I’d decided iWeb was the way to go when it came to creating the site, and it integrated nicely with the rest of the standard Apple suite of apps but it didn’t give you much room to tweak things, and the easiest solution to a cluttered navigation bar at the top of the page was to hive off some ontent into a whole new site with a separate navigation bar. Link to the new bit from the original site, and there you are chewing the fat with your long-lost Uncle Robert.
Those spin-offs have, over the years, morphed into the next five sections of the present website, with The LHoc Bookshelves housing the discussion of reading matter, The LHoc Hits the Road aggregating the various travelogues, The LHoc Music removing a fair chunk of what used to be located in Hughesy’s Office, The LHoc Sports Desk taking the cricket-related rants out of the Living Room and The LHoc Wine Rack accommodating the extensive discussion of bottles and the places where they originate.
Still, there’s some content that stayed where it was under the original scheme of things.
The Living Room: Visitors to the Little House of Concrete are likely to find themselves seated around the table, probably with a glass of wine in hand, more than likely watching something from the DVD collection, if the conversation has turned away from films, television, current events or the state of the world in general.
The Kitchen: Some favourite recipes, plus discussion of issues relating to food...
Hughesy’s Office is where I spend most of my waking hours. Since it houses the computer, my personal library and a substantial part of the CD/DVD collection, plus a comfortable armchair for reading and reflection, so this was where early content relating to computers, reading and music was stashed. Nowadays we have separate sites for Music and Books...
The Garden: From the time I moved into the Little House of Concrete we’ve gradually filled up the block with garden beds and other landscaping. Now tthe process is finished and only needs ongoing maintenance and a touch of fine tuning, here’s how it happened.
The Courtyard: Our faux-rain-forest courtyard is an underused spot to relax and let your thoughts wander, so it’s an area ideally suited to developing fiction and telling yarns.
The travelogue content fell into three fairly clear subsets:
Our Big Back Yard: Heading outwards from the Little House of Concrete, we’re talking about things that happen here in Bowen, and around the rest of northern Queensland.
Further Afield: We try to get away occasionally. Here’s what has happened when we’ve succeeded.
Over the Horizon: And, occasionally, we go a little further. Japan, for example...
