[Helpers] some question and report for the work it's been done.

Tue Apr 19 20:26:32 PDT 2005

At 02:56 PM 4/19/2005, Sachiko M wrote:
>>>I have now checked the k-teacher files, I am concern how the
>>>FST site is build. Some of the K-teacher file needed major clean
>>>up.
>>
>>   Really? Like what?
>
>The coding was little cofusing over all. There were some unclosed tag
>that was hard to figure out where exactly needs to be closed.
>
>I think I'll run the clean up for entire FST site and organize the tag. At
>least close those unclosed tag and re-organize the tag that are swiched
>around.

   Will that change the line breaks?

    I sorta think it is a waste of time to fix the old version of the FST 
site, better to work on getting the redesigned one online.

   The work in progress is here:
http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/
unfinished new index page
http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/index1.html

  I password protected the whole folder so it won't get googled, etc. and 
set it so default indexes are available so everyone can see what files are 
in a folder.

username:  helpers
password:  thankyou

   I also discovered the page takes bloody forever to load... sigh.  I 
thought there might be a problem with having all those mouseovers for the 
navtable... They may yet be discarded. I hate to trash them, they were a 
bloody lot of work to make! LOL~~!

   It is a mess, partly because some pages are not finished and also 
because I uploaded all my reference files too, like Xenu reports, and 
little pages where I tested tables, navlinks, etc. There are also two 
versions of every file, because ... well... I have been updating pages 
randomly in the past, and I am not sure if both versions of a page are the 
same, or one is better.

    There is a small task you could do... delete the notices of my being 
away for a week, from the email or contact pages of K-teacher, 
fireserpentc, and fire-serpent.org/healing.

    Domin8rex.com is with a different host, who also hosts the videos for FST.

   When the site is 99% done, the last task is to make the repeated stuff 
like the mouseover array into SSI.

>I'm not clear about the stylesheet setting that I'll list up laterif I coudn't
>figure it out myself.

   The old site didn't have one, it was designed in 1999, before I learned 
how to use them. The new site has a fancy one.
    The stylesheet you are probably seeing, is for the ecard pages... or 
you are seeing the stylesheet for the update.

   The new preview will have two new free lessons.

>>>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>1. Changed the phpChat deleting time.
>>>Chat log: 3hours to 24hours
>>
>>   Hmm, the reason why I set it at three hours was for discretion with 
>> private professional sessions, so the content would not linger for 
>> others to read...
>>    but thinking about it, I usually use a private chatroom for those 
>> anyhow, and I have learned how to clean rooms... so no prob!
>>   Besides, it is neat for me to peek occasionally and see if anyone has 
>> been there.
>
>I can change it to any hour you like, just let me know!

   Leave it, it is good! Thank you.

>>>2. Fix the broken link at K-teacher meditation.html. Following
>>>links are now working.
>>>initiation, guidance, lessons, classes, appointment, contact, links
>>
>>   They were broken?? How did that happen? Odd.
>
>One file had link lefted as ".html"

   Yeah, I think every page had that one. A placeholder. I do not recall 
what it was supposed to be, or whether it was just a leftover.

>Another file had link like this "initiation/initiation.html"
>when it's supposed be "../initiation/initiation.html"

   yup, those are the sort of errors I tend to overlook.

>>>4.  Cleaned up elist.html, lessons.html,
>>>Had some broken link.
>>
>>   Were you just removing links to pages not yet complete, or what?
>
>There actually was some internal link that wasn't working needed to
>be fixed. Nothing major.

   Cool! Some of the not working links are just pages not done yet. Better 
to leave them, and make a things to do list of what pages need to be 
created, that they link to.

>>>5. Cleaned up meditation/grounding.html
>>
>>
>>   So Sachiko, this is not about you, thank you for your work.
>
>I don't take it personal. I think I do understand the feelings to having other
>people work on your stuff that you have been working on your own.

   oh yes. My body is still freaking a bit, but it is something I just have 
to get over. It limits me, and my work far too much.

>I can see that on your file that you have worked hard and woked on your own.
>It's funny how personality shows on the design especially on coding. I guess I
>am computer geek... lol

   Heh, I wonder what you read from my coding? Love and impatience, 
probably... :)
    druid is amazed at how I will spend hours minutely tweaking table data 
sizes and spacer.gifs to get everything perfectly seamless and lined up the 
way I want.

     I check my tables with netscape, it is more strict than iexplore.

   Here is my webdesign pattern:  an analysis of ADD.  I start out with an 
ambitious plan, that grows as I work on it... and usually I work on it 
16-20 hours a day for weeks or a month, doing nothing else, hardly eating 
or sleeping, or bathing or cleaning my house... completely focused, kind of 
cranky if anything tries to distract me.  People who try to work with me 
when I am in that state, find me tiring, and cannot keep up.

   Then somewhere between 75-95% completed, (Depending on how ambitious my 
plan was to start with) my attention span burns out and when it is gone it 
is gone, I often cannot go near the site again, for a year or more. Stuff 
most often left behind is boring like spellchecking, and updating links 
pages... plus usually there are a few 404 errors of pages never finished. 
Some have "under construction" blank files and some are just absent.

    Thus, having Hillary do the smaller site updates on K-gateway as needed 
has been a real blessing, because I get scared to try to do small things. 
Sometimes I have gone in to fix something small and found many more 
mistakes, and not come out again till it is 3 weeks later and the whole 
thing is redesigned, and everything else in my life has fallen 
behind...  or, trying to avoid that, I just don't do anything at all!

   With K-teacher, I actually created the whole thing in a month, but about 
1/3 of the content was lifted from the Kundalini section of domin8rex.com. 
Some was grabbed from FST or my email archives, but an awful lot of it was 
written fresh.
   I got stuck on the chakra pages because it required research.. I have 
never learned all the sanskrit names for the chakras, etc. and websurfing 
to find the info was not my focus.... and because isolating the chakras to 
be specific, is hard!!

   Hillary looked up the sanskrit names, numbers, sounds and mantras for 
me, later and also found stuff I had written about the chakras to the 
K-list...
   I have it in my email archives somewhere. As the book is being taken 
from K-teacher, I'm writing the chakra pages there and will transfer 
pertinent info to the web later.
    Book and FST update is priority right now... for me, at least.

> From now on, you'll be having people who can help you with the web site.

   Wow, that is beautiful. :) :)

>When
>more than one person work on same page (or site), we a lot of time do need to
>coding in a way so that others can understand too.

   Yes. some pages on other sites are designed like that, but FST and 
K-teacher are not. Look at the code for the site I worked on most recently, 
www.kundalinsupportnetwork.com and you will see lots of comment tags so 
Susan's helpers can understand. Mind you, one of her helpers also totally 
messed up the structure of the site and did not even know enough not to 
link images to his hard drive;.. but that is no longer my problem. :)

>So, there will be major
>organizig in coding. The page still look exactly the same if not better. ; )

   Good! So long as the code is consistent between pages!

 >I can always replace any  file on FST and k-teacher with the original
>file that I backup before I did anything, so let me know.

   Cool. I keep backups, too...

  I have an odd convention of not naming working index files as 
index.html... because I tend to get confused and upload them to the wrong 
folder, saving over the correct version. I either redirect them with a 0 
time meta file, or name them for the folder and set them as index default 
in htaccess.

   For the Kundalini-gateway, files in a folder have a prefix to keep them 
straight, and we rename the index files from something like (a_index.html 
for the awakening folder) after they are uploaded, and the old index has 
been also been renamed a_indexold3.html and preserved.
   FST has a simpler tree structure, and with the new design, all the title 
images will be in the title folder in the main directory, instead of having 
a second titles folder in the tantra directory.

>I'll be working on clean up of FST later today.
>
>
>TO DEAR SANDRA
>let me know if there was any back and next link broken, since we are
>going to be working on same files, I 'd like to make sure that we are not
>over writing each others work.
>
>
>Sachiko
>
>
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