Hello again!

It’s been some time since I wrote last, but we’ve been busy – primarily with the jv based on Green Home MegaStore dot com. We have put up a number of new sites – mostly WP blogs – and have updated some of them to the newest version, WP 2.8.1. But we’ve had some compatibility problems with the 2.8 and 2.8.1 versions – actually, with the plugins that are not keeping up with WP’s progress for the most part. We are finding 2.8 is easier to use than 2.7 and lower, but 2.8.1 has some stability problems in terms of the view when we are composing posts and pages – it fluctuates on the page and you don’t always see the area where the cursor is.

Green Home MegaStore and our newest, I Don’t Want To Get Old, were off-line for about two days before we found the “villian” – a plugin that doesn’t work on 2.8 and above (at least not yet). They are back now, but it’s still a little rocky – sometimes we have problems getting the sites to come up on a browser. We’re looking at what we can do and what we have to leave out to make the sites fully functional.

Also, on Green Home MegaStore, we have installed five (yes – 5) online stores of various types. Some are completely for electronic products (that you can download), while others are for “hard goods”. Two of them are international – Canada and the UK – and more of these are on the way.

Other sites that are new are:

Practical Greenology
Go Green – Save Green
Aromatherapy
Zumba!

There are a few more in the wings, but the operating sites tend to take priority – particularly when they’re not functioning properly!

Ciao for now!

Craig

Jimmy Craig Websites

Hi there,

We are pleased to announce (a little pre-maturely) that we have made a joint venture with Sue Fleckenstein of Ontario, Canada, to put together a series of websites and asociated goodies to make a commercial website called Green Home MegaStore, which you can find at http://GreenHomeMegaStore.com. Our joint venture effort is named Sue & Craig Websites – tricky, huh? (rev. 2009.02.18)

The main site will be the hub for a series of sites covering alternative energy, energy use efficiencies, gardening and associated activities, home cleansing in the form of purifiers of various types, automotive fuel efficiency practices, personal health and well-being, and other similar items. We currently have about 40% of the various websites on line in one form or another. The entire project is (obviously) not yet complete, and may continue to be a “work-in-progress” for years as we continue to discover new articles and practices that deserve your attention.

Technically, at this point, the hub site is a conventional hand-written html site with links off to the other websites. The hub site is a WordPress blog based on a very nice theme from Function Design & Development Studio, wefunction.com, on a basis that fits our purposes very well. (rev. 2009.02.18)  The other sites range from a brand new WordPress blog to static and dynamic AdSense-optimised php sites and html sites. At the moment, everything is a little helter-skelter as we are still getting our sites organised. We also envision that the entire site will become a membership site when it approaches “maturity.” For the moment, it is a free site with free membership required to comment on the blog.

We would like to invite you to visit the site(s) and put them on your favorites list.

That’s about all for now,

Craig Hesser
Jimmy Craig Websites