I have just gone live with updates to my personal site, now called Wink’s Web Space and my business site at AudioArt Sound. There have been a few updates along the way so these are now in about the third major version.

I have learned a good bit about constructing websites in the last year. I put some of this into practice with this update. They were past due for a rebuild, although the rebuild was not as extensive as it could have been. I had already set the sites up with a css based layout for the 2.0 version of the sites. I had to go through and add some containers and rename others. There were some parts that I discarded.

This came about primarily because I had gone to blogging software on the AudioArt site. I set up the blog and liked the way that it looked, so I set out to make the rest of the site match. When I was finished with the business site the old personal site looked a bit dodgy, so I went ahead and did the rebuild to it, too.

These sites use php include files in several areas. Php does not work directly on a personal computer. I do have a server set up on my computer, but I decided to upload the sites to a temporary directory on the server for testing. Then when the sites were tested I just renamed the directory for the old site and then renamed the temporary directory with the site directory name. That is why the old sites are still available on the server if you know the address. I really do need to put a no index/no follow robots text file in those folders so that Google and others don’t get a headache.