Breathing the Dhamma Yatra Website

Again, it's the crazy part of me that made me volunteer for this job of developing this website.  It's more like the chance slammed into me, and I couldn't say no.  But I was glad I did it because I learned tremendously from toiling over it over the past few days.

For this website, I was lucky to be given a whole bunch of media files, and the free blog host that I use (wordpress.org) doesn't support that much data storage, without me paying extra.  So I need to cleverly use whatever places I could find to store them.  Here are the resources I've used for this job:

1. Free audio editor: Audacity
2. Free video editor/converter: Any Video Converter
3. Web template: http://wordpress.com/   Really cool and offering wide selections of templates to choose from.  But at the end of the day, to get the look I wanted, I needed to edit the HTML codes anyway.  Anyhow, it's so much fun to learn from http://www.w3schools.com/.  Nice interactive examples that let me make changes and see the results.
4. Storing audio files: http://www.archive.org/
5. Storing video clips (of course, what else?): http://www.youtube.com/  Really nice embedding and uploading tools.  The software is so smart that it can detect an Enya song that was used in the background.  Because the song was copyrighted, YouTube muted it and let me pick another soundtrack and dubbed over it online. 
6. Storing photos: http://picasa.google.com/ 

Well, I've already spent too much time in front of the computer poring over perhaps thousands of photos to select what I wanted to put on the web.  I'm going to stay away from it for a day or two.  My new notebook computer has already worked for what it's worth...