transfering the templateRe: [Helpers] FST links - Round 1

[Mystress Angelique Serpent]

At 05:27 PM 5/3/2005, you wrote:

>----- Original Message ----- From: "Mystress Angelique Serpent" 
><Mystress at fire-serpent.com>
>To: <Helpers at fire-serpent.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 1:52 PM
>Subject: Re: [Helpers] FST links - Round 1
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>>   Well, I was thinking about that, today... Sachiko felt it was better 
>> to make a new template, but has not defined how to get the old content, 
>> into the new template... or if she will do so.
>>
>>   What did you have in mind, Sachiko?
>
>I thought that we can start putting contents once they are ready.
>If the old contents are going to be as it is then I can just copy paste into
>the template as I did for Introduction to Kundalini page.

   If you have patience to do that then you are a better man than me, Gunga 
Din.
   I do it with search and replace because it is easier to plug the 
template in, around the content than to cut and paste and rename... I just 
find the places you made changes and swap them with the old template. Just 
think of the "negative space." The content of the lessons is different, but 
most of the code snippets that falll between content bits, are the same and 
can be swapped out.

   Mind you, I would love to rename all the files so they fall in order of 
lessons in a directory... but it is a scary task... because all the audio 
and ram files would have to be renamed, too...


>I was away from computer for a while though I was going to ask before
>I do anything as I 'm not even sure if you liked the template or not.

   I'm sorry I was not clearer in my approval! I came across a post from 
you I did not respond to before as I was too preoccupied to give hugs... 
:)  I appreciated your polishing it, and how you went the extra mile, 
anticipating what would be needed. Very cool!

   Sorry I got anxious and tried to rein you in! Just stray maternal 
instincts...

   I'm going over your template in more detail now... I see some alignments 
have changed, and I want to add links to the images in the titles header... 
although I cannot think what, just now...  So I will tweak it a little, but 
I can see you have really cleaned things up.

   Thanks for shrinking the images, BTW... I usually do that at the end of 
a project, when I know for sure which ones I am going to use... which means 
I often never get to it! :) Good to have it done.


>>   I am thinking to do as before, search and replace your new template, 
>> piece by piece  into the current new/old lessons. I do not know for 
>> sure, whether that will preserve some of the old errors, but I think I 
>> should be able to discover most of them.
>
>It seems like you have your own way of working on the site. I don't really
>understand your way, but hey this is your site!

    It is just my ADD brain, how I adapt.
   Copying the content into all the different places it belongs in the new 
template and keeping the file renaming straight is too boring of a job for 
me to be able to do well, without messing up or wandering distracted. I'd 
get lost in it.

    Doing it with search and replace is faster, and interesting because it 
is more challenging. I will have to spend some time on each page while 
editing the content, so fixing little bits that got missed in the search 
and replace is ... a few seconds brain break from writing, something to do 
while awaiting Divine inspiration.... preferable instead of hours of 
mindless click click to copy and paste it all..  and easier on the carpal 
tunnel.

    Anyhow, I pulled an all-nighter and it is done.

>>   The javascript for the video and audio links will still have to be 
>> moved by hand... and I'd prefer not to be the one to do it! My ADD 
>> brain... but the lessons can continue to be updated before they get a 
>> final tweaking.
>>
>>I want to compress the code, as well... and make it more helper-friendly 
>>with comment tags... and delete the links box from the lessons in favour 
>>of ...??? What was the thought here? How about a popup window for the off 
>>site links? Can I paste in a link for a popup and we fill in the url later?
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>I think it 's good idea!

   Do you have a code snippet you like to use for that?
  Anybody? I have some archived someplace but I'd have a learning curve to 
conquer, never made them before.

   I'm thinking a box about 450 pixels wide and ? deep. Tidy little window 
that won't get killed by a popup blocker, and lets them keep the lesson 
page open while they surf the links.

   Please give to me the secret code!



>I have my own new web site that I'm trying to finish before July. Untill then
>I'm not sure how much of  time I can offer for this helpers work. I will do
>my best though. That made me think of the dead line of FST site....
>
>When is the dead line for new FST site?

   Ahhh, deadlines. Life is what happens while we are busy making other 
plans...

   I would like to upload pretty new design pages to the live site in 
weeks, or months... then continue to tweak the content in the working 
mirror and swap it into the live site as it is ready.

   My deadline is probably overly ambitious, given that I'm also working on 
the book, and have a Weekend intensive to promote...

   Getting the content into the template, is the first priority... I will 
take a whack at it, because the other helpers need to have a current 
version to work on.

   That, and adapting the new template to the preview...

   Sachiko, would you be able to adapt the preview template and shrink the 
image files for it?
   Many of the preview pages are mostly finished, but they are a slow 
download. The two new preview lessons have not been converted yet... I had 
to finalize the lesson template first. Ah, things to do!

   Thank you for your labours.