Woohoo! The upgrade is complete!

After some minor tinkering with the EMailMatt and CommentsQuestions forms and general testing, I decided to make the thing go live tonight.

Some major things to note:

• All references to email addresses for myself have been replaced with links to EMailMatt. This page is a simple form used for me to ensure the receipt of emails through the site, mostly by keeping a standard email address and layout to incoming mail from visitors (done so my mail software won’t filter it as spam).
• General restructuring. I’ve managed to set up the parent system better. In other words, things in the news system will have parents of MattNews (which makes sense, as news items are ‘children’ pages)…and similarly pages in the pictures part of the site will have parents of MattPictures.
• Addition of my mugshot in the logo portion (upper left-hand corner).
• Change in page function (includes for the sidebar and footer information) which lessen individual page sizes and make it simpler to update things like the footer and sidebar.
• Redirects. By default, all .html pages within the http://mzonline.com/zaskem subdirectory will automatically be forwarded to WebHome. This is done for multiple reasons, some of which being simplicity and others being protection (people don’t need to be looking through directories of images). In the past, I just had dummy index.html pages in subdirectories to take care of this.

The site still remains mostly intact in general appearance. Hopefully you all will like it.

Some things I need to do yet include:

• remove existing pages (which due to the redirects you will no longer be able to access)
• re-catalog and index images in the subtree. This has been a long time in coming, but will get done in the pseudo-near future.

This post was upgraded to the MZ Online Blog on 8/20/07