Need A Photographer?

Every once in a while we like to help out a human friend. If you are anywhere near the Charlottesville, VA area and need some two or four legged photography done, Andrea is your gal!

CLICK HERE to check out her portfolio or you can contact her directly at andreahubbell@gmail.com.

A little info from her website:

I am a designer, photographer, writer and amateur cook living and working in Charlottesville, Virginia.  I am the creator, author and photographer of Bella Eats, a food blog featuring recipes that I test in my kitchen and share with my readers via thoughtful writing and mouth-watering photos.  While food has been my primary subject for the last year, I’ve recently felt the urge to rekindle my relationship with portrait photography and have begun to offer my services to friends, new and old.  This site is a place for me to share my work and to introduce myself to those of you that I haven’t met.  I hope that you like what you see, and that you will contact me if you feel the urge to collaborate on a project.  Or, if you’d just like to say hello, it would be lovely to hear from you.

Bark/Bury

Secret Project Revealed!

We would like to officially announce the project that has us so busy!

THE FORUM @ GSD ADVENTURES

A quick (not so quick) note from our Mom about the secret project:

A fellow dog blogger, Goodbear of Daily Dog Photo and Cody Bear’s Friends  had the idea to start a dog book club. The basic concept would be to read one dog themed fiction book a month and discuss. We tossed around different ideas for discussion and then I realized that the kids and I had talked at length about putting up a forum (the same basic concept as The Bone Zone over at Dogs With Blogs) but a more general forum for animals and humans alike. This was our push to get it done. So done it is! We would love if any of the humans out there would like to join in on the forum and book club. We are a very informal bunch and love any and all conversation. The book for April is “The Dogs of Babel” by Carolyn Parkhurst.

First things first. We’ve added a button on the top right of our side bar that looks like this so you can easily access the forum just by coming to our site:

Click there or here to enter the forum. The address is easy to remember too - just http://www.gsdadventures.com/forum

Told you it was easy. If you join and think that button (for all those non nerds a button is an image that is linked to another site that you put up on your page as a quick reference and announcement that you belong to a particular community) is snazzy there is an area where you can snag your own button code in the forum under, “New to the Forum? We’ll Help You Get Started.”  Think this button is too big - there are other options to choose from.

Next step is to create an account. Once you go to the forum, scroll all the way to the bottom. There will be an area to login if you have an account (that is where you will log in once you take care of this next little part) and a button that says “Register“. Click it and away you go. Select a user name and password, create your profile and start posting.

Check out where the red arrow points. That is what you are looking for at the bottom of the forum screen. You can even click this image to go to the forum! OMD!

If you aren’t familiar with forums there is an FAQ button on the top right of the page.

See that red circle. That is the top right of the forum page. You will always see that FAQ button which you can click for help. You can also register or log in the same area.

For anything you can’t find there please just post in the FAQs section at the top of the board.

This is a screen shot of the board main page. At the top you see the Forum for FAQ. Just click and it will take you to the next screen.

Then click "New Topic". It will open up a form that looks similar to an email box and you type in your topic and hit post. Your message appears on the board and we will post a reply.

I or another member of the forum will post a reply.

If you are totally confused after trying to do those things please just send us an email gsdadventures@gmail.com and we’ll do all we can to walk you through the process of using a forum. We don’t want anyone to be discouraged. There are no stupid questions.

The best way to think of the forum is like group chat or a message board. It is informal. Don’t worry about being profound or profetic. Just put your thoughts down and respond to topics. This is just a place to build a community with an underlying theme of a love for animals.

Think of it as sending an email to your friends (that original email is a “topic”) and then your friends just keep replying or “posting”. But you go to the board to see the topics and posts. You can private message “pm” your forum friends too so you don’t have to remember a lot of email addresses.

When you create an account it tracks what items you have and haven’t read. So that when you log back in you can see which sections have been updated. Cool right!?

Please let us know if you have any questions. We really want this to be user friendly and beneficial to its users. If you see a need for an area on the forum or would like to get involved - let us know.

Bark/Bury