Another cleanup over the long weekend. I rendered all the pages on www.feastoflanterns.com over again for standards and accessibility. Also added an obituary page and updated the 2010 schedule (with the delete key!)

I’m trying to do something with www.kfat.info. My vision is a songfinder database where you can find the artist, title & label of a song with keywords. Enter “Mama, trains, prison” and it will return “David Allen Coe, Steve Goodman, You Never Called Me By My Name” with links to buy the CD over at Amazon. I did manage to create an SQL table and upload data to it with a form but never got further.

I finished up the last few pages that needed to have the dust scraped off of them. Proof-checked all that I could for standards of readability. Added a few more like the ashtray collection (!!) and a couple of computer projects that ended up in the trash or given away to others.

I put google adsense ads on most of the pages – sit back and watch the money roll in, ha ha. I actually did make $100 in about 3 years from Google ads so it does work. Though it sucks to see satellite TV ads show up.

Going to go take some pictures of Candy Cane Lane tonight. See what the Nikon can do.

I’ve registered a few Pacific Grove web domain names and point them to the photo sites on barovelli.com or their own sites. I’m going to repeat the overhaul on the Feast Of Lanterns pages, brush them up a little.

Merry Christmas!

Nearly all the legacy pages are back in the new template. Now it’s like solving a puzzle, checking internal and external links for errors. Once that stuff is done I want to tinker with some of the CSS settings and perfect the template.
Whew.

It’s been a re-learning experience bringing back the old website. Got just enough CSS knowledge to change the page colors and fonts. I kind of miss the ‘Training Wheels’ from MS Front Page, mostly the live updating of stuff. Now when I see an error I bring up a local copy, edit it, start Filezilla, log in and replace the file.

TV pages are back. The MPTV page needs some updating, I’ve collected a few snips of MPTV life since that was made (1999?)

Music pages all updated. New play lists and the same old story.

Working on the totally remodeled Projects section. Old car projects are up, have a couple of new ones that were previously made for message boards.

Another overhaul and change – maybe the 4th one in 8 years. Usually because I get mad at something that does not work right and that is the reason this time.

Tried using a CMS, I liked the search engine optimizing, but putting adsense ads was a pain, as was adding pictures. Eh. Back to static old web pages.

New – Home Page used to be a big long blog. Now it’s a ‘home’ page of things about my home town. The blog-like stuff is here, the blog.

New – CSS. finally got a grip on it. Kind of. Using an old copy of Microsoft Expression Web for WYSIWYG edits and HTML validation. One goal is to be accessible to most all browsers. Most barovelli.com pages are text & photos and are simple to standardize. When you put tables and other sins of past HTML editors in the mix not so. I loaded the Feast Of Lanterns comedy page into it and Expression just about barfed.

New – Photo albums. The old Pacific Grove parades with their hand coded slides are gone. This time I threw some nice gallery pages on the site with JAlbum.

Same – Music play lists. Export iTunes play list, clean up text and post it.

Same – Project pages. I reorganized but the same photo rich computer & car project documentation.

Same – Radio page favorites. QSL Cards. Microphone schematics. None of the old URLs were saved so links from other sited were broken. I learned some redirect features of the .htaccess file and built in redirects.

Same – Family photos private gallery.

Planned – scanner frequency lookup. Learn to upload a flat file into SQL & query same file. I’m thinking about buying a script for it or trying to learn the trick to DIY.

Thanks for reading.