The renovation project is officially up on the web. I uploaded the new site last evening. I have used the random rotator script to change the background on the home page and included a link to reload the page. I also put all of the images into galleries and give direct access to the thumb pages from the home page.

The galleries provide several advantages. The old index pages were very long and took a lot of scrolling. The thumbnail pages are fairly short with minimal scrolling. They also load much faster that the old pages that used full size images. I have modifies my gallery software to produce the pages using the presented image as the page background. The gallery software generates the pages – pronto!!

There were almost two thousand files to upload with this rebuild. I deleted the old site completely and uploaded the new site. Even with the higher speed Internet connection it took several minutes. I did upload a folder needlessly that was much bigger than I needed to upload, so that took up a third to half of the total time spent in the upload.

Everything that I checked is working fine. I had done some testing on my local server installation, so I had most of the bugs squashed before I uploaded the site. If you can find something that doesn’t work right please let me know. You can find the site at: http://www.symmetricalbackgrounds.com/

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