The update to Symmetrical Backgrounds is proceeding apace. I have moved (locally) all the older images into the gallery format. The landing page has the gallery index as a tickler. There is one thumb from each gallery and a description of the images in the gallery in the center column. The thumb links to the index page for the gallery and I will probably add a ‘See the Gallery’ text link as well.

The original index pages for the various classes of images were very large. One advantage of using the gallery generator is that there are small file size thumbnails of each image. This will allow the index page to load much faster. There is also much less scrolling necessary to view the thumbs. All of the image pages are smaller, too, so the whole site should operate faster. People don’t like to wait for pages to load, although with expanding broadband usage this is less of a problem.

I still have to make some decisions and redo the menus. I am adding some banners, so at least a few must be selected. Then it will be on to the testing phase. I will test locally on my installation of xampp before I put this update on the web. It is a major rebuild of the site, and I am bound to have forgotten something somewhere.

If all goes well I may be able to upload the new site tonight. Of course, I will announce the event on this page, so subscribe to the RSS feed so that you will be advised when the event takes place!