Friday, September 01, 2006
This has been a work in progress for the better part of the past couple of weeks. When I moved the captmondo.com to a new Web host (because the previous one I had used, WebRaided, went belly-up), I found that they offered scads of drive space, more than I could easily think of ways to fill.
On a whim I decided to see if the domain miscellaneous-s.com was taken. It wasn't, and ordering it for a year was only $10 U.S., so I picked it up and attached it to the CM site as a sub-domain.
I found a free CSS template I liked from AndreasViklund.com, modified it to suit my tastes, and started ripping my old "S" CDs into 128kbps MP3 files for download. I found the files that comprised the old site (which Toby Steel had previously hosted, and that I put originally together, some of the pages at least a decade old), salvaged what was still useful in terms of text and images, and started compiling things using the new template. Things came together surprisingly quickly, and I found some old pics and doc files that had never been used on the old Web site to expand things further. Spent the better part of an evening finding and compiling information on Alan Wright and Toby Steel, two band-members who both died in the summer of 2004. I intend to ad more, but am satisfied with the start I've made to what amounts to an online memorial to them both.
Earlier in the week I contacted the surviving members of the band and solicited their comments and input. Thankfully everybody approved of the project, with Ian submitting a story about doing the Peterborough concert, Pierre sending a piece on his remembrances of the "Big V" concert (one I will always regret not having performed at), and Bryce emailed the classic text for the "press release" announcing the official launch of the site.
The end result is very satisfying. Bill remarked that its likely audience is probably limited to just the band members and few else besides, but I can live with that. The "S" was always about silly fun, and this qualifies.
Labels: captmondo.com, CSS, Miscellaneous "S", MP3, WebRaided
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