Why this site is created

 

Why this site is created [August 2020, Maryland]

            I created a blog and have it running well since more than ten years ago.  It has been idle for the last few years.  I have just finished a new article to reactivate my blog.  It is logical to add it to the existing blog rather than creating a new site.  The reason for this decision is rather embarrassing.

Back about six years ago, I was actively maintaining and updating my own blog, ayfok.blogspot.com.  And at the same time, per my high school classmates’ request, I also developed a new blog for the Ling Ying 1953 class.  The group had been supported by four classmates from four major regions, East U.S., West U.S., Canada and Hong Kong.  Since there were four of us from different territories, it was suggested that any one of the four could update the webpage when they collected enough materials within their regions.  Since I was the one developing the webpage, I wrote a step-by-step procedure how to update the website.

During the last six years, I have been busy publishing two books.  So there has been no activity on my part working on the webpages.  Now six years later, being stimulated by another classmate, it rebuilds my interest to reactive my own blog.

So I started by writing an article as the intended new article for my blog.  The article was reflecting my current mood being an older person.  It started as a short essay.  As soon as I started, I could not stop and it ended up an article almost thirty page long.  Here comes the embarrassing part.

With my step-by-step procedure I prepared six years ago, I opened my own webpage.  Then came the surprises - the blog format was different than six years ago, and my step-by-step procedure did not apply at all.  It was obvious that Google has revised/updated the site format during the last six years, and my procedure became obsolete.  Now I had to learn from scratch how to add the new article to the site.

Now it is the decision time.  I can try to learn how to add a new article to my existing blog.  By doing that, the results could be two folds.  I could have my new article added to the existing blog and ran well, or I could mess it up and getting nowhere.  That meant that the existing blog with over fifty articles would not run anymore.  How much work and how long it would take me to correct it was anybody’s guess.

The other option was to leave the existing blog alone and develop a new blog with just my only new article.  That sounded like a better choice with the new article published while the existing blog remained intact.  Later on when I finally figure out how to update the site, I can combine both blogs together becoming one bigger site.

That was how I decided it and that was why a new baby was born.  In the new blog, ayfok2.blogspot.com, it started with only one article.  Because of the length, I have divided the article into three shorter parts.  That gives the reader the chances not to be bored to death should the article is not so interest to him/her.  The options are yours.

Furthermore, the format is not important, and contents are.

Enjoy it.

[August 17, 2020]