Joella, Service Dog

Dogs and Fireworks DO NOT MIX!

Here are just a few of the sites (that I found on a Google Search) that have decent articles about this situation:

• Hobo’s Advice Column
• Guidedogs.org.uk article
• BellaOnline article
• BillFoundation.org article

And you can bet that when we leave for the fireworks, Joella will be at home. We will fix the kitchen so that they can come in if they need to, and we will be blasting a radio.

As far as I can tell, the majority of Joella’s website is finished. Phew!

This site design is made with WordPress. While a blogging program, it is also an excellent ‘content maintenance’ program. The benefits to using WP are:

1. Each page/post will look the same
2. Links to other sections of the website will be on each page/post
3. Any changes will automatically be site wide
4. and, later, pages and posts will have a ‘comment’ option.

To the right is a column called a ‘sidebar’. This is where the links to the site are located. It is also where I will later put ‘recent comments’ and ‘recent updates’. You can then see at a glance which pages have been updated and who has commented where.

Comments are similar to a guest book, but better. They are more flexible for both the commenter and the reader. The best part is that you can share your opinion or thought right where it should be: on that page!

However, as with the internet, there are spammers. There are even comment spammers. For the moment, the comment option is unavailable. Later I will reinstate them, after the spam robots go elsewhere. An excellent example is down in the footer (the bottom of each page). See the ‘Spam Karma 2’ line? Those numbers reflect the comment counts. The first are those that were never allowed to see the light of day, the second were those that were questionable so were held in ‘moderation’ and the last are those that were allowed to be viewed. That number currently shows the count for the test comments I have made.

Joella’s website is undergoing some renovation. The fourth in a series, her site will join the others that use WordPress as its platform.

Jo and I appreciate your patience in this matter.

I decided to do some major renovation of my sites because there was a little bit here, a little bit there, and very little where it should be.

HolyRoller.org is now both the Personal Me and the Crip Me.

The Writer Me can be found at PaulaOffutt.com.

The Writer/Pontificating Me is at the blog, Thought Patterns.

Soon, Joella will be almost entirely Just Joella. All the Service Dog stuff will be moved to ServiceDawgs.org.