{"id":743,"date":"2010-07-27T00:04:57","date_gmt":"2010-07-26T15:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/?p=743"},"modified":"2010-08-04T12:51:17","modified_gmt":"2010-08-04T03:51:17","slug":"home-page-revamped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/home-page-revamped\/","title":{"rendered":"Home page revamped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The home page at shiga-ken.com has been revamped to be an online portal to Shiga Prefecture.<\/p>\n<p>I used to have a long list of links to all my online photo albums, but now I have condensed the photo links and added the following link categories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Maps &#8211; Google Maps of most Shiga cities and towns. I created these maps\u00a0with placemarks (usually with a photo) in English.<\/li>\n<li>Tourist Information &#8211; Links to local tourist associations in Shiga cities and towns. Most are only in Japanese.<\/li>\n<li>Local Governments &#8211; Links to official Web sites run by the city hall or town hall.<\/li>\n<li>International Associations &#8211; Links to international associations (kokusai koryu kyokai) in Shiga. They usually handle sister-city activities.<\/li>\n<li>Education &#8211; Links to higher educational institutions and organizations.<\/li>\n<li>Local News &#8211; Links to mass media covering local news in Shiga. (In Japanese only)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The home page also has a Shiga News Headlines animated banner toward the top. This displays the latest five headlines from this Shiga News blog. You can click on it to see a news feed for Shiga News. The code for this headlines banner can also be installed on your Web site by clicking on &#8220;Grab this Headline Animator.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 0; padding-bottom: 0; text-align: center; line-height: 0;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/ShigaNews\/~6\/1\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/ShigaNews.1.gif\" alt=\"Shiga News Headlines\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 5px; padding-top: 0; font-size: x-small; text-align: center;\"><a onclick=\"window.open(this.href, 'haHowto', 'width=520,height=600,toolbar=no,address=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars'); return false\" href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/headlineanimator\/install?id=vu2lqqgaajdnh2a0ltm9v55dkc&amp;w=1\" target=\"_blank\">\u2191 Grab this Headline Animator<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A similar headlines animated banner for each city and town in Shiga is also being installed in the &#8220;About&#8221; pages for each city and town. For example:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/txt\/Aisho-cho,_Shiga#Miscellaneous\" target=\"_self\">https:\/\/photoguide.jp\/txt\/Aisho-cho,_Shiga#Miscellaneous <\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 0; padding-bottom: 0; text-align: center; line-height: 0;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/ShigaNews-ByPhilbertOnoAisho\/~6\/1\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/ShigaNews-ByPhilbertOnoAisho.1.gif\" alt=\"Shiga News - Aisho\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 5px; padding-top: 0; font-size: x-small; text-align: center;\"><a onclick=\"window.open(this.href, 'haHowto', 'width=520,height=600,toolbar=no,address=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars'); return false\" href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/headlineanimator\/install?id=u9mq5oikjuif7o5u9t1luj49ik&amp;w=1\" target=\"_blank\">\u2191 Grab this Headline Animator<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I hope the home page will now be more useful to everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The home page at shiga-ken.com has been revamped to be an online portal to Shiga Prefecture. I used to have a long list of links to all my online photo albums, but now I have condensed the photo links and&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":745,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions\/745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiga-ken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}