Dumaguete blog versus the Dumaguete website

From it’s inception, I’ve looked at this blog as an extension of the dumaguetecity.net website. Its purpose is basically twofold. I hope to use it to drive visitors to the website and also, as a way of giving those already going to the site an update as to the progress being made on the site. Thanks to the wonder folks at Google and their Analytics program, I’m able to keep track of the hits going to the blog and the website. I find it interesting that the blog keeps getting fewer hits than the website. I’m not complaining….I am happy that so many people have gone to both places but to my mind, it seems that the blog has a bit more to offer when compared to the website. I try to put something new here as often as I can. There are incremental changes being made on the site but those changes are less noticeable. I’m not able at this point to do as much on the website as I’d like. The pen pal section has become a great disappointment to me. I can’t see how I can fix it until I go to Dumaguete. I’m not happy with the photos section either. I have more photos that I could add but these are pictures of family and friends…I don’t think the average visitor would be interested in them. One of my wife’s friends in Dumaguete has promised to send new photos but he has yet to do that. I guess I could troll the Internet looking for other folk’s photos but I won’t go that route. I hope that Cathy, J.P. & I can go home around Holy Week. I’ve been in Philippines during the Christmas season and arrived there once on Easter Sunday….but I would like to be there to experience Holy Week.

We really did test the waters at the Dumaguete website

It's not as if I don't have enough to do.Between my 3 blogs,the web site, my regular job and helping out at home I don't have a lot of spare time.Yesterday,I started doing a little experimenting with photo imaging effects.After working with a jpeg, I wanted to see how the photo looked on my 2 blogs........there are different backgrounds, after all.I didn't have anything in particular to write about.I started with the sorryalltheclevernamesaretaken blog.I entitled the entry "testing the waters".I uploaded the photo,wrote a bit of nothing. I published the entry;After seeing how the photo looked on the white background,I deleted the entry.I went over to this blog and did exactly the same thing.Later,out of curiosity,I searched the blogs for Dumaguete blogs.The sorryalltheclevernamesaretaken listing was shown correctly, but the search results showed my last entry on this blog as "testing the waters"....the deleted entry. Of course,when I clicked on the link it took me to an error message.I'm not quite sure why this one was wrong while the other blog was right.It seems to me they should both be wrong or both right-not one of each.

Dumaguete Website: Inside Baseball

Within the next few days,there will be a number of changes on the Dumaguete website.Most of these changes will probably go unnoticed the average visitor.This entry might appear to some as being "inside baseball". When I first put the site together,several of the pages were put on my ISP's free space with basically just the front page on my host's server.From a visual or content point of view,it really makes little difference on which server these secondary are located.But,I began to see some of these pages come up on a few search engines and the thought occurred to me that it would be better if all the pages were on the main server.This idea was confirmed by an email from Corey.I'll also make a few changes in the content while I'm transferring all this.I started working on the Hotels & Resorts page yesterday and the work involved is more than I anticipated....especially since I'm tending to my 1 year old while I work.

Happy 2007 from the Dumaguete website

We want to wish a Happy New Year to the hundreds of people who have visited the website and blogs in the past few months.We hope everyone from Arizona to Uzbekistan....from Cebu to Cincinnati have a glorious and fulfilling 2007.May God's blessing come to each one of you.We know that some who come to our website who are away from their loved ones.We truly wish that these people can be re-united soon.To all of you we say pag ayo ayo and we hope you will continue to stop by.