The Graphical Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) was quickly installed on the Ubuntu powered PC by download from the software repository. A Google search found many GIMP video tutorials and after a bit of practice off we go! After a week of learning the software and processing the images I’m happy to up load the files, but how? Time to learn more about WordPress and FTP.
OK, so having view more video tutorials I’m ready to up load the GIMP’ed photos. FTP not needed WordPress does it all. Fantastic! Happily re-learning FTP was not a waste of time, I’ll need it for backing up the site in case the web host’s Apache open-source servers ever die (which isn’t likely but ‘never say never’).
I’ve been expanding the mind-map of the site and been creating the site page structure using WordPress. I can’t tell you how good this piece of software is. I’ve used content management programs before but this is way better than anything else I’ve used. I’d thoroughly recommend it to anyone wanting to create a web site of this type.
Now where did I put those text files, written over the years, for just such a time. These were created using, of course, a free open-source word processor from Open Office. They’ll need quite a bit of editing before I can publish them…