I always knew that sorting out the galleries was going to take a long time. It’s taking even longer than I thought. I’ve decided to provide more ways of categorising the images. Whereas before, it was only possible to break … Read more
When I set about converting all my old gallery code to the new site there was one thing I had completely overlooked. They both used completely separate shopping baskets. This means that if a visitor were to want to buy … Read more
I decided to add a bit of extra functionality to the species list. It is now possible to view and use interactive pie charts that represent the distribution of taxonomic classes and orders of the species in the list. I … Read more
The process of converting the existing galleries to the new website is going pretty well. I’ve made a few visual simplifications which make for cleaner pages. I’ve also started paying a bit more attention to testing than perhaps I did … Read more
I’ve been putting it off long enough. I’ve finally started working on the galleries. I always knew it was going to be a big job to re-write the galleries so that they have all the new functionality I want them … Read more
It seems I spoke too soon when I said in my last post that I was now in a position to carry on making progress with the development of this site again. At the same time that I’m working on … Read more
Following the latest (and hopefully final!) server migration, things were looking good. That was until I started to do some testing of purchasing products, and everything went wrong. To cut a very long story short, a day of progress was … Read more
Since the last entry, I finally managed to get ASP code running again on the Windows server and as a result, managed to get the (still in progress) site back to where it was. That didn’t solve the gallery issue … Read more
Today has been a busy day, but nothing has been achieved. My old website was hosted on a Windows server. It had to be, because about 99% of it was written almost entirely in ASP, with the other 1% being … Read more
SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) is the standard security technology for establishing an encrypted link between a web server and a browser. This link ensures that all data passed between the web server and browsers remain private and integral. SSL is … Read more
