What's Up at Mindful Webworks

Today, I declared the Blog-Heap o'Links as inactive, in the front-page album menu and on the header for the Blog-Heap pages. :(

The Blog-Heap, already neglected when Mindful made the transition to the dynamic version of the website, never really caught up. I have some ideas for reviving it, sometime, if possible.

Also, I remembered once again that I have this whatzup page. So here's this.

Still working on keeping all the plates spinning at once. Transport Future has also been idle for too long.

I have been doing a lot of behind-the-scenes website maintenance. Still transitioning to dynamic, really, and made some good improvements lately. None of which should be evident to the casual websurfer. But it helps.

• It was brought to my attention (h/t Jack) that there were some little things not showing up to the general public, but looked right to us: the newly-created "previous" and "next" button thumbnail images, the last/next pointing images, and, oh my! all the embedded playlists! The webmaster really got chewed out for that one. Now fixed. Crazymaking kind of thing, leaves us wondering what else don't we know about that hasn't been showing up right for who knows how long?
• Tidied up the css a little bit, not that anyone should notice if it worked right, but still a lot of cleaning up needed. A work in progress.
• Working on a new cartoon series, starting in February.

• Finished cleaning up and checking links on all the UB Comix pages.
• All Radical Incline pages have been decorated with next- and previous-page buttons. Also many minor styling adjustments.

• Worked on both the hi- and lo-res versions of UB Comix #7: Mysteries of Sevens. Apparently, I had already upgraded the UB links on these pages. There were two bad links, now fixed. The link to Bible Gateway caused the framed versions to quit working, so that one link opens in a separate tab. Added the new pagers to #7 hi-res.

• Updated and checked UB Comix #8.

• Added the new pager and fixed some elements of all the rest of the UB Comix. Some behind-the-scenes work left on #9 through #11, and links to be checked, but basic appearances are final.

• Continuing to upgrade the UB Comix. Updated the pager, checked links, and generally cleaned and tidied up issues #5 and 6.

• Working on UB Comix — re-working the last and next buttons, attaching images properly (that's inside tech talk for I did it wrong the first time), cleaning up peripheral information, and verifying links. Managed to get through #1, #2, and Spirit Contact and Dreams, just the higher-resolution versions, and #3 & #4.

• Created a unifying menu and look for all the various tags pages, like Subjects.

• Revamped the End of the Road pages. New, larger, color scan on the title panel. New greyscale (replacing monochrome) panels #2 and #3. All panels stripped of Daily Doodles birthmarks, text, border, and signatures. Altogether, makes the page considerably less cluttered and the comic story more readable. At least, that's the idea.

• Created a new front-page view for Head Shop, and began moving all HS front-page links to the new view; I may have missed a few. The longstanding old page has been legacied for now. That means, nothing was done to it, but bookmark the new page.

• Modified All Subjects so hover text now includes the subject's description, and parent term, if any.
• Modified All Media to better (I hope) display the results.
• Added All Sources of media for all the playlists.
• Added All Tags commingling Subjects, Sources, and Blog Headers.

Subject pages are not forever. I mean, most of them are. But now and then I will go through the Subjects and make some changes. So, bookmark them or subscribe to them if you like, but be aware they may be changed or retired. For example:
• Changed articles with Subject:figure to figures, and deleted figure. URL mindfulwebworks.com/subject/figure is retired.
• Changed articles with Subject:cars to automobiles and deleted cars.
Also,
• Playlists have been modified. There is a new "Sources" tag list. Sources (e.g. "Scott Ott") had been included in, and are gradually being removed from, the Subjects.
• As of yesterday, all the Radical Incline Playlists have been converted to include the Sources tag.

6:40pm
• Finished changing the Short and Tall Tales Playlists to include the Sources tag.

A long-overdue improvement of the CMS search results content and style. Still needs some work, but most pages now show up with an approximately good summary appearance. I hope.

Meanwhile, over a year later, I discover I had a log for Mindful. It's been a very busy year, too much happened to list. I have just been through a huge overhaul of the website, fixing a lot of things that I've learned to do better since I first set out to "dynamize" the site. Lots of corrections, clean-up, and improvements to sections, styles, and navigation. Hope it helps.

Second Life converted to dynamic. Created basic page to replace home, with a sidebar listing projects.
Funnies page given new dynamic page, new URL, newly using iframes. (Found an iframes tutorial.)
This completes all the content transfer except the Blog Heap, which is a whole 'nother project.
And all the old home pages.

End of the Road mini-comics, one 40-pager and five-issue series, converted to dynamic.
Also converted:
Print Mindful Mini-Comics
Paypal payment cancelled
Paypal thanks
Nothing points to these pages anymore anyway, so they're currently retired
/urantiana/ubcomix/paypal-cancel.html
/urantiana/ubcomix/paypal-thanks.html
/headshop/paypal-cancel.html
/headshop/paypal-thanks.html

• Replaced with view and separate record entries, including records from Herding /whats-up.html
• Retired: best-of-spirits/best-of-spirits-template.html
• Changed to redirect: best-of-spirits/gave-my-life-away-2.html
• It's a re-direct. No action. best-of-spirits/everything-flows.html