The amount of updates that I now have to do to my two main websites the Dirk Maggs and James Follett ones due I think to the new cms software that I have installed to run both sites.
The other reason could also be because both Dirk and James appear to have gone quiet on new productions that I can report on.
Perhaps in the next few months there will be something to report on although you know what is going to happen.
Showing posts with label Update. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Update. Show all posts
04 September, 2010
18 July, 2010
I have finally redone the entire James Follett Website using a CMS to store and control the data, so far it all looks okay, all being well the updating of the site will be much easier, somehow or other I have set up a domain redirect, which works so that by typing the normal address for James Follett website you will be sent automatically to the new website.
Cool or what?
Any way the basic site is up there is a lot of up dating that has to happen to make sure all the text ect is the same.
Cool or what?
Any way the basic site is up there is a lot of up dating that has to happen to make sure all the text ect is the same.
12 June, 2010
Dirk Maggs Website
Good news the following pages are now apart from photo's all now working again on the Dirk Maggs Productions Website radio productions from 1988 to 2006.
Yes I know lots of work....The website appears to have backup itself ( which is I think a very good idea) can't think why that is but hey its doing it.
So in the grand scheme of things that only leaves all the work that Dirk has done that is not radio from 1988 to 2010.. There is a lot of work, then there is the small mater of sorting out the photo's.
Photo's of actors that do mainly radio are by their very nature not easy to get at, so it goes without saying that I will beg steal and borrow to get them, Why? you may ask?
The answer is that I think its great so see who theses voices belong to, as some times the voice does not match the face, if that's a nice way of putting it ( I am sure there is a better way but I don't have a clue how to put it)
I have found that it also makes each page about tone of Dirk's radio productions far more interesting.
Yes I know lots of work....The website appears to have backup itself ( which is I think a very good idea) can't think why that is but hey its doing it.
So in the grand scheme of things that only leaves all the work that Dirk has done that is not radio from 1988 to 2010.. There is a lot of work, then there is the small mater of sorting out the photo's.
Photo's of actors that do mainly radio are by their very nature not easy to get at, so it goes without saying that I will beg steal and borrow to get them, Why? you may ask?
The answer is that I think its great so see who theses voices belong to, as some times the voice does not match the face, if that's a nice way of putting it ( I am sure there is a better way but I don't have a clue how to put it)
I have found that it also makes each page about tone of Dirk's radio productions far more interesting.
06 June, 2010
Website Updating
Work continues on the Dirk Maggs website, the good news is that most of the reference section is now done, in the sense that all the page content is there, the only missing bits being the images, which for some reason or other I find myself leaving to the last thing to do, perhaps because it takes so long to find each images and insert it in to the page in the right place, and then to make sure the links and all that stuff work with it.
The website as a whole is I now suppose some 60 percent complete, so as the rate of progress slows I still think it will not be complete until December of 2010.
The page count now stands at 195 ! which was a bit of a surprise, I did not think the website was that large.
On another note the backup of the website all appears to be working as it should this time, so that's good news.
The website as a whole is I now suppose some 60 percent complete, so as the rate of progress slows I still think it will not be complete until December of 2010.
The page count now stands at 195 ! which was a bit of a surprise, I did not think the website was that large.
On another note the backup of the website all appears to be working as it should this time, so that's good news.
01 June, 2010
Dirk Maggs Website
The good news is that the rebuild of the Dirk Maggs website is going well. Years 1987-2003 have now been done (a part from images) all the main text content is in place, so I only have years 2004-2009 to do on radio productions.
25 May, 2010
Dirk Maggs
As you may or may not know I had a really bad day not so long a go, when I lost my Dirk Maggs website, and some how or other the six yes that's right six backups did not work and the database that ran the whole thing also broke.(Just don't ask)
It's easy to see how I was just a little bit upset( and that's an understatement!)
So what's a man to do?
Well start again!
That's what I have done and I am pleased that so far I think this version of the site is better than the last one. The good news is that all radio shows up to 1998 are now back on apart from the images that go with each show.
At the rate that I am redoing each page I think I will be done by Xmas 2010!
It's easy to see how I was just a little bit upset( and that's an understatement!)
So what's a man to do?
Well start again!
That's what I have done and I am pleased that so far I think this version of the site is better than the last one. The good news is that all radio shows up to 1998 are now back on apart from the images that go with each show.
At the rate that I am redoing each page I think I will be done by Xmas 2010!
29 April, 2010
Website Updating
Years 1987 and 1988 of Dirk Maggs Radio productions are now live on the website.
But search which used to work real well does not for some reason search the whole site, strange.
But search which used to work real well does not for some reason search the whole site, strange.
24 April, 2010
Website troubles
So I have the software installed, the database installed and working. I have chosen a theme for the website I have even put up a holding page.
I think there is about 198 pages of information to now reinstall, which is going to take weeks and weeks to do.
Then there is the navigation system and all the pictures to sort out.
The plane and simple truth is that the Dirk Maggs website is not going to be back up and working fully for sometime.
Bum
I think there is about 198 pages of information to now reinstall, which is going to take weeks and weeks to do.
Then there is the navigation system and all the pictures to sort out.
The plane and simple truth is that the Dirk Maggs website is not going to be back up and working fully for sometime.
Bum
30 March, 2010
Updates and cars
Ever had an update of the firmware to your car?
No nether have I yet My car was supposed to have its software updated today while it was being serviced, it did not happen as and get this the internet was down!
So due to this I will now have to loose my car yet again for a day.
I am not happy
No nether have I yet My car was supposed to have its software updated today while it was being serviced, it did not happen as and get this the internet was down!
So due to this I will now have to loose my car yet again for a day.
I am not happy
02 March, 2010
Updates
As I think I sad in an earlier blog, I have just started to do some work on the new James Follett website, pretty much in the same lines as the Dirk Maggs one, well why not it all seems to work okay and once everything is in the updating of the website is to tell the truth really really very easy and that's one of the main things that I want to gain from all of this updating stuff.
I must admit that the James Follett site is smaller I think, in fact I'm not to sure how they compare size wise. I suspect that over the next few weeks it's something that I will find out from first hand experience.
So then, on the James Follett side of things the database is set up and the core elements that go to make up the website are now all in place, all and I say this lightly all I now have to do is get the content transferred into the new website. This is a task that has to be done manually which is a pain but there dose not seem to be any other way of getting the job done, so manual it is.
I have so far only put the very first page up, mainly to see if it all works and all that sort of stuff that you do when trying out new stuff, it all appears to be working how I would expect it to which is good.
So I now have the long task of converting it to the new format. I don't know if I should tell James or not, as I am not sure if he is that interested in his unofficial website these days.
I will set up the domain so that when complete it points at the new website, and when I have checked that it all works I will delete the old website.
If by any chance James does realise any new material it will be very easy to update and also as an added benefit he could also with the right permissions edit the site, or at least correct it or even add missing information to it.
So lots to do.
I must admit that the James Follett site is smaller I think, in fact I'm not to sure how they compare size wise. I suspect that over the next few weeks it's something that I will find out from first hand experience.
So then, on the James Follett side of things the database is set up and the core elements that go to make up the website are now all in place, all and I say this lightly all I now have to do is get the content transferred into the new website. This is a task that has to be done manually which is a pain but there dose not seem to be any other way of getting the job done, so manual it is.
I have so far only put the very first page up, mainly to see if it all works and all that sort of stuff that you do when trying out new stuff, it all appears to be working how I would expect it to which is good.
So I now have the long task of converting it to the new format. I don't know if I should tell James or not, as I am not sure if he is that interested in his unofficial website these days.
I will set up the domain so that when complete it points at the new website, and when I have checked that it all works I will delete the old website.
If by any chance James does realise any new material it will be very easy to update and also as an added benefit he could also with the right permissions edit the site, or at least correct it or even add missing information to it.
So lots to do.
21 February, 2010
Updates
The Dirk Maggs website is a bit nearer to being completed as I want it.
I am now working on the odds section, and so far it has some 16 pages, which is a bit of a surprise, I hope to have it all done soon. One thing that I have done is drop pages that are no longer needed as this new website works in a very different way to the old, so much so that features that the old did not have and so had to have pages created by hand to give the feature are now created or done automatically by the new site software, neat!
I think that a another couple of weeks will do it.
The only thing that I will I suppose have to work out in the near future is how to update the software that runs the cms, and do it in such a way that it is safe.
The other thing that I will also have to do will be to delete all the old pages on the website so only the new Dirk Maggs site remains.
I am now working on the odds section, and so far it has some 16 pages, which is a bit of a surprise, I hope to have it all done soon. One thing that I have done is drop pages that are no longer needed as this new website works in a very different way to the old, so much so that features that the old did not have and so had to have pages created by hand to give the feature are now created or done automatically by the new site software, neat!
I think that a another couple of weeks will do it.
The only thing that I will I suppose have to work out in the near future is how to update the software that runs the cms, and do it in such a way that it is safe.
The other thing that I will also have to do will be to delete all the old pages on the website so only the new Dirk Maggs site remains.
13 February, 2010
Updates
I am hoping that to day I can finish the layout changes on the Dirk Maggs website, and that after that has been done the site can be called done as far as this round of changes and updates to it goes.
I suspect that the next changes will be if I get new pictures of any of the voice actors that I haven't already got or if Dirk ever does another new radio production or and yes there are lots of or's in this sentence I get new information on any of the radio productions already featured.
I suspect that the next changes will be if I get new pictures of any of the voice actors that I haven't already got or if Dirk ever does another new radio production or and yes there are lots of or's in this sentence I get new information on any of the radio productions already featured.
12 February, 2010
Updates
So I have I think got most of the images in on the major pages of the Dirk Maggs website, which is good, I have decided at this time that the interlinking of pages on the website is not needed as I give every user of the website the chance to search the entire website for whatever they are looking for.
Saying that the number of users for the new Dirk Maggs website never hit more than 75-100 people a day so I suppose I am not going to upset many people by removing the links, and any way its my site and I can do whatever I want with it, and if removing stuff like interlinks makes my job easier for no real loss of usability then its a step that I am going to take.
Saying that the number of users for the new Dirk Maggs website never hit more than 75-100 people a day so I suppose I am not going to upset many people by removing the links, and any way its my site and I can do whatever I want with it, and if removing stuff like interlinks makes my job easier for no real loss of usability then its a step that I am going to take.
11 February, 2010
Updates
Just do a bit more updating of the Dirk Maggs website, and even if I have to say it myself it's going well.
I think that in the next day or so I should have all the pages in all the pictures in. The only thing that will be left to do will be the interlinks within the website, which will take some time.
I also have an idea for the odd extra page here and there after that the only changes will be if new material turns up or a new production by Dirk appears.
I think that in the next day or so I should have all the pages in all the pictures in. The only thing that will be left to do will be the interlinks within the website, which will take some time.
I also have an idea for the odd extra page here and there after that the only changes will be if new material turns up or a new production by Dirk appears.
10 February, 2010
Updates
I have made some more progress on the Dirk Maggs website, in that I think I have worked out how to get some of the tables to center up. Its a bit of a cheat in that all I do is make the table width bigger, and some how or other it center itself when being displayed, no I don't understand how it does it, but it appears to work, this means I now have to go through all 200 odd pages, as I did't keep a record of what pages were broken, oh well
08 February, 2010
Updates
Have some how found just a bit of time to do some more update to the Dirk Maggs website, I have added a few more images and also added some changes to the layout of a couple of the pages, so hopefully making them easier to read.
I still have a layout issue on some pages where for some reason or other the pictures in a frame will not center up in the page, why I just don't know.
So those pages will remain broken until I find a way of correcting what ever the fault is that breaks them.
I still have a layout issue on some pages where for some reason or other the pictures in a frame will not center up in the page, why I just don't know.
So those pages will remain broken until I find a way of correcting what ever the fault is that breaks them.
31 January, 2010
Last Post
This is the last post for this month and all in all so of the projects that I wanted to work on have been worked on, which is good.
The websites that I have, so far only one of them which is the Dirk Maggs Productions website has been updated, work on it will take some months yet but I think there is light at the end of the tunnel as the saying goes.
The websites that I have, so far only one of them which is the Dirk Maggs Productions website has been updated, work on it will take some months yet but I think there is light at the end of the tunnel as the saying goes.
30 January, 2010
Updates 7
Updates
I have managed to update the Dirk Maggs website for production year 2001 and 2003. For some reason that I have yet to work out the layout on pages that I am sure I had sorted out are now all wrong with all the headings all hard over to the left-hand side, why this is I just don't have a clue.
Any way these two years all the production pages where looking okay as of this post on my blog.
So that of course means that the next time that I go and have a look they will be broken again!
I have managed to update the Dirk Maggs website for production year 2001 and 2003. For some reason that I have yet to work out the layout on pages that I am sure I had sorted out are now all wrong with all the headings all hard over to the left-hand side, why this is I just don't have a clue.
Any way these two years all the production pages where looking okay as of this post on my blog.
So that of course means that the next time that I go and have a look they will be broken again!
25 January, 2010
Updates
The updates to the Dirk Maggs website are still going on, the only trouble is that for most users of the site you can't see any changes.
The other thing that I have also noticed is that the number of visits to the site has collapsed, where I used to have thousands I am now lucky if I have 20 or 30 a day. Which is a bit of a surprise as I am still very high up on Goggle when you do a search for Dirk Maggs.
I know that I still have the old Dirk Maggs site, but that is not getting any more hits than the new one, so I am not too sure just what is going on.
I also have the problem of working out just how to safely remove the old website without loosing the new one.
The other thing that I have also noticed is that the number of visits to the site has collapsed, where I used to have thousands I am now lucky if I have 20 or 30 a day. Which is a bit of a surprise as I am still very high up on Goggle when you do a search for Dirk Maggs.
I know that I still have the old Dirk Maggs site, but that is not getting any more hits than the new one, so I am not too sure just what is going on.
I also have the problem of working out just how to safely remove the old website without loosing the new one.
23 January, 2010
Updates 6
on the Dirk Maggs productions website I have just sorted out production year 1998, so it joins the list of pages that now have some form of navigation.
Still loads to do.
Still loads to do.
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