Well earlier this year somebody commented that the club could desperately do with a website as they didn’t have one.

Some berk (i.e. me) piped up that he could do that and was promptly given the job.

I bought some web-hosting and a domain-name for them and started thinking about what I wanted on the website.

Now this site uses WordPress, as do a couple of other sites of mine.  However I had a look around at the website of some other local camera clubs and  thought I would give Joomla 1.5 a go instead as it seemed more suited for the sort of website I had planned.

I used Fantastico to install Joomla in the webspace and tried to convert the demo website that it installed into a camera club website.  I could not get my head around how to create a page with a Flickr gallery on it and was getting lots of 404 errors (probaly because I got rid of too much of the demo website), so I gave up and installed WordPress instead.

So, the Locksheath & Sarisbury Camera Club website is up and registered with the search engines and google analytics and it is getting a trickle of visitors. Hopefully after the search engines have crawled it a few times it will start appearing in the search result.

Somebody suggested the club having a Flickr group, so I have set up the lhscc group and put a slideshow on the website of the groups photos. Ok, at the moment the slideshow is rather brief – two photos, both mine – but Rome wasn’t built in a day.

Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible.

Update 9 March

Install theme – DONE

reinstall plugins – DONE

install widgets in theme – ONGOING

upload the uploads from the old site – DONE

reinstate posts from old site – DONE

reinstate pages from old site – DONE

activate sitemap generation – when posts and pages reinstated – DONE

activate backups – when posts and pages reinstated – DONE

In the words of Douglas Adams

We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can’t cope with is therefore your own problem.

The other day the UPS powering the firewall pc between my home office and my router died.  “Ok, that’s forced my hand” I thought. “I was planning to get rid of that firewall pc sometime as it was slowing down my internet access anyway, now is as good a time as any”.  The thing is that now my printer and PCs have all changed their IP address, and the scanner in the printer is not happy about it.

Oh I can print ok, but whenever I try to scan a document from my XP box it complains that it can’t find the scanner.

Hmm, ok, delete the scanner in XP and recreate it I thought.

WRONG – no option to create a new scanner.  Hmm, uninstall the HP software and reinstall it.  Now where did I put the installation CD?

No problem, I’ll download it from the HP website.  Will it install? No of course it bl**dy won’t.  There are various comments on the forum about ‘delete all these files that the uninstaller misses’ – tried that, still won’t install.  Then I spot a comment that the latest driver on the HP website is broken and missing some files and that you need the original installation CD.

I find the installation CD.  It wont install, delete the files that files that should have been deleted from the previous attempts at installing.  It installs – hooray.

Try to scan a document – the PC refuses, says that it can’t talk to the scanner.\

Download latest firmware for the printer and install it.  Still no dice.

I wonder, can I scan from Linux? A quick google confirms that yes the HPLIP software can do it.

Install the necessary packages on my linux box (I already have HPLIP installed for the printing).

Sane says it can’t find a scanner. Run the HPLIP GUI, tell it to find new device, it does, I now have options to print, copy, scan and fax. cool.

Go into sane and scan a document, just like that.

Why does Windows have to be so hard and so slow?

This one looks genuine though.

Good on the two Drews for what they are doing.