The Longest Way Home Mobile Travel Blog
These days I am using my mobile phone to do a lot emailing, and updates to my blog. If you are following my journey's in Palawan then most of it has been put together using mobile blogging.
I'll have an article on blogging through a mobile phone up soon.
If you view my web site through a mobile phone all the other pages load really quickly; except the blog page. One of the things I have noticed is that since I switched platforms to write my journals/blog is that the new one takes up a lot of bandwidth compared to the old one.
Well that's just changed. I'm trying out a new mobile blog and so far it's working out quite well. You don't have to do anything if you are browsing The Longest Way Home on a mobile phone. You'll simply see a scaled down mobile version with smaller images etc.
It's incredibly fast, and makes reading my entries a lot faster. I do recommend Opera mini if you are browsing on mobile. It does everything automatically. If you don't use Opera mini, then no problems the web site will do it all for you.
By the way if you are using a regular computer to view the site, you won't notice a difference. It just effects mobile phone readers.
If you have any feedback on this, please feel free to contact me.
In the works: Work on a new gallery has begun, and is scheduled to kick off at the end of the Great Food from the Philippines series.
It will start off with a series of high quality photographs that will be delivered to all subscribers for free. I'll also be looking for a little feedback on your favorites. In return I'll be giving away something to everyone that helps out!
I'll stop mentioning all this now, as it's a while off. But for those who subscribe to this Journal's RSS and email, these added updates are an inside look at upcoming features on the web site that others don't get to see!
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A second photograph project starting soon, the book, plus a new FAQ answered, and an award of sorts!
The response to my recently published photographs has been really positive. As I mentioned previously I've begun working on a new gallery. This has now turned into a second photo project, and one I can do as I travel without access to the internet.
It's a while off from getting to the next level, but it's already begun and it should really bring something special to the web site. I'll write more about this as it develops. As it stands I'll probably start it once the Great Food from Around the World: The Philippines series concludes.
The Book: One of the biggest accomplishments I've achieved in the past year is completing my book. It's currently doing the rounds with a group of literary agents. I am looking for someone who I can work together with on this project and not just dump it on, or visa versa.
Some good news is that someone in the publishing business has offered to do a professional edit on the MS for me at no cost. I'm really pleased with this, and very grateful!
The FAQ: I've been getting a lot of emails about me (strangely enough). I've addressed the 'me' question in a new answer in the About page.
Awards: I was recently sent a mail telling me I've won a "Lovely Blog Award". From what I can tell it's a pass it along to a blog you like type award. Whether it's just a random thing or not, I don't know. But if someone felt that this web site deserved the time to be sent one, then thank you!
I am not online 24/7, in fact these days it's more like 7 days in a month I can connect. My priority in life is to find a home. This web site was created as part of that. I don't have the time nor the financial resources to invest in every social media outlet out there to promote the web site as perhaps I should.
I really do appreciate it when people send me a mail or comment letting me know if The Longest Way Home has been nominated, awarded, stumbled or linked to. It's very much appreciated and I do honestly wish to thank everyone for their help and support.
Someone recently asked me in person - "Why bother with a web site?" My answer is as ever: It's for a Dream to come true, it's for Me to write on, hang photographs, tell real life stories about people around the world, and; it's here to help Others traveling or dreaming of a similar ideal.
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Photo-Gallery Poll results!
The poll I had on my travel photo gallery page asking if you would like to see individual gallerys per country, or just my favorites is now closed.
The results are as follows: 82% of voters wanted to see a gallery for every country. 12% wanted more on the current one. And a remainder of 6% were happy with how it is now.
Thank you to those who voted! Here's the scoop -
Yes, I will now make inroads into creating an individual gallery per country. Unfortunately it won't happen for a while. The main reasons for this are:
(1) I don't have access to enough bandwidth / time to do this properly at the moment.
(2) For now the websites revenue does not cover what I ultimately would like to do with the gallery. However if advertising & affiliate revenue continues this will be feasible in the near future.
(3) I want to do it right. And do not want to rush out and just put up a mess of a Photo Gallery. There's plenty of rushed gallerys out there, and I don't want to add mine to the list.
The main purpose of my photography gallery is quite simply a place to hang my personal favorite photographs from my journey. While many people have a living room to do this, I don't. And that's why I created it.
With this in mind, I'm looking forward to the opportunity to expanding it for everyone to enjoy. Almost like having an open house gallery.
In the meantime, I am putting together a little of both!
I just spent an evening working on something new for the photography section. And, it's working out quite well. It's going to be a little project and will take some time. But hopefully it's going to provide some great new options.
For now , I've uploaded new photographs from the Philippines to the Gallery section. And, there's a new video there as well!
Small note: For new subscribers who are reading this entry you should know that it doesn't appear on the blog page. These entries were actually started more as a personal log on new features and additions to the website. A place I can look back and go, 'ah, I remember when I added that to the website'
Now, it's also a place where you get the inside story on extra things, like new pages, additions and upcoming things in the works. Just like the new images added to the Photography Gallery!
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