The update for Event Staff Online is coming along. I have brought the existing pages up to the current state of my art. I have added a few new administrative pages. I am redoing some of the nav. I will be adding comment facilities on some of the pages.

The physical work takes time, but there is also time involved in thinking the changes out. The planning is important because I intend to promote the site a bit and visitors must be able to find their way around if there is to be value to the site.

I will be adding sidebar banners to this site. I need to choose banners that will complement the site, things in which my visitors may be interested. I have the code for the banner rotators in place, but I have to populate the banner pool.

With all the changes I will want to do some testing before I actually go live with the update. I have been doing that more recently, but I am also likely to make more radical changes with a site rebuild than I formerly would have done. I expect to complete the job tomorrow. I will play a bugle blast when it comes out of the gate. Stay tuned for the big excitement.

There is now content in five of the eight boxes on the home page (on my local server only). I made a very minor error in one of the text files and that box loaded only intermittently. I looked at the file and say the error immediately. I had added a separator after the last entry. That appears to be something that can confuse the poor script, but I guess that it was really just loading the blank space after the divider. I also had to isolate my label from the script because I had used a few smaller banners and they would push some of the headings out of the way. I had wondered about that. It is all doing what it is designed to do on the local server. It will be interesting to put it up live. I might have done that this evening, but a job came up at the last minute, so once again, work is interfering with my hobby.