Archive for the ‘Week 6’ Category

Today was spent cleaning viruses from various computers and generally sorting out the hard drives and doing a bit of clean-up electronically. Apparently the virus did not originate from here but rather was lurking on a client’s server, one who does not host with us. So now we are all clean and shiny and ready to go back to work.

Also today I finally added the Photo Gallery to this blog. Please do go and check it out – I am pretty happy with the photos, and the story they start to tell about this wonderful building we are located in.

I was happier to be back at work today  than I thought I would be – part of that due no doubt to the fact that my husband makes a very impatient patient! I left him to rest and take it easy at home for the day, but he’ll have to make his own snacks!

I was glad to have gotten as many pages done at home yesterday as I did. There are over 240 of them to do, and I am averaging about 25-35 a day, depending on how much formatting and spelling correction is required. I have gone from going slowly to make sure I haven’t made any mistakes, to “wow, look how fast I am getting!”, to “When will it be over, already!”

By now I have it down to a routine – edit and format the actual content of the page, save it with a very long and descriptive SEO-friendly filename, then add it to the PHP file that will call it to the location it needs to be in on the main page, save that file, add it to the menu file and save that file, test it in Firefox and IE, then on to the next…

When I got back from lunch I found everyone in a fluster – we have a virus on the loose. So the whole remainder of the day was spent trying to get rid of this virus that appeared out of nowhere. We can’t figure out how it got in, whose machine started it, etc, etc, and I really can’t see that it matters all that much – what we need to concentrate on is GETTING RID OF IT!!!

I didn’t go in to work today – my husband was feeling unwell and I stayed home with him. I think it’s just stress – he needs to find a new contract soon, or I need to get a job, because right now we are the opposite of DINK -(Double-Income-No-Kids) – we are NICAK (No- Income-College-Age-Kid)!

I did have the files I needed on my laptop, since I have been working on it as well as the computer in the office, so I did about 13 or 14 pages to take in tomorrow. Better than nothing.

SO today I continued on with the pages – there are going to be 246 or so in all, so I have my work cut out.

I have made a template so it is going somewhat faster, but each page has to have the content text copied into it, in the appropriate tags so the CSS styling will be effective, and then the filename has to be co-ordinated into a menu include file and a contents div include file. LOTS of copy-and-paste!

This afternoon I started on the second batch of pages, these are to appear in the same location on the screen, but from a different parent page and under a different ID, and now they don’t seem to be loading properly. I am absolutely perplexed by this – I’ve checked the code 87 ways to Sunday and it seems to be all correct – I wonder what I’ve overlooked?

I guess I’ll work on it tomorrow until I get it right.

This is going to be a short post -

Today I made 21 pages for the interior content of a site we are working on.

That’s it!