As the Earth Spins 'round.

In my never ending attempt to improve my assorted web pages, I've managed to learn a little trick using GIMP.
From time to time, I've fooled around with little satirical news reports - attributed to Internet News Network (I.N.N.) and subsequently posted onto dumaguetecity.net. One such example is my Nashville Woman Injured In Cop versus Donut Truck Chase web page.

Up to this point, I had been using an image of a globe as the I.N.N. logo. The original is seen below.

Fooling around with GIMP today, I've figured out how to turn the original logo into a spinning globe, and create two globe logos spinning in opposite directions. Those two globes are below.

The new logos have already made their way onto the page linked to above. As I write this, I haven't yet put the new I.N.N. logos on all the I.N.N. pages.That's work for another day.

Dumaguete Website on Google Plus.

I received an email from one of the companies with which the website s an affiliate. - Hotwire.com.

The email was to inform me that Hotwire would soon disconnect their affilation with Linkshare and if I wanted to stay with Hotwire, I'd need to sign with another program. I attempted to do just that, but the company working with Hotwire (impactradius) would not accept my application.

I sent an email to the Hotwire rep, letting her know about my correspondence with impactradius and my decision to remove all Hotwire ads from my website, not waiting until the official transfer date. Removing all their ads was no picnic, but it's done.

On another note, I've one of my Google email accounts to set up "Dumaguete City" on Google+, which I'll be using to upload photos and promote this blog - which in turn, is being used to promote my website.

The link to the Google+ account can be found here.

Further Modifications.

Yesterday, I began to make changes to the Dumaguete Website following some of the suggestions from Google Webmaster Tools.

After a bit of trial and error, I was able to alter the index page to suit viewers using Androids. I wasn't completely happy with the page as seen from a desktop PC, but I was willing to compromise one for the other.

A problem arose when I looked at the site using Google Chrome, rather than Firefox. The Home page was a disaster.


I had to go back again, and try to make changes that would work on both browsers.

Some of the web pages will be more difficult modifying for viewing on mobiles; particular the pen pal websites. It's recommend that the buttons on a webpage should be large enough to accommodate fingers on a mobile phone screen. That was easy enough on a page with relatively few buttons, but the pen pal page, as it's designed, has 35 buttons.

I'll have to give serious thought to how I'll set up the new page.

Modifications on the Dumaguete Website.

This morning I received an email from Google Webmaster Tools informing me that -

"Google systems have tested 61 pages from your site and found that 100% of them have critical mobile usability errors. The errors on these 61 pages severely affect how mobile users are able to experience your website. These pages will not be seen as mobile-friendly by Google Search, and will therefore be displayed and ranked appropriately for smartphone users."

I inspected the mobile issues and I've corrected some, but there are too many (according to Google) for me to fix all the errors right away.

I'm not even certain that I can fix them all.

At any rate, I've resized the buttons on index page, re-centered the page, and compressed a few images. That has helped some of their "desktop issues", but not all the mobile ones.

I'll have to work on this a bit at a time.