I have been working hard but I do not expect you noticed
Archive - Originally posted on "The Horse's Mouth" - 2008-09-14 18:17:35 - Graham Ellis
I spent all of yesterday working very hard on web site updates - to THIS site - and I don't expect you'll have noticed anything different about it so far today as you browse. Am I depressed about that? No - it's as I intended it to be - but then WHY make changes?
We now have over 10,000 (yes, ten thousand) different URLs here which are searchable. Of course, they're not all individual pages as many of them are Content Managed via the Blog, the Forum, the Wiki, the Library and the Training Examples System. Most content changes are subtle and well hidden, and "look and feel" changes are just a few pixels here and there. But necessary web site development and maintainance, none the less.
Some samples of updates (can you spot what has changed on these pages?) ... [Link] General Subject Introductions [Link] Quiz Pages [Link] Programming questions - try your knowledge [Link] All about our searches [Link] A landing page for external links [Link] Popular searches to bring people to our pages [Link] Our Library of over 700 books ... [Link] ... individual books subjects [Link] ... individual books [Link] Author list ... [Link] ... and details of individual authors [Link] Horse's Mouth Archive pages [Link] Wiki shared data pages [Link] Longer Technical articles in our solution centre There are even gentle changes on the home page![Link]
Looking back at my title, I come across rather like Marvin the Paranoid Android from Douglas Adam's HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy (with perhaps a bit of Victor Meldrew thrown in!). For sure, this sort of thing is a Herculean task - but it's a necessary one and I get a kind of strange satisfaction from doing it.