About This Site

by admin on August 5, 2008

This is the administrative site for Quillcards.

If Quillcards is down for scheduled maintenance or if there is an unexpected glitch, members can check the maintenance status here. That is because this site is hosted on a different server to Quillcards.com.

The Quillcards servers are very reliable – with over 99.9% uptime over a long period – so there should be very few outages.

You can check the webserver status of Quillcards by clicking the WebServer Status tab in the navigation bar above.

To get to the main site from here, click Quillcards or click the Quillcards tab in the navigation bar.

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Expecting

by admin on March 8, 2012

Breathing steadily and waiting for labour to begin. She stands solid on four legs that are thin as sticks, while she is wrapped in strands of loose-curled wool. She would like to laze on a beach drinking Bacardi, but she has to stand and wait.

The others around her and like her twin. She is her sisters and they are she. They breathe in unison against a rising wave of discomfort and the future.

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Images By Permission

February 13, 2012

We were contacted by a gentleman who runs a translation agency in Italy. He runs Chris Brewerton Translations and uses one of our images – with an attribution – and after asking us for permission to use it, which we gladly gave. Very nice.

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Top Ten List Of India Travel Articles

February 11, 2012

Encountering Elephants In India from Udaipur weddings to Rajaji National Park. Getting married in India means that the bride’s family gets out the great guns, and that is what led to my first sighting of an Asian elephant swaying down a neighborhood street. Made up for the occasion with white markings on her face and [...]

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On Design And Color For The Web

January 9, 2012

There are a number of tools – some web-based and some that you have to download – with which you can produce a color combination for a web page that will look attarctive, uniform and integrated. One such tool that I use is the Color Wizard from ColorsOnTheWeb. It is web-based, so it will work [...]

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