So, as I mentioned a week or two ago, there’s a retroactive change I want to make to the site involving something called search engine optimization (SEO). It’s obscure and boring and possibly make believe but I figured I should make the change to about 5, 500 older posts. But it requires an enormous amount of manual copying and pasting so I wanted to automate it. But the database manipulations I want to make are not routine and I thought required one of two things. Either I have to learn how to program in the PHP and MySQL languages or I had to use two plugins (think of them as small stand-alone programs that can be added to my site’s software). But one of the plugins costs a bunch of money so I was too outraged to pay for it. By a stroke of good fortune, I found a different plug-in that was almost as good but much cheaper. Yeeha!
But with all things too good to be true comes the payoff. I also needed to upgrade my backup system and that’s going to require upgrading my cloud storage. Gack! Well, I’ve spent the bulk of the day setting up a link to my new storage site from the website with all sorts of problems with various layers of security programming standing in the way. Finally, it’s uploading the backup but it’s been a humbling experience. And I’m also getting a lesson in why working with redundantly encrypted data is a royal pain. It uploads at the slowest rate imaginable. But later on, tonight I’ll try to make those SEO modifications to those thousands of old posts. If the site disappears hopefully, it’ll just be a (short) refresh to get it back to its old self. But fingers crossed.
It’s still early in the voting but it looks like maybe some folks would like me to increase the font size on the site from 12 pt to 14 pt. The reason I asked about this was recently I was on a website and noticed how nice the type looked. After checking on the text I realized it was 14 pt and wondered if maybe I was making life difficult for people to read the smaller font size. Luckily that is a very easy fix to make. Even I can make the CSS modification.
Well back to the website salt mines for me. Pray that my sentence is reduced down from life at hard labor.
Signed,
photog the website drudge (not to be confused with Matt Drudge).
As I passed my seventh decade, I noticed that I was using the “ZOOM-IN” command more often than I used to. That Biddie, Old Age catches up with all of us eventually. Even Thor could barely hold his own with her. A slightly large font would definitely be a good thing.
I’ve just added the code to bump it up to about 14 pt (or 20 px as the code specifies). Hopefully that will be easier on the eyes. Here at OCF we aim to please!