Buttons in the Dumaguete website

The dumaguetecity.net website is a work in progress;I suppose it always will be.As anyone who's been to the site can see,I've not had any formal training in web design and I'm learning as I go.With a limited budget and practically no web design tools,I've had to get by with what I can get free of the Internet.I've not been satisfied with the links in the index page......the photos with the font beneath.I've wanted to have "buttons" instead but had no idea how to create them.I've assumed they were images and keep looking for some way to do it that way.Today,I finally found a tutorial site that explained how it's done.I've put the new buttons on the index page,but as of this writing, I've haven't made the same changes to any of the other pages.
The buttons on that page work OK and I think I can reproduce one here. We'll see.

Street Map on the Dumaguete website

I received a email today from someone looking for a street map of Dumaguete.I wrote about this on another blog. Rather than go into the details, I'll just put a link to that post here.
I found out that others have been looking for a similar map, so I felt I should put a link to the map on the website and in 2 blogs.

Pen pals on the Dumaguete website

Finally,after a seemingly endless wait,there are a few pen pal profiles on the website.I'm hoping that now that the ball is rolling, we'll have more before too much longer. I have someone in Dumaguete who'll try and help me on this.I know from my analytics that the old page was getting hits.Now,if the ladies who are profiled there get a lot of responses then "word of mouth" should be a big help in adding profiles,as well.The few listings I have,so far, are from young ladies who do not use email to any great extent. They can be contacted via "snail mail" which may be frustrating to some of the men out there, but in the long run I think it could lead to better relationships.
There's still a lot of work that needs to be done on the entire web site and not just the pen pal section.Hopefully, we can see changes in the site coming every day.

Holy Week in Dumaguete

My wife, Cathy, my son, J.P. and I arrived in Dumaguete as planned on the Monday after Palm Sunday.It will be difficult doing everything I want to do during Holy Week, so most of my blogging will be on another blog. We plan on getting lots of photos, and try to work on the pen pal site as well.I hope everyone has a happy and blessed week.