Life on the Road >> Web Pages

For well over ten years, our website has been providing information about our travels, photography, and life on the road, and along the way, this site has grown and evolved right along with the Internet, World Wide Web, and other online technology.

We’ve developed a lot of information, based upon experience, on how to develop and design your website web pages, as well as how to validate, optimize, and prepare them to be friendly to search engines. We also recommend you check out our information on WordPress, the “behind-the-scenes” program we are using to present these web pages much more efficiently than before.

We also have articles and information on the Internet and computers such as the basics of using the Internet, maximizing your Internet searches, using Outlook Express and Outlook, hoaxes, spyware, and viruses, and more in our Internet Tips and Techniques and Computer Tips and Techniques.

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Stock Photography on Your Website Can Do More Harm Than Good

Stuntdubl Business Search Marketing Consulting's rant, "Stock Photography of People Sucks", speaks for a lot of us, including me, as we spot stock photography on commercial websites - or just about any website - really easily.

Stock people on a website decreases your credibility. No, I haven't done extensive studies on this, but I can spot [...]

Nikon To Put Ads on Yahoo’s Flickr

It seems that Nikon and Flicker are teaming up. According to Whatsnextblog.com, Nikon has made a deal with Flickr to advertise on their site, placing small Nikon logos "next to pictures taken with the cameras" and will have a "Nikon only photo gallery".
Online Media Daily reports that the deal between Nikon and Flickr is [...]

Nightmare Upgrade of WordPress 2

I apologize in advance for the nightmare conditions of Taking Your Camera on the Road. I'm in the middle of an upgrade from hell with the latest version of WordPress.
Every time I turn around, I'm finding more problems. If you spot any problems, errors, or odd things, please let me know so I can fix [...]

Photography Tutorial for Web Developers and Web Page Designers

Web Reference's article, "Stock Photography for Web Developers", is a interesting step-by-step explanation of how to use images on your website, but it goes much further.

This week we're going to take a brief look at a few of the photographic and design techniques necessary to create your own stock images. However, it's important to realize [...]

Using CSS to Create a Photo Gallery

I have quite a few examples in my CSS Experiments on showcasing your photographs, as a single image or in a gallery format, and I found a very simple, easy-to-understand explanation of how to use CSS to create a photo gallery from Web Reference.

With this article I hope to show you how to produce a [...]

Writing I’m Most Proud of in 2005

As a professional writer, writing on a wide variety of topics, I posted this article and list of the my favorite articles that I wrote in 2005 on my other website, Lorelle on WordPress, and I thought I'd share it here. But before I do, I wanted to say that of the writing I've done [...]

Article About Us - Accessibility Doesn’t Have to Be Boring

Eyes Apart: Living with strabismus, a blog by Lois, who suffers with Strabismus which causes one or both eyes to not point in the same direction at the same time. She has written a lovely article about this site, Taking Your Camera on the Road, highlighting the fact that producing a website that meets web [...]

From My Kitchen Tabletop to Your Computer Laptop

In a fascinating article on SCORE, veteran catalog guru, Lillian Vernon, shares her insights about the move From My Kitchen Tabletop to Your Computer Laptop, covering the history of the Lillian Vernon Corporation and catalog from a small kitchen business to a worldwide company with millions of dollars in sales online every year.

When I founded [...]