New homepage, other goodies
The past few days I’ve been very busy with web development. I’ve written a new home page for this site—from scratch—and I think it’s an improvement over the original one. I’ve also revamped the family business’s website, though those changes aren’t “live” yet—I only need switch out the index page with a new one that redirects to the new site location. I’m waiting to see if everything works out well and if everybody likes the new design. I’ve based it (surprise) on a WordPress blog. I’ve ported all the original pages to the blog as, well, pages; and I’ve even created a link to download a stock list—something I didn’t really know how to do when I put the first site up. Yes, I know it’s as simple as uploading a file and then placing a link to it on your site, but remember I was still having my hand held by FrontPage at the time. To be honest, I think WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editors hurt web development in this respect: they allow people to get by with only serial knowledge about web development. In other words, anything FrontPage doesn’t make obvious is a mystery to many prospective site creators. I know this. I was one.