Earlier this year I was part of a class at church called Financial Peace University that got me to take a step back and look at everything I have been doing financially with my personal income and with my business.
While working on this massive website fix this week, I have found so many errors in the HTML Code and the old Drupal code from the huge number of changes over the years in Drupal versions and now stuff spread all over the place from Twitter, Facebook, and now unto the Smugmug setup.
With auditing and rebuilding the site, I have been moving all the photography back to being hosted on my servers and websites. I was pretty much shocked to see that over the past few years, I have paid Smugmug $1,747.48 for hosting my photos. In that time frame since I started up the Smugmug account in 2011, the sales have been almost non-existent. In the same time frame the still photography market for storm chasing images has been flooded by micro stock where what once sold for a lot of money is not given away for name credit.
So, now there is a secondary fire under me to get everything off of SmugMug and back on my own site before having to pay even more money for hosting that is not needed in 45 days.
Why did this go on for so long with paying for a service that I never used? Simple, I got distracted with social media and other crap.
So come 9/1/2019 if not sooner, https://weatherpaparazzi.smugmug.com will be done.
As of this morning, 7/10/2019 I have about 180 pages to recreate on this temp site, the Dot Net version and then moving everything back to the Dot Com