David Beckwith's blog

Horrid rainy day today, so I have been working on EAG.  I believe that I have now overcome the difficulties I have been having uploading images and files, followed by lots of ensuing site housekeeping.  No excuse for not producing some content now - unless the summer weather is good!

The Article on Hex has been expanded, but more to do . . .

Life suddenly became busy, so I've not looked at EAG for a couple of weeks.  I've been doing lots of garden chores and succeeded in hurting my back!  I have also ordered a new computer for online game playing - my old one was not designed for the task but the new one is!

Emails . . . 

• On returning to EAG, I noticed that my email address on the Contact page had been overwritten by a miscellaneous picture - sorry.  This happened because of a bug / lack of understanding of how Drupal manages its images.  Hopefully all will be well from now on.
• I have had a few requests for an account from what appears to be computer generated fictitious email addresses.  I am ignoring these.  If I have not responded to a real request for an account then please use the Contact page to email me directly.

The May weather has been awful, so good progress is being made and EAG is beginning to take shape.  Up until now, content on the site has only been brief and in draft form, in order to develop and test the site, with continued regular advice and support from Dr Dave.  There are ideas for future developments, but I must start devoting a bigger proportion of time to posting content about abstract games, rather than wrestling the tentacled but powerful beast that is Drupal.

This EAG site was born in April 2021 - it is my first website.  At that stage, there was no design in mind and only a rough idea of the content I wanted to post.  The Drupal installation was done by Dr Dave Regis - many thanks.  Since then, I have been learning the techniques required to construct the site that you see and I have been using Drupal for Dummies to steer me through the possibilities.  The concepts introduced seem straightforward enough in principle, but when implementing them on EAG in the way that I want, there are a multitude of hurdles that obstruct progress.  Thanks again to Dr Dave for his ongoing patient help, without which I am likely to have ground to a halt.