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Title: Site Maintenance & Cleanup
Post by: marko on March 30, 2018, 03:19:56 PM

I plan to do some cleanup on the site this evening - March 30 about 11:00 PM - 2:00 AM PST, so don't panic if it has a few ups and downs.  It should be very fairly non-disruptive except for when I flip a couple of switches.


For me that has been an interesting journey over the last several years as my vocation is really in Technical Project Management rather directly in web development.  Fortunately thanks to a few initial lucky choices things have been fairly smooth sailing thus far, the site has expanded rather dramatically and managed the expansion it has had thus far though it is probably due for a bit of a make-over as visually it is a bit long in the tooth.  (That will come at a somewhat later date when I have long block of time off.)


To finish up the first pass as well as in preparation for eventually having a younger successor I have been doing going a bit of general clean up to make the site even easier to support for the future.  Fortunately a pretty easy lift at this point.  It should be a one and done tonight.


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Title: Re: Site Maintenance & Cleanup
Post by: Nicholas Ball on March 30, 2018, 05:24:26 PM

Thanks Mark :)

Title: Re: Site Maintenance & Cleanup
Post by: willie on March 30, 2018, 05:34:06 PM

Thanks Mark :D Willie

Title: Re: Site Maintenance & Cleanup
Post by: marko on March 31, 2018, 03:27:46 AM

Finished in record time!  Please let me know of anything that now acts differently.


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Title: Re: Site Maintenance & Cleanup
Post by: PJDeluhery on March 31, 2018, 02:30:32 PM

Looks good! Many thanks, Mark.

Title: Re: Site Maintenance & Cleanup
Post by: johnr on April 01, 2018, 10:17:08 AM

Well done Mark we really do appreciate all the work you do for the site.

John

Title: Re: Site Maintenance & Cleanup
Post by: snagy on April 02, 2018, 12:23:25 AM

Everything works fine, as I see.
Thank you Mark!
Happy Easter Monday!!
Sandor

Title: Re: Site Maintenance & Cleanup
Post by: marko on April 06, 2018, 12:53:23 PM

One item I forgot to note and I was surprised no one has mentioned is the KnowledgeBase section has been dropped from the site.  This was an add on that is no longer supported and has been throwing errors and thus slowing down the site and as such was deleted.

The Knowlebase contained a wealth of interesting articles on Painting Flats as well as the history of flats including many articles from Graham Dixey on both.  Those articles/links have all been saved and will either be moved to a new HTML based page or distributed throughout the site, i.e. they have all been saved.


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Title: Re: Site Maintenance & Cleanup
Post by: Richard on April 08, 2018, 10:35:05 AM

Thanks Mark for this well done work.

Richard