Day: June 22, 2005

I finally got the lion’s share of my website finished and updated. Whew! I think the worst of it was uploading everything. I couldn’t get my FTP program to talk nicely with my host’s system, so I ended up using their web-based FTP. Which only uploads five files at a time. Which was right some Jesus tedious. But it’s done, done, done.

There are a few finishing touches that need to be added and wrinkles that need to be ironed out, but it’s basically done and functional. I’ve got more composition book journal pages to add and I need to figure out why the text-only navigation links at the tops of all the pages aren’t displaying exactly alike. It’s not a big deal, but it’s one of those things that makes me go hmmm. I’ve tested everything in Firefox and IE, and will check them in Opera, too. I don’t have access to Netscape, though, so if any of y’all who use Netscape can test drive it, I’d appreciate it.

Edit: I figured out the problem with the text-only links–I missed uploading style sheets for them–and I’ve fixed it. A bigger issue is that I need to go in and make the full-size images open on top, instead of inside the lower frame. I meant to do that in the first place, but forgot. Blech. That means I’ll have to alter every single slide page, which should be, um, fun.

I’d guess that about half the content is new (or, new to the web). The old stuff has been rephotographed or scanned, so the images are much cleaner. There are a few pieces that need to be reshot, because there’s surface glare, but for the most part, all the images are in decent shape. I’m not normally a fan of frames, but this seemed a logical place to use them. On each gallery page, there are image thumbnails across the top of the page that link to frames that contain mid-sized images and, often, info about the piece. The mid-sized images (most are around 50K) link to big images (most range from 200-500K).

So, without further ado:

http://www.cat-sidh.net