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General Category => New Member Introductions => Topic started by: shelt on January 03, 2013, 09:26:22 PM
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Just a quick note to introduce myself and my Weathercat web site. I'm located in Tiburon, California, just across the Golden Gate from San Francisco. Here's my site, adapted from an older template, which was modified to include radar, webcam, and my solar system output (in place of a solar radiation gauge :) ). My weather station is a Davis Vantage Vue with WeatherlinkIP, and WeatherCat runs on a very old Mac Mini. The station has been running since 10/2009, with only one minor issue (had to perform the battery waterproofing modification).
http://www.sheltons.net/wx/index.html (http://www.sheltons.net/wx/index.html)
All the best,
Rich
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Hi Rich, and welcome to the WeatherCat forum!
It is cool to see you're using Edouard's SeaMonkey template. Not too many folks got a chance to adapt that before we all moved over here from MacWeather.
I'm glad you found us,
Steve
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Hi Rich and WeatherCat welcoming committee!! [bounce]
Just a quick note to introduce myself and my Weathercat web site. I'm located in Tiburon, California, just across the Golden Gate from San Francisco.
Welcome from the San Francisco East Bay! (http://www.canebas.org/Weather/LWC_forum/Custom_emoticons/welcome_smiley.gif)
I'm in Orinda which is just on the other side of the Caldecott Tunnel from Berkeley/Oakland.
Here's my site, adapted from an older template, which was modified to include radar, webcam, and my solar system output (in place of a solar radiation gauge :) ). My weather station is a Davis Vantage Vue with WeatherlinkIP, and WeatherCat runs on a very old Mac Mini. The station has been running since 10/2009, with only one minor issue (had to perform the battery waterproofing modification).
http://www.sheltons.net/wx/index.html (http://www.sheltons.net/wx/index.html)
Glad you found my SeaMonkey templates useful. I'm still using them on my website: http://www.canebas.org/Weather/ (http://www.canebas.org/Weather/)
Hope you are looking forward to a little rain this weekend! [rain2]
Cheers, Edouard [cheers1]
P.S. I'm much more happy about rain since the contractors are completing today the drain extension that will hopefully keep the water out of the house - for good!!
P.P.S. I hope, I hope, I hope!!!
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Thanks for the welcomes!
I know Orinda well -- I grew up very close to there. Beautiful area!
And....thanks for the Seamonkey templates. I spent some time working with them to get my site up and running. I like the numerous ways a website can be generated from WC. Very handy. I used Weather Display on a PC several years ago, and while WC has less features at the moment, it is MUCH easier and more reliable to work with! I was up and running in no time. One feature I would love to have is to have the ability to import the past few years of my Wunderground data (or, better yet, the online Weatherlink archive). I see it's on the requested features list.
Maybe one day I'll get motivated and try to write a new site from scratch! I'd like to better integrate my weather station and solar system on it. One of the issues is the lack of affordable WYSIWYG editors for the Mac -- Seamonkey isn't bad, but seems pretty buggy. The really good editors are big $$$$. We'll see...
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Welcome to the forum!
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Hi Rich and welcome from Yoxford, Uk. :)
Steve pointed me towards PageSpinner http://www.optima-system.com/pagespinner/ (http://www.optima-system.com/pagespinner/) for producing my weather web site. It's easy to use even for a beginner, has a free trial period and if you buy a licence only costs about $30.
John
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Hi Rich and WeatherCat fans, [cat]
I know Orinda well -- I grew up very close to there. Beautiful area!
Well that makes you a former neighbor! How nice! :)
And....thanks for the Seamonkey templates. I spent some time working with them to get my site up and running.
Glad you found them useful. They were really intended a raw material for folks to customize. I hope they will get a little more use for the folks who don't want to battle HTML. Unfortunately, I've really busy these days with all sort of problems so I can do much with WeatherCat right now. In particular I have one "dependent" (http://www.v8buick.com/showthread.php?250765-The-grand-adventures-of-a-trusty-quot-billy-goat-quot-Wagon!) that is taking a lot of my time until it finally gets back on the road! (http://www.canebas.org/Automotive/V8_Buick/Misc/Biquette_V8_Buick_signature.gif) (http://www.v8buick.com/showthread.php?250765-The-grand-adventures-of-a-trusty-quot-billy-goat-quot-Wagon!)
Maybe one day I'll get motivated and try to write a new site from scratch! I'd like to better integrate my weather station and solar system on it. One of the issues is the lack of affordable WYSIWYG editors for the Mac -- Seamonkey isn't bad, but seems pretty buggy. The really good editors are big $$$$. We'll see...
There is a "fork" of the SeaMonkey web page editor called Blue Griffon.
http://www.bluegriffon.org/ (http://www.bluegriffon.org/)
It looks like it might be even more buggy than SeaMonkey, but it is a lot more powerful and still has one big advantage like SeaMonkey - still 100% free!
Something to consider when you have time.
Cheers, Edouard [cheers1]
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I just read your entire thread on Biquette! What a great story!! I'm looking forward to the installed engine photos!
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Hi Rich and WeatherCat automobile enthusiasts,
I just read your entire thread on Biquette! What a great story!! I'm looking forward to the installed engine photos!
Well, the latest word is that the car being worked on ahead of my trusty wagon is getting close to finally moving on. So with any luck at all, the work will start in a 2 to 3 weeks. I'll certainly post a discreet announcement here when - finally - the work begins!!
Cheers, Edouard [cheers1]