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Scottsworld 2020

Scottsworld Other than changing the links menu from the side to the top there was not any real major changes. I just updated both my ancestory database and the Henry Woodward Database on the Genealogy pages on 12-30-2020. I was not sure when I had last done it and Roy Arthur Kelly II my cousin had sent me updates on his family.

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WordPress made some changes and now automatically updates the plugins. Which is much appreciated, before I was weekly updating plugins more than I was actually blogging which was getting annoying. I logged in today and ran an SEO update and update my theam, which was the first time I’ve logged in to the WordPress app on my website in a couple months now.

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As part of Scottsworld also got the menu change and actually happened on the weather pages first. Forgot both also got some mobile coding so they work well on mobile devices, not that you will see the code and other than it works not notice it either. One change I am not happy about is the National Weather Service made major changes to their radar page, there are no more regional pages so I had to remove the radar graphic from the weather page because it was broken.. This is the new NWS Radar page and this is the NWS Tutorial on the new Radar page..

BTW I am officially a NWS weather spotter now. We are to report things like; tornadoes, storm damage, flooding, less than 1 mile visibility, large amounts of rain, hail and Snow. NWS SKYWARN Storm Spotter Program

Not that we get a lot of those things in Phoenix or even a big monsoon storm in the last couple years. We are down nearly 4 inches of rain for the year and the only real weather news was it was hot for a long time and we broke several heat related records. We were still hitting 100’s and 90’s into October and it did not drop below 80 until well into December. Then it went from 90 to 60’s in one week. I had to put a coat on to put up Christmas decorations because I was cold at 60.. I grew up in Colorado so I know what real cold feels like.

I am also a CoCoRaHS Community Collaborative Rain, Hail & Snow member, I have an official CoCoRaHS Rain Guage mounted on my weather station and the app on my phone to report any type of moisture we receive. Mostly this year I have cleaned dust and dead bugs out of the rain gauge. Blury thing in the corner is my finger.. Have trouble holding the phone and taking photos..

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Scottsworld Website changes

Some changes to the webpages, replaced the drop down link menu with a side bar menu which works much better, the drop down tended to be touchy and did not work well in some versions of Explorer..

The gospel principles pages are gone, I was getting a lot of complaints from people asking to be removed from the list who were apparently too dumb to read the directions at the bottom of every message..  I dot not have a lot of time to post it any more and when I stopped two years ago not one person emailed me asking why. Most email lists have died, I think a lot of people only do social media any more.  I know most of the time the only traffic on my  LDS singles list  was the monthly posting of the rules of the list.    I’m not single any more so I don’t post on it myself.

Cleaned up the links pages which I had not really done in 4 years.  A lot of LDS sites have disappeared and many other sites as well.

Working on getting my Cactus Wren, Scott’s Weather Station pages up. I had to change from Virtual Weather Station because it kept crashing in Windows 10 and the author doesn’t seem to want to support it any more. Have switched to Weather Display, some what more complicated, settings are scattered all over mutiple menus and webpage creation is a lot more complicated. I understood how VWS did it, now having to learn a whole new system.

Just installed a new beta editor in  Word Press called Gutenberg,  Seems nice so far.  It will be the new editor in WP 5. It introduces the block and you can move them around and edit things easier.

Pretty much all new content will be here in the scottsworld blog as I can just sit down and type with out a lot of html editing, and then having to FTP it to the website. Which all that is a whole process that takes time.

Thanks for visiting Scottsworld, surprised there are 180 people subscribed to this blog.

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New blog up.

Hello.

I’m Scott Scheibe and this is my website/blog and so forth. Welcome.

I had a blog on my old hosting on godaddy but when I moved my hosting to hostmonster it didn’t transfer as godaddy used blogging software built into their hosting.  Hostmonster offers a lot more features and is cheaper.  For instance I have PHP and MYsql here. I finally decided to get it set it up here with a new WordPress site.  This will mostly be about my site http://scottsworld.info and things related.   Latest news is I have installed WordPress and the The New Generation of genealogy publishing, TNG.   http://scottsworld.info/genealogy/index.php  TNG is a on demand genealogy database, instead of the  static html pages which never chanced unless I uploaded and update this will produce everything from group sheets, ancestral and descendant charts, multi media as it is requested by the user.   I haven’t updated my site in a while and some links still need fixing and some stuff needs updating.  This the default WordPress, I have not customized it as yet.  It is very late but wanted to get a post in place to replace the sample it started with.