Seize the storm

I have done a lot of work on the website of late for a number of reasons:

1. To keep me busy
2. To appease the readers
3. To increase the quality of the website

Photography Sales – The most important change was the addition of the Photography Sales section.   I’ve done my best to present the most customer-friendly source of revenue for the website and chasing.   I realize it still needs some more work on the front end but this will have to wait for now.   At least now you can purchase, buy,  or otherwise  aquire  any picture, photo, print on the website.   I’m an amateur photographer at this point but I think I have some really beautiful pictures that someone might like hanging on their wall.   I’m working to get pictures not just of storms and clouds but landscape, scenery, seasonal (summer, fall, winter, spring), and any other kind of photography.   I will use the Photography category to publicize those pictures.   The chasing stuff will remain under the chase logs but by all means, those are available for purchase as well.   Note: All of the sales and transaction of money is done through Paypal because security is a big concern of mine.

Weather Station – The next change I did was updated the weather section on the top right.   The old one wasn’t getting updated very often thus making my website look out of date.   This one does a bit better and is under active development for improvements.

Subscriptions – Another important change on the website is the ability to subscribe to new posts.   There’s more information in the Subscribe Here page about that.   Basically if you’re interested only in my photography posts, you can subscribe only to that topic and be notified automatically of new posts in the photography category.   Just another way I’m trying to deliver what you want from my website to you as fast as possible.

Bandwidth – Already this month, I’ve used almost 40% of my bandwidth.   It’s good that the website is so popular, but just today I reduced the number of posts that are visible on the front page to three posts.   This should help save on bandwidth dramatically.   The next step would be to remove all title photos from posts.   After that – eek, hopefully it won’t come to that.

Things to come:

T-shirts – I have some really good ideas for t-shirts and have some of the designs on paper.   This will keep me occupied over the long winter months of no storms.   More than likely, this will be something done through CafePress.

Polos – You may have seen me wearing the Carpe Tempestas polo in the pictures of my Sept. 16 chase.   I will be getting price lists up for these as well.   These will be done locally – here in Brookings, SD.

———     NEW: I did get T-shirts, hoodies, and polos put on the website, click here for the details. ———

Uncluttering – I may have to reformat the website and make some of the Pages into posts just to save some room.   If it ends up being too cluttered with the new additions, then I’ll look into this.