HAPPY 4TH OF JULY ! (2015)

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY ! (Fireworks Enclosed)

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY !

Just wanted to wish everyone a very happy and safe 4th of July. These fireworks are for those people (like me) who are shut in and couldn't get out w friends today.

Here's wishing you happiness, prosperity, and luck, this year and the next.

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Reviews

[Marie]

These are certainly beautiful. I didn't get to see fireworks this year, and I wish I'd seen this post sooner, but it seems I run into your work only by accident these days.

[dw817]

Well accident is better than naught, Marie. I know there were a few bits in there with some people yelling. Who knows, maybe I would do the same if I were there. :) Glad you liked 'em.

And - nice to know I wasn't the only who missed seeing them proper outside.

[Sue]

Though I'm very late, thank you!

[dw817]

NP Sue. Half the fun was sorting through the fireworks and finding the ones that had the least drunken yelling people in it. :) Hope your 4th was wonderful ...

[Sue]

haha :) Thank you, it was. I hope you had a wonderful Fourth too!

[dw817]

Rose came to visit. I showed her these fireworks on the big screen. She agreed that we never have anything this lush or lavish here in downtown Fort Worth.

I actually wrote a fireworks program a year back. My problem is I'm not accounting for the varying resolutions everyone has. From wide-screen to tall-screen of cellphones, all my coding is geared for 1024x768 pixels, which as you know today is old school.

I'll have to get with the times when I write a new program so it'll work in any resolution it is set.

[Sue]

I'm sure it was still a beautiful display!

[dw817]

Yep. It is. Looks like I'll be needing to write it in B4GL as well since GFA is not compatible with Windows 8.1. *SIGH* Always something to slow me down. :)

[Sue]

Yes :) Does the work ever end?

[dw817]

I don't think of programming as work, more of a hobby really. A few years back I wrote business software for companies. I'm pretty good at writing databases. And - well - I worked myself out of a few jobs that way.

My Dad told me to not be too efficient at jobs and I guess I was.

Barrier, my novel, however. I don't know. I really work on those chapters every day, even editing the older ones for higher clarity and descriptiveness.

I've got it planned out to 4-books. I know it's a crazy story. Outside of S2 tho I guess that will be my legacy. :) I can't ask for more than that, Sue.

[Sue]

The same way you feel about programming is how I feel about writing. And the same way you feel about writing is how I feel about writing!

Coming up with new ideas that I can write is somewhat of a hobby for me and still fun. But putting everything together, like mixing a song, or proof-reading my poetry and stories is like work (I have like, 100 writings in the making that I need to put together or proof read and re-edit)!

Do you program professionally anymore?

[dw817]

Not anymore. Usually just for fun. I even wrote software for my Dad to check validity scales on the FIRO-B,
http://bit.ly/1MGrQYZ

The last program I wrote in GFA created this page HERE,
http://bit.ly/1uH07Cw

I just needed to enter in the values for the image icon, the URL address, and the description. Unfortunately it is written in GFA and since I'm running Windows 8.1, I'll have to rewrite it in a different programming language now if I plan to make any updates to it.

I've helped a few people in Writer's Cafe by writing a type of fixer-upper in GFA, it takes someone's chapter or story and indents it based on length and content.

I wrote a program in BlitzMAX that created this page for me,
http://bit.ly/1KjpsHp

Used a similar program I wrote to create this for DeviantART,
http://bit.ly/1fk7HNb

If you're curious, here is what I am referring to when I mention S2
http://bit.ly/1MGqHAt

BTW, I noticed that your Avatar (the little picture you see accompanied with messages) is blank. You can change that HERE,
http://bit.ly/1ef6mGu

Go down to where it says PHOTO, click BROWSE, then upload a 100x75 picture to represent YOU. If this seems like a bit of work, I can do it for you if you like, just let me know what kind of image you want.

If you want to do some pretty cool and advanced stuff in Writer's Cafe, I made a classroom for teaching it HERE,
http://bit.ly/1dOSAYq

I started writing and selling software when I was 10-years old - so I've got a bit of a background in programming today, Sue. :)

[Sue]

Since you were 10 years old???? Wow, that's seriously amazing! I didn't even know anything but computer games at 10 :)

Thank you for showing me how to change my avi. I had no idea. You don't have to change it for me, but thanks for asking. The sites you worked on are really great and now that I know you've been doing it since 10, I see why everything is so polished. Maybe you can help me add a social media button on my site, but first... I need more money :)

[dw817]

You don't need money to build websites, Sue. That's one reason I'm here. Hmm ... Best way to describe this, I'm retired young and I see a doctor every week. Sort of an out-patient management.

While I have enough money to pay for everything, I don't have to handle any of it - and I just get an allowance every week as if I'm a kid. That in itself makes it difficult for me to make big purchases.

If there is something I feel I need, I have to contact the main company that is handling my finances and they weigh and decide if it's something I need rather more than just want. So far they've been very liberal and green lighted many fancy purchases.

I'll certainly be glad to help you with your site, but I tell you now, if you are having to pay money on a website just to carry your writing, IMHO that is ripping you off. Writer's Cafe never had such restrictions.

Sure, you can go premium on here and advertise your works professionally if you like. You can even do what is called vanity publishing and for a fee get your writing or novel published into a real book, notwithstanding how good or bad it is.

But what does that say about the writer ? If you are accepted and appreciated in a free website, that is the best and highest praise you can ever receive. No-one should ever have to pay money just to be appreciated - please consider.

Also, you mentioned you have like 100 writings in the making ? I would be very certain to copy those to Notepad or Wordpad and back them up.

Any internet site can go down and there is no guarantee it will ever return. I've seen that happen to 3 sites where I posted my initial work. They went down and never returned, nor did they make acceptable remunerations to those people who did pay them for premium access.

[Sue]

I see your point, but my web site is more for me and other people, sort of like this site. It's just to help with additional promotion. But I see your point. If it was just my work, I'd definitely just place my work on sites like this.

I also have to hire someone to build a web site for me or pay for a site. I literally have no idea how to do anything. I pay for my site through Dream Host/Word press and I had to watch You Tube videos just to figure out how to build my site :)

I agree with you about saving work as well. I have my work written down in my notebooks here at my house, as well as Microsoft Word. But, you never know what accidents can happen so I always send my work to my email address just to be safe!

[dw817]

With that much dedication, I think I'll visit you at your premium site, if just for a bit. :7 Minju, you are still more than welcome to make your home here at no cost and I'll certainly be more than happy to help you with web design as can be done here, Sue.

[Sue]

Thank you. I appreciate that :)

[dw817]

I'm back ... one thing I'm seeing is you don't have an option for visitors to leave feedback, and I suspect you don't have a webpage counter to tally those browsing your site.

To my knowledge, writers and poets want nothing more if only to have critical feedback and acknowledgment for their good works. While others can read your stories and poems on it-trigued, to my knowledge there is no way of you knowing who has visited.

I, too, have an account in Wordpress and while I have learned a great many things there, I was not at all impressed with the lack of support and inability to mold a page to my liking outside of being a paying member.

In Writer's Cafe, you can free of charge add Youtube movies, Google Drive videos, streaming music including Internet radio channels, have an infinite number of images for any post (really !), and the ability of backing up your pages including all HTML commands and codes including the ability to change font, size, color, and Inline code, Embed code, Flash merge code, and Stream.

[Sue]

I honestly thought about adding a comments page, but it's more of a store with things for sale (though free work can also be promoted on my site). As of right now, I'm pretty much on the fence about adding a comment or a forum section. Maybe just for the writers because feedback is always welcomed in the writing community, but I'd have to think about it.

I will post all of my work on my website and this web site, but I can't post other artist work to this site without their consent.

The lack of support with Word Press was always the hardest part for me. I have a hard time getting attention to the question I have asked in the support forum. I think they should get email support or phone support, but other than that, everything worked out pretty good.

Thank you for visiting my site and for your advice. You've given me some things to reflect on.

[dw817]

Glad to help. If you do have a question regarding Wordpress, just PM me, I'll be glad to answer as best I can.

[Sue]

Sorry for the late response and thank you. I'll contact you if I need any help!

[dw817]

Take care ...