problems
(ie, things I can't resolve until a future stage) and detours
as they occur.
Having a problem not listed
above? Please email
me, 'cuz I may not even know about it!
Thanks,
Gwen
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