Many of you have noticed that my website suddenly disappeared! I wanted to let everyone know there is no problems here and the only thing that went wrong was my believing the MobileMe/Apple people when they said nothing would happen to my website when they discontinued MobileMe!
I kept getting all these urgent messages to move my photos and such; which I ignored. Not me, we are all set, the MobileMe/Apple staff have assured me that all is well and already set for transition! Whoops. Imagine my surprise when I logged onto the website and got a big "site closed" sign! Luckily, I noticed it pretty early on in July and the site closed end of June so hopefully we didn't disappoint too many people looking for Blue Picardies! Blessed I am in the skills of rearing dogs but I am one of the most incompetent computer people you will ever meet!
One of the big disappointments in all of this is that MobileMe had a gallery where I could download photos and movies of litters each week to share with excited puppy buyers wanting to share in the process of watching their puppy grow up. Now that MobileMe is out of business I no longer have this asset and I welcome anyone's advice on where I could do this now? I have not had good luck with youtube in the past and would like something more private that I could direct clients to. I use it so much with each litter-weekly in fact for about three months, but I don't use it at all in the time between litters.
I also was basking in the knowledge that we now have four litters of Blue Picardy Spaniels on the ground now ranging in age from 4 months to 2+ years. People are so wonderful about getting me photos in the beginning, but they seem to forget as the dogs get older to include me in on the Facebook photos and updates! I would love for all my puppy owners to send me photos, especially the older guys. I would like to do some blogs showing the puppies as they grow up highlighting when they leave me and what they matured to look like. As I've said, there is variety in the breed and the more you can see the better. It also helps perspective buyers to decide whether or not the "look" I am producing is what they are looking for in a dog.
And I would love to see puppy owners taking the initiative to post blogs and photos of their own dogs on this site too-that's why I set it up! It is so fun to share in that and I am looking forward to it!
