Hello all!
For the last few days, we have been locked out. A plugin (or several) has been devouring the resources of the site, and causing it to crash. We’re hoping that one of a large number we have deactivated was the problem but we will not know for sure, until its been running for a few days.
There have also been some nasty people trying to hack the website – if you are reading this post, all login names and passwords have been changed since you deleted the website, stop trying.
We have beefed up our security, and as well as greatly increasing the speed that the website loads. Time will tell if this is a permanent fix.
Back to work…
I am well aware that for many people, air travel is a terrifying experience at the moment, and that therefore, the idea of flying away on holiday is out of the question. I can understand this: me and my family will be traveling to South Africa in less than a month, but that is us. We intend to add a number of pages for the islands around the coast of Scotland over the next few days and weeks.
This is because even if air travel is terrifying, there is a large number of destinations within 10-15 hours drive of Calais. However, if you feel that leaving the UK is not for you at the moment, there are still a large number of destinations that can be explored. These can all be found on the “in the shadow of mankind” UK page.
Over the last two years, just in the UK, my family have seen wild beavers, boar, dolphins, seals and otters, not to mention an interesting array of birds. I have also driven into Spain and seen bears as well as chamois and a mix of other species.
In the next week, we will add to the links available, watch this space. If you read this site regularly, do consider becoming a supporter member, to help us meet our aims.
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Wonderful blog! Do you have any helpful hints for aspiring writers?
I’m planning to start my own blog soon but I’m a little lost on everything.
Would you propose starting with a free platform like WordPress or go
for a paid option? There are so many options out there that I’m totally confused ..
Any recommendations? Bless you!
It really depends what your purpose is. This does not as yet make money – given that you are going to need to pay for hosting, I would suggest WordPress to begin with. Even a so called free platform is not free, unless you are a very skilled coder, as you are going to want plugins to do anything beyond posts.
While I enjoy writing, and am fascinated my the subject, it was never my primary aim – My intention is to create a marketplace for wild travel (essentially allow more places to stay wild by my finding people to pay to visit). I hope in the long-run to have better informed and better skilled writers add far more of the articles.
I have found wordpress very usable – not to say we have not had problems like being taken off-line for a while, but the plugins are a big plus. We have live sightings maps, in theory a shop (though we dont have many listing things) a members area or two, booking software and much more.
Your first job, is to find a subject that you are fascinated by, and will be thinking constantly about good ideas of things to write. Then, try to make sure that you can get a good name for the site (I had both the .com and .co.uk but i managed to let the .co.uk lapse and someone else stole it – just to try to sell it back for silly money)
Is it only a hobby? Or are you hoping eventually to be able to do it full time?
Finally, I would suggest that it helps for it to be in some way a common good – wildlife conservation and protection, and wildlife tourism is something that pretty much everyone understands we need as a race, so even if they are not interested they will give it time.
I hope that you have an idea that will fit (any interest will find readers, but they may be less reliable otherwise)
Good luck