Tu: New site version up; next step

Starting Point

About a week ago, before I went to Mayos, I did 1-3 above, and it didn’t work. First, nothing happened, and then I realized I was having trouble with the cache. I cleared the cache on Chrome, and things worked better, but the top horizontal menu was broken.

  • One theory is that somehow having a php page mixed in broke things.
  • Another theory is that there is a second cache on my server page, and maybe it is pulling from that; however, at the time, I was reluctant to delete that in case it broke everything and I’d be left with a dead site.

Current steps

I am trying a more cautious incremental approach. I have

1. Made sure that none of the top level pages (except index.html) have the same names as the original site

2. I have eliminated all references to .php files from this version

Results

It worked!

There was something wrong with the way I had included the .css file – it worked when the browser was reading files from the disk, but failed on the server.

I will now go back and try putting in the version with the php work.  Yes, that worked as well. The php file was not a problem.

Next steps

  • I am going to see if I can make the professional page look better by moving the images into the ‘content’ part of the screen grid.  I got the format the way I like it by putting a table within a table, but I need to figure out how to create and invoke a second table definition in the .css sheet so I can have an internal table with no borders. I ought to understand this.
  • Next I think I will print out the top pages, and edit the text for brevity.
  • After that I will return to php – it would be nice to put cool pictures up, with commentary, in the same way the quotes come up. This is probably a larger project, though.

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