Giving the Blog thing a go.

[Mad Aussie]

Thanks Casil.

RSS is at the bottom of the page Iggy. We use RSS on our cycling websites as news feeds. We love RSS.

Marko and Bambi ... I have no intention of changing the chronology of posts

[AcadieLibre]

Thought I had seen this earlier, but guess I did, was just there and well done. Not read much, did a scan and looks like it is well written. I don't read blogs so not like any type of expert here. I tried it, think I lasted two days and realized I had you people to bother, why disrupt the rest of the net, lol. Also don't ya'all (yes cleared my spell check) have a just .au, what is with the .com.au? Government not able to buy a proper top level name and have to get the bargain version?

[Mad Aussie]

Thank AL. The blog is aimed at people with way less experience than you of course

I'm trying to keep it simple and easy to read, structured. Every post I put in there will be in the same format. Uniformity to make it easy for people to follow.

Whether I can keep it up for a long period of time will remain to be be seen. Whether it will grow into something more complex will also remain to be seen.

We've always had .com.au ... that's just how it is. We have .org.au ... .net.au ... even the government has .gov.au

[AcadieLibre]

Thank AL. The blog is aimed at people with way less experience than you of course

I'm trying to keep it simple and easy to read, structured. Every post I put in there will be in the same format. Uniformity to make it easy for people to follow.

Whether I can keep it up for a long period of time will remain to be be seen. Whether it will grow into something more complex will also remain to be seen.

We've always had .com.au ... that's just how it is. We have .org.au ... .net.au ... even the government has .gov.au

It just is odd, because we have a top level .ca so I thought it would be .au the same. I was just surprised, not only is Australia a country but a continent, just thought you folks deserve a .au without the pre .whatever preceding it.

[Mad Aussie]

Yeh I hear ya ... but it's always been that way so we've never even thought about it.

Maybe it's because if you gather all the people in Aussie together in one city (about 20 million I think?) it would still only be as populated as the Greater New York area or Dallas/Fort Worth!

[AntZ]

How do you separate companies(.com) from organisations(.org) and government(.gov) and .net and probably more?

[AcadieLibre]

How do you separate companies(.com) from organisations(.org) and government(.gov) and .net and probably more?

Easy we have .net, .org, .tv, .ca, .com, etc. All of those are top level domains. We just add the dot whatever and register it. It is that .ca like .us is country specific and does not require a pre dot anything. I have seen it with other country specific names that do it the same .com.au but just was curious why. Ok those are second level domain names, guess the Aussie Gov doesn't want the countries peons to have top level ones. So you are aware it was a real curiosity, so I looked it up since the two Aussies here were unable to answer, like either you give a sh** ... lol ... but I find something looks or doesn't add up, I look it up.

.au - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Mad Aussie]

Actually ... the way we do it keeps the distinguishment of the site being Australian. If we just did a .org for instance a viewer wouldn't know where the site was based. Our way it's always obvious.

We can just register .com's if we want though. We often do actually. Both of my cycling sites own both .com and .com.au

[Mad Aussie]

I've added a few things into the Resources page of my blog. Like the blog itself it's aimed more at the newer photographer than the experienced photographer of course.

Anyhow there's the following in there now ...

Learning Photography with Astro Visual - a newbies guide to digital photography

Selective Sharpening – learn how I selectively sharpen elements in my photos.

Terms for Newbies – a list of commonly used terms and slang found in forums and websites to help people new to digital photography understand what people are telling them.

These might be interesting to some members/visitors

[Bambi]

I am really enjoying this Blog MA!. I have also forwarded to the photo club I belong to in case they want to explore.

nice work!