Web Work!

Well, it would seem as though my ‘work web project’ is coming along (and going) better than anticipated. After all, had you told me this time a week ago (which is about the time I was beginning to think about tackling the renovation/upgrade project) that I’d be as far as I am, I’d have laughed…

Long story short, the complete farm-software.com renovation (completely new look, additional functionality, general HTML/XHTML compliance and simplicity, and cross-browser compatibility), at least as far as that which the user sees — which is only about half of the entire site), is about 3/4 complete. It’s actually more complete than that as far as HTML is concerned, but factoring in some proofing time and time it will take for new content generation gives me that estimate.

I have to admit that, even though I really was not looking forward to the color scheme and pre-determined pseudo-layout requirements, the look is really impressive now that it’s mostly complete…and has actually grown on me. I would anticipate that within (or in about) a week from now, the user frontend will probably go live. As far as the administrative backend is concerned, that’s another story… But as far as that goes, most of that will actually entail just changing the look to the new one (which actually isn’t all that bad, since the lot of it is done with PHP includes), so it’s going to entail finding all the unused and extra CSS (I’ve started fresh with a new set of stylesheets since the old ones were getting a bit big and bulky) and changing things around as appropriate. So, the backend is mostly change in look and not function, whereas the frontend is a combination of both.

Besides, the news system I finished developing on Monday…so aside from some random optimizations and/or cleaning up with PHP, it shouldn’t be too bad.

Another Step Gone…

…in the house obtaining process. Hopefully by sometime tomorrow (Thursday) we will have some new and better information about stuff related to the house (in regards to the septic system). What does this mean? Well, it really means that (if all goes well), we should probably be at the bank (again) sometime early next week at the latest to give them some new actual numbers…so they can begin their process again. They already have an app on file, so it’s mostly a matter of changing numbers…

And then the next round will begin with appraisal and ‘more final’ approval…

At least the process is still in motion — for a while we were getting a bit erratic.

Anyway, until next time…

This post was upgraded to the MZ Online Blog on 8/25/07