Originally, this site served as an online journal for Kazko, months before a forum was added. I think it's only appropriate that I use this nasty font for this post as this is the font originally used all over this site over 10 years ago. In the upcoming days (weeks really) I'll be posting some screen shots of the site over the years along with a bit of history on how things have changed.

So, here we have a journal system, which I put together over the last few weeks. There is definitely room for improvement, such as adding a search feature, and you'll probably find a few bugs too.

There are many online journals, or "blogs" as they're referred to these days, and this isn't meant to be a substitute for any of them. You'll find this doesn't have as many features, and this simplicity is by design. Traditional journals are simply paper and pen, so by that measure, this is already more complex than it needs to be.

So why yet another online journal? Kazko made me create it. Other than that, I think this has real potential. I have an account on Blogger.com and I've only made one journal entry. For me, it has been an inconvenience to go to yet another website to chronicle my thoughts. I visit this site on a daily basis, so I think I'll be more likely to actually write something. Time will tell if this convenience holds true for anyone else. Even if you do maintain an online journal elsewhere, it may be practical to maintain a sperate journal here dedicated to sugar glider antics. The people that stumble upon your journal on a journal-mega-sites may not be as appreciative, understanding, or crazy like that people that visit this site. And let's be honest, this site is all about the crazy.

There are some nifty journal features I would like to talk about. You can backdate your entries, which is what I've told Kazko he has to do with his original journal on this site, and as of this post hasn't been completed. You can enable and disable commenting for your journal entries. For privacy, there are two options. You can make an entire journal entry private. This means only you can read it. This allows someone to chronicle the life and times of their animals as a matter of private record keeping. The second privacy option is a new formatting icon, , which is a [private] tag. Anything within the beginning and ending 'private' tag becomes private to you. It's as easy as highlighting what you want to be private, and then clicking the button. Anything made private in this manner will appear with a blue background with blue text so it stands out. This only works in journal entries, not in comments. The 'private' tag was a request by Kazko with the intention of keeping things like names, phone numbers, and addresses private, without breaking continuity of thought within a journal.

So, that's it for now. I have some painting to do.

 

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