Monday night music
I have been recording a lot of music lately - some by myself, and some with Dan McHugh monday nights at his home recording studio. We’ve been coming up with some really interesting stuff, but since I’ve been so busy I haven’t been able to do much with the website. That’s how it is (with me anyway): when the spark to make music is there you just have to do it, and everything else takes a back seat.
I did upload a bunch of new photos, but I have to set up the simple viewer galleries for them so that may take a while. I’m not so familiar with the simple viewer plugin yet that I can just do it without referencing the readme.
I will be happy when the basic website is finished and I can just upload new music and post about writing and recording music, which is after all the whole point of this site - I just thought I would kind of document my experiences with WordPress as well while I redesigned the site. I don’t know if any of my friends will actually be interested in any of that stuff, but maybe some other people will, plus it’s kind of cool for the band members to see the huge amount of work involved setting up the site, so they don’t think I’m dicking around wondering why it’s taking so long.
It’s actually funny now that I think about it: I have spent an enormous amount of time since 1998 when the first daveryder.com was posted on the internets learning HTML and how to FTP and manage a web hosting account. I really don’t begrudge it, if it wasn’t for all that work and time spent learning I wouldn’t be able to do what I’m doing with the site now. I suppose I would have to outsource it and that would just kill me. I have always been a hands on guy and I love the fact that as ideas occur to me regarding the band’s web presence I can just implement them, or write about them as soon as I think of them.
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