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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.

Cactus Wren Weather Station

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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    Weather station with CoCoRahs guage

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I have the WordPress App on my phone and just discovered it has not posted any post I made on it and saved them as drafts on my phone which makes it pretty much useless.

So I will be posting some messages I wrote as far back as 7 months ago.. I copied the drafts and saved them as new texts in my Dropbox so I can open then on my computer and post them..

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Moving from Hostmonster to Bluehost

Was having issues with Hostmonster, first my sitemap program would never run to completion, talked to them 3 times about it and each time they said they fixed it and it still did not work. Very pleased it runs here on Bluehost in minutes where it ran over an hour on Hostmonster and never finished. .

Biggest reason I moved to Bluehost was this blog was hacked some how and a bunch of malware was installed on the site. Hostmonster took my site down (you may have seen “this site is suspended” if you are a regular visitor to my weather page or any other page) and wanted me to pay them $70 a month to fix it. I told them at the beginning of the chat that I would move my hosting some where else. They were not cooperative and even after I deleted the malware from the site they would not put it back up. They seem to think they could force me to pay them the $70 a month  for the service when my hosting was like $18 a month.. After chatting with them for over 2 hours I told them enough and I was moving. My hosting was up for renewal any way.

I am happy with Bluehost https://www.bluehost.com/ they have been very responsive to fix issues and as of this afternoon the last item on my major items was to get my wordpress blog back up and as you can see it is. I searched for security plugins and installed a firewall so hopefully It won’t get hacked again. Also removed all inactive themes and plugins, everything was uptodate before I got hacked so that was not the issue. WordPress had updated like two weeks before it was hacked.  But the latest Wordpess version now says the previous version had vulnerabilities .

Moving has meant some major changes. I did not put the LDS Singles pages backup, Facebook has pretty much killed email lists and there had been no post on it other than the monthly FAC sent automatically for 2 years and I have not been single for 4 or 5 years so it was time to go.

I have gotten redirection going so my urls all changed from https://scottsworld.info/weather/  to https://weather.scottsworld.info      and so on for a short time.   It is fixed now

Chased a lot of broken links where my stupid editor had not successfully global changed something or other issues. My sitemap program shows broken internal links. https://www.xml-sitemaps.com .   I do not like WeBuilder my html/css editor, but the previous software was not supported any more. I tried Dreamweaver but Adobe has this scam where they don’t sell you stuff any more. Instead they want to charge you a $30 a month usage fee each for Dreamweaver or Photoshop and their other software. It crashed while I was testing it and lost over an hours work so it got uninstalled.  Right now I am testing a freeware open source editor called Atom.  https://atom.io/

I updated TNG The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding v. 12.2  and the gedcoms into the database recently and on the move some how lost the settings for the main page, so I tested all the themes and picked the one out of 3 of the 18 available themes. I picked a photo for the page which turned out to be HUGE and was running of the page so I need some software to reduce it. I first tried the trial version of Photo shop as I  into the really only needed it once. It took forever to download and install and was still installing hours later. In the mean time I downloaded a free program, reduced the image by 50% and uploaded while Photoshop was still trying to install so I killed it and uninstalled Adobe cloud again. I would not recommend Adobe software to any one.

So the photo on the page https://genealogy.scottsworld.info/index.php  is my Parents and grandparents when my parents got married in 1963. Sad to say everyone in the Photo has passed on. My father died this summer which leaves me as the oldest remaining Scheibe in that branch of our family tree. I was 55 last spring. My mother died in 2015 from complications of alzheimers, which runs in her family, her mother and all her older siblings died of it leaving only the two youngest still alive. My father lost his only sibling, his sister to breast cancer in 2008 and both his parents from old age later that year, he has not been the same since and just gave up caring for himself.

Anyway this post was about the website and I am wondering.. Will post more later.

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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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Website update

Hostmonster.com which hosts my website is updating to PHP 5.4 so I had to update my PHP apps which include WordPress and TNG The Next Generation Genealogy Software  I’m running PHP fast which should be faster because it loads the processor in to memory instead of calling it for each request.  Seems to be working. I haven’t played with WordPress or my blog here much but I can tell TNG runs faster. Now running 9.2.2 of TNG.  I just imported all my blogger account posts.  That need some work, some didn’t get categories and tags for some reason..   Made some technical changes to my website, updated the copyright information for 2014.

Well it is 9:30pm and other than a candy bar haven’t eaten anything since I got home a few hours ago.. Better quit fooling around on the computer and do something about dinner.

 

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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.

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