Hello Indonesia

 As it my want I checked the website like you do to see where visitors from around the world are coming from, so I was Again surprised to see that some one from Indonesia landed on my site somehow.

So welcome enjoy the site,  assume that somehow you can make sense of what I have written here.

More Music Released

 So you should be able to see on this website that I have just released another 3 music track, each of which is in a different style.

So each track is different and in fact when I look back on the composing dates there is over a year or so between the tracks.

All the tracks use different samples and are in different keys and tempo’s I had fun making these tracks and I hope you can find the time to have a listen.

Liechtenstein

 Checking this sites stats I see that some how I have had a visitor from Liechtenstein, so welcome the reader or bot from Liechtenstein.

France

 So welcome my readers from France  are you bots or real live people, does it matter what you are?

Thank you for looking at this little website 😊 

French Bots

 Are there 8 different French bots scanning this blog or are they real people who some how had the misfortune to end up on this website?

I don’t know the answer to this question, but it’s interesting to see that if I keep posting every day the poor old bots have to keep coming back.

I wonder what happens when I post more than one post a day, do they have to keep visiting or do they just wait 24 hours?

I am going to try an experiment where I do more than one post a day and see what happens 

Xmas break

it's funny thing that you would think with all the free time over Xmas that I would be able to get on with my reading and to also do some much needed updates on my websites.

So what happens?

Yes, your ahead of me on this one!

Nothing, I mean I might get up a hour later than I DO NORMALLY, BUT STILL FOR ONE REASON OR ANOTHER I HAVE DONE NOTHING THAT I WANTED TO DO.

Why?

My books of which the reading pile is far too large remains un-looked at, my websites are still waiting to be edited and added to, but some how or other I find myself at nearly 4pm today and i have not touched either.

I don't understand where the time is going, it's not a nice feeling loosing time, but that is what appears to be happing to me.

websites

I have several websites that I have now had for several years, I have fun in keeping them working and also in getting new information for them.

In fact sometimes I think I enjoy the fact gathering far more than the website updating bit.

One thing that i have noticed is that I am for reasons that I have yet to work out spending far more time away from them than on them, I don't know why that is and it's not because i don't like the websites or the subject of the websites.

Updates

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.

Dirk Maggs

The Dirk Maggs website has had some work done to it and the good news is that I have evidence that Dirk is still doing stuff, not radio but is till stuff, and that's all that counts right?

According to the credits list Dirk was the script writer for the video for Final Frontier by Iron Maiden.

I have seen the video and its good but the music is not to my taste a tall, but I do understand what the song was about and how the video had to relate to it all in all a good job. I think I read that the time allowed to do video was very short 4 weeks?

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.

Website troubles

Dirk Maggs website is lost... all of it, backups as well. Not happy....

Website troubles

The bad news is that my Dirk Maggs website has gone bang and is now broken...which is not good not good a tall, I am hoping that my backups all work and that I shall have the website back up in a day or so.


If not then I will have to start all over again, which is not good.

Dirk Maggs

I have just fixed a problem where by for some reason the link to the Dirk Maggs website was not pointing to the correct start point on the website, I don't have any ideas as to what broke it or even how long it has been broken.


It all now appears to be working correctly which is good, as I noticed the number of hits had dropped right off.

I also sadly noticed that I am no longer the No 1 on google search for Dirk Maggs so bloke called Dirk Maggs! is now number one I don't know how he managed that!


So it would appear that my Dirk Maggs website has disappeared from google, I wonder just for how long.

Updates

Work on the websites has stopped for 2 reasons.

1 I had a weeks holiday, which I needed.
2 Work and getting other stuff done has a higher priority, and as doing the websites cost me money life gets in the way.

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.

Edits part 3

The adding of images to the Dirk Maggs website, is I think going well in that I can find the images for the page that I am editing, but I still have not worked out how to correctly scale the images so that they are all one uniform size.

The end result is that the pages that I have done all look well a bit scrappy is a word I could use, I am sure that you could think of other works ect to describe it better but lets not get into that.


So I know that I will have to revisit each page once I have found out how to scale the images but at least now some of the pages look better, in that they don't have large empty boxes on them where the images should be.

I have as I have gone a long made corrections or even added stuff to the pages. I have found so far one page that had no content, which was a bit of a surprise as I am sure that I went through each and every pages at least twice to make sure that I had not missed anything in the transfer from the old site to the new one.

But as I am only human it's something that is bound to happen and so when I found it, it was not to much effort to correct it.

So The Dirk Maggs website is doing well I think, I have changed the theme of the site again, but I don't know if I like it that much it will have to something that I will need to look at in the new year, which as I write this is only some 6 hours away!

Last Day

So the last day of 2009 which means that I will have done more blogs this year than i ever thought I would, not that this blog is about how many time I have bloged a week month year, well you get the idea I hope.

Just want to update the progress on the Dirk Maggs productions website, the good news is that I have started to add pictures to the pages!

The bad new is that I have not found a way to scale the images to the page layout yet, not to sure what is going on with that.

The page navigation issue has still not been solved but I think I now have all the content on the site, apart from the images of course!

I shall just get all the images up on each page that needs them and then worry about getting the layout of the pages right later, as its something I do in my spare time it will take a while to sort out.

Website Nav

I have had a series of website since the very early days of the WWW. I had thought that I had solved for my websites the problem of navigating around the sites even if you come to the site via another page and not the front door.

Since I move the main Dirk Maggs website to a databased one, I have found that I don't like the way it allows me to set up the sites navigation system. This could be me in not understanding how the programme works or it could be that the programme just doesn't offer what I want or what I want is just not possible with a database driven website.

You might shout read the manual, well yes I would if there was one and that it covered what I need to know, may be what I want to do is so straight forward that it appears obvious to one and all, except me

More head scratching is needed I thinks.

The Dirk Maggs website did get edited yesterday so it is a step nearer to be back to where it was before the changeover.

Updates

I have continued to convert the old Dirk Maggs producer website to the new database powered one, progress has been slow as there is so much stuff to move.

I have nearly got all the basic productions by years moved across, with only the years 2006 and 2003 to go, which I think is not bad going as each production page has to be moved by hand.

The next task after that is to make each page look right, as some how or other some of the layouts gets broken in the process of being transferred.

After that task which will I think take weeks I have to restore all the pictures to each page, and I have no idea just how long that will take.

But when it is all done it should make it easy to update the Dirk Maggs pages and also to enhance the content.

Broken Links 2

Just had a look at my main Dirk Maggs website, and still for some reason pages are not working.

I have re-uploaded, I don't know how many times, I have checked that the pages that I am linking to exsist and yet still there are pages that are not working.

Why?


It's doing my head in.