A Couple of Site Updates
Fresh when it gets here from
Julie Barrett
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Nothing planet-shattering. The main change (in response to numerous inquiries) is to the fiction section. Boy, that place was a mess! It's grown and morphed over the years, and as I've gone from straight HTML pages to ASP to ASP.Net, I've found myself maintaining three copies of the same story. Not only that, but in the HTML and ASP versions the links to the contact page were outdated in most cases.
So here's what I've done. There is now ONE version of each story, but the old page points to the current version. I'm surprised (and flattered!) at the number of web sites that link back to individual stories, and this means that the links won't "break."
And, on the chance that pages on this site are still linking back to the old contact page, I've restored it with text that instructs human visitors to visit the home page (and it's linked) and click on the webmaster graphic. It's a little obfuscated, but the point is to keep the spambots at bay while still pointing humans in the right direction.
And yes, I know. Some of these stories need serious rewrites. I was cringing while going through and reformatting the pages. I fixed a few typos, but I had to make a choice between fixing the site and fixing the stories, and the site won. The stories are next.
Thanks for your patience, and please let me know if you run into dead links.
Tags: Housekeeping
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