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
Monday, August 07, 2006
As you can see, the captmondo.com site is back up and running, now run off of Bluehost's server. All of the text content comes off of Blogger, so there was little chance that the reams and reams of text would be lost. But it appears as though the last time I did a backup of my image files from the site was at the end of last year, so other than in the past few entries and prior to January 2006, there are no images. Something I hope to take care of over time, if only for my own benefit (and as a constant reminder to backup)...
Late last night I launched Erika's professional location sound recording site, which can be seen at: esrproductionsound.com. Not exactly what I would call a "wordy" site at the moment, as more text content needs to be added to flesh things out, but it certainly looks good and professional, which was the goal.
One of the unexpected benefits of moving to Bluehost from the now-dead Web Raided is the vast increase in server space I have allotted to me, which is on the order of 15GB's(!) worth of space. So I have restored the frantics.org site under the /frantics directory under this site. Bluehost allows domain parking, which means I should be able to redirect the domain to that folder. While I was at it, I have also restored the old Miscellaneous S site. It is sorely in need of an overhaul, and many of the pages go back to the early days of the Web in the mid-90s. I would like to add a tribute page to both Toby Steel and to Alan Wright to the site, and maybe even cobble together a place where people can download music samples and perhaps even buy albums.
Much work still to be done. At least it's fun work. ;-)
Labels: BlueHost, captmondo.com, esrproductionsound.com, frantics.org, Miscellaneous "S"
Thursday, August 03, 2006
If you are reading this, the storm has passed, so to speak.
Erika told me soon after I got back from work that her email was down, and that the captmondo.com Web site was down too. So I went online to see what was up. I then discovered that WebRaided's (my Web hosting firm) Web site was also down. Odd. Must be a bad problem if their own Web site is down. So I Google-d for their main telephone line, and gave them a call, expecting to hear an automated message saying when they expect to be back up.
Instead, I got a message saying that the number has been disconnected and was no longer in service.
Uh oh....
So WebRaided appears to be dead. I check my previous emails but there was nothing there saying that this might happen (but my over-eager spam filters might have disposed of any such messages, and I had cleaned out my junk email folder late last week). So I am without a host for several Web sites: captmondo.com, frantics.org, and magicomusic.com (the last I run for a friend of Erika's). More important than my blog or the other sites is the fact that Erika's email is down, which she uses for her work.
The last site I set up, chateauvolterra.com, is hosted by BlueHost Web hosting in the States. I went with them when WebRaided said that they were unable to handle a simple domain transfer. So I went online and bought a year's Web space for captmondo.com, and went digging through my emails to figure out who I had registered the domain name with so that I could transfer it properly.
I also picked up esrproductionsound.com for Erika, since she really ought to have a promotional Web site for her business, along with a more business-sounding email address.
I am hoping I will be able to transfer the frantics.org and magicomusic.com sites to subdirectories of the main Web sites I now have with BlueHost.
I had been planning to work on the chateauvolterra.com site over the long weekend. Guess I'll be doing a lot more Web Admin work than I had originally planned...
Labels: BlueHost, captmondo.com, chateauvolterra.com, esrproductionsound.com, frantics.org, magicomusic.com, WebRaided
Friday, February 23, 2001
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