I’m over a month behind on my follow-up notes, because I was already behind when I started the process of moving, and once I got moved and rested enough, I chose to finish up some even-more-overdue picture sets. Sorry they’re so late. I’ll do my best to make them worth the wait this round. For new clients, let me explain my follow-up notes: they contain at least one large picture of me, and sometimes more. Often I send an additional extra-naughty picture for people who have left me official feedback. And my follow-up notes include your name and a personalized thought, so you know it’s not bulk mail (unless I don’t know your name and you bought something from me without us talking, in which [read more...]
As soon as I got the camera running, I made a little “hello world” video so I could always remember how much I’ve learned along the way. Sure enough, there were about a dozen things I’d love to fix: I forgot to say “hello world” first, the glare from the computer screen on my glasses, how I was positioned on the bed, I forgot to thank the person who bought me the camera (thank you slave!)… But I can forgive myself because I’m soooooo excited! And because I’d rather have the honest first shot than muck with it. And now… let’s see how blogspot does with embedding video (wmv format, 28 seconds long): So after I got the cam, I went shopping for some new [read more...]
Even though I’ve been busier today than I feared (what with it being Super Bowl Sunday and all), I did still manage to get a very exciting thing done – I created Gallery Galiana! http://galianachance.com/gallery I wanted a simpler web-based way to deliver groups of pictures for sale, especially now that I’m getting a new camera (any day now!). I can easily enter captions, protect albums which are pay-to-view, and have the user experience be a little more feature-rich than I am willing to build on my own. On Friday, I realized that my hosting provide had free image galleries available as auto-installer scripts, so all I had to do was compare features, install, configure, and I was good to go! Each individual task was [read more...]
I have published a new page with some of my favorite feedback comments: http://galianachance.com/blog/feedback/ So far it has very few comments. I kept getting interrupted last night / early this morning by having awesome calls (nice problem to have!), so I didn’t get far. But I wanted to go ahead and publish it so I could knock something off my to-do list, because I have too many to-do items rattling around in my brain again. My “plan” is to add comments sporadically, whenever I need the insecurity-eliminating boost of confidence I get by sorting through nice things people have said about me. How often do I need that kind of encouragement? Would it be bad to admit: almost every day? I’ve added little comments about [read more...]