This month I plan to overhaul one of my other sites, Memphis Wallpaper. This is a site where I’ve posted images of Memphis for you to download and use as your desktop background. Unfortunately I haven’t added any new images in about 2 years. This is partly due to the fact that I didn’t have a working digital camera for much of 2005, and when I did get a new camera, I simply found it too much trouble to post new images… I had to resize them, create database entries, update the index pages, and then FTP everything up to the server.
Well, last night I had a brilliant idea… I’m going to turn Memphis Wallpaper into a blog. The concept will still be the same – Memphis images for your desktop – but I will be publishing the site in blog format, adding a new image (and descriptive text) every few days. I’ll post some of the best of the old images, and I’ll be taking new ones with my digital camera. Due to the fact that I can add search capabilities to a blog, the images should be easier to find than they are on the existing site. And, I’m going to allow comments on the Memphis Wallpaper blog, in order to make it easier for readers to leave feedback and suggest images they want to see.
One thing I’m not going to do on the new site is post the images in different sizes. With the variety of laptops and LCD monitors on the market now, there are simply too many resolutions. So I’m going to post the images at full-size only (5 megapixels) and leave it to the user to resize if they want/need to.
A good thing is that I’ll have a lot more space once I move Memphis Wallpaper to a new server – 100 GB rather than the current 100 MB – so I’ll be able to post a virtually unlimited number of images, whereas before I had to worry about running out of space.
If you want any of the current images on Memphis Wallpaper, grab ’em now. In less than a week the site should be down with an “under construction” label, then shortly after it will reappear as a blog and I’ll begin posting new images.
I’m not done yet! I have a second lunchtime post, with lots of gossip about Downtown bars and restaurants. It should be up within the hour.