Iowa Deer Blog

I've been traveling a lot lately, both for work and pleasure. Right now my family and I are out in Frisco, Colorado. The mountains never cease to awe me with their granduer and beauty. It's been snowing up here a lot lately which has made this trip that much more fun - powder makes for great skiing. A lot of you probably don't know that I love to ski. I grew up in Michigan for several years as a kid right next to a ski hill and I got hooked then. It's amazing when you learn something as a kid because you never forget. It's much harder to ski aggressively now than it was when I was 17, but I still try. This trip has been tough - me and my two oldest boys have strep and we all had to get on antibiotics. My oldest son wanted to ski yesterday and I could barely get him down the mountain. One run and done. Oh well, it still beats a day at the office!

As far as the site goes there has been many more changes. One of the big changes was syndicating YouTube videos in the Iowa Deer Gallery. We now can pick up any video from YouTube right here in our own gallery. Someday I hope to have it so you can upload to YouTube too any video you want to share and it will get posted right to the gallery.

The site keeps getting busier and busier and that is due to the new changes and the great core group of guys on here that are IowaDeer.com. I can't wait for the shed hunt. It's been far to long since I have caught up with most of you. Well gotta go now. Hope all is well with you and yours.

Brian

The site continues to evolve into something bigger and better than it has ever been. The Iowa Deer Gallery is now up and several beta testers are uploading videos as I type. And all of this is fed in a live stream to the homepage. The vision of a live homepage is now a reality. With the addition of the live posts from the Iowa Deer Forum and the most recent photos from the Iowa Deer Gallery the homepage has a life of it's own! IowaDeer.com continues to evolve. Please stop back by to witness the continuing metamorphosis of IowaDeer.com into one of the world's best online hunting websites.

It's been far too long since we updated the homepage and thanks to Adam Oswald (aka adamo on the forum) we now have a beautiful new homepage. The new homepage includes a live feed of the 5 most recent posts to the Current News section on the Iowa Deer Forum. We are very excited to have this new homepage for IowaDeer.com and welcome any feedback you might have.

Our next step in the site redesign includes a photo gallery for Iowa Deer Fieldstaff members. Each FSM that wants their own Gallery will be setup with their own album where they can upload, edit, and share photos with other Iowa Deer members, family and friends. Please check back for additional site improvements that are in the making. There is a lot more to come for Iowa Deer.com and 2008 it is going to be an exciting year around here!

Welcome to the Iowa Deer Hunting Journal site. If you are new on here please take time to visit our other member journals by clicking on the links in the Blog title bar (red image) above. We have several Field Staff Members who have been posting to their journals and there is already a lot of great information contained in this journal area. Thanks for visiting the Iowa Deer Journal site!

Brian

aka

DeerHunter

Well the blog beta site blew up last night. Not sure why, but something screwy is going on with the database on the server. It's not isolated to just our journal site. Crazy. I hope to get it sorted out soon. In the meantime feel free to blog away. If it goes down again it only takes me about 2 minutes to bring it back up.

As far as the forum goes, I increased the file size limit for attachments up to 150KB. We had some discussion in the field staff forum about the need for a file size limit and I determined that it was worth increasing the attachement size limit. I may go a little further if I get enough feedback from the Field Staff.

I did some work on the photo gallery last night. I am still not happy with the gallery and it needs a lot more work. We need to determine if a gallery is that important to us or not. I have my doubts sometimes.