The change over to the new server seems to be going well, worked out the glitches with the original transfer of the files and the database, still seems to be about a 50/50 crap shoot as to which version of the pages come up whenever I open a browser, but hopefully everything will be pointing to these new pages soon.

I changed part of the header text so that the basic information is in a three column format rather than being in three rows.  I think that makes it stand out a little better from the regular posts. The only problem I can foresee with it would be on low resolution monitors, but it seemed to be fairly readable to me with the testing I did.

I also changed the menus in the sidebar to sort by a page order that I can assign rather than having them come up alphabetically. This was particularly helpful in being able to have the ICE Products side menu come up in the order I like. I’ll probably keep juggling some of the other menu items around until I have everything where I want it.

I’ve started moving the RMSS vs RMFRP article pages into proper Wordpress pages. Unfortunately the source code for my original pages had a lot of hard line breaks which html and regular php pages ignored quite nicely but Wordpress is abit fussier so I’m having to make sure I have those straightened out before I copy them in. I also need to update all the links for the images and to other pages, so if you notice a missing picture or there is a link that doesn’t work, please let me know.
Three pages down, eighteen to go!

I’ve just made the move to a different host for this Website, and that included moving to newer versions of MySql and PHP. Overall this is good news for me, the bad news is that some of the functions for parts of the site are temporarily broken and I’ll need to get them fixed up. Hopefully that will go quickly and everything will be up and running properly in a day or two.

As a first step to making some adjustments to the way this site looks, I did a cleanup and reorganization of the main style sheet that I’m using, which of course could lead to some strange things occurring. I think I did manage to fix the odd problem with the side menu where it would display in slightly different fonts depending which page you were on.

If anyone does notice anything really strange, or just has any suggestions on improvements that can be made, please add a comment and I’ll see what I can do.

I find that I am more and more enjoying some of the older Sci Fi/Fantasy stories simply because they tell a good tale and don’t require volumes and volumes of pages to do it. I just finished reading “The Tombs of Atuan” by Ursula K. LeGuin, which is the second book in the Earthsea Trilogy. This book is only 146 pages long and I picked it up this afternoon and finished it by bedtime. Compare that to “Memories of Ice” by Steven Erikson, which I also recently started. It weighs in at 1180 pages and chances are by the time I get to the end, I won’t even remember the beginning. So, I’ve put that one aside and I’m going to start reading “The Farthest Shore” which is the third book in the Earthsea Trilogy and it has 197 pages.

It’s not that I don’t enjoy some of the larger books, it just seems that I have less time to devote to reading them and in many cases I feel the stories could just as easily be told in a much shorter span. I’m sure this has as much to do with the demands of the book publishing industry as it is does with the authors. If the Earthsea Trilogy were to be brought for publishing today, would Ursula K. LeGuin be told that there was only enough material for one book, not three, and would she be forced to pad the stories with scads of additional chapters describing in excruciating detail all the aspects of each characters early life, clothing choices and relationships with each other which really needed to tell the tale?