Had another long, bad day at work, and the weather isn’t helping.  Thunderstorm hell forcing me to shut down the computer quite often.

Despite that, I managed to get a little bit more written on Lowborn 07 tonight.  Nothing much, but I just about have my characters to the place where my next major scene takes place.

Worked a bit on the legalese page for the website as well ( copyright, privacy, terms of use, 2257 exempt, etc. )

Now, I’m going to try to get some sleep so I’ll possibly be in better shape to write tomorrow.

Had a possible idea for a Nude Day story as Dark in my fantasy world today.  It would be an “other dark” story right now, as it jumps to after SOTM, starring Mindblind and Christi’s oldest son ( of legal age to do anything sexual on Lit in that timeframe)

Could eventually become part of a Nobles Next Generation series, but I have enough on my plate as it is.  For now, if it comes out, it will be a one-shot story.

If I didn’t screw anything up, all the pages should now be running on the reduced style files, and all tables are eliminated from the code.  The next clean-up process will be removing all of the [br] tags, as they’re apparently frowned upon by modern standards.

Believe I need to go through and fix anything inside a div that’s just text ( no img, p, etc. tag )  Pretty sure I saw that pop up in the last “evaluate your code” thing I ran website pages through.

Doing that also reminded me that I need to add WxH dimensions to the latest releases database, in order to add those to the front page.  Also need to add that to the little quill and trophy icons on the “My Work” page.  There, at least, it’s a simple matter of adding them to two lines of code.

Pretty beat tonight.  Long, lousy day at work.  Might try to write a little anyway, as the young one appears to be winding down.  It will all depend upon whether I can close my eyes and visualize without nodding off if he does go down for the night.

Need to add a privacy policy to the bottom of my pages as well, since the forum and a couple of other things do gather information.  It’s standard browser/resolution/etc. stuff, but I can use that link to reiterate that I don’t sell or otherwise divulge any such information to any third party.  It’s simply for the purpose of making the website conform to the norm of visitors, then account for the outsiders as best as possible.  Should be able to put it in the footer without too much trouble, I believe.

Just peeked, and the young one is indeed in bed.  I’ll give it a half hour or so to make sure he’s out enough to turn off the television without him waking up on me, and then see if I’m coherent enough to write.

Looks like everything is up and working properly again.  Why it is:  That’s the question.  I didn’t do anything, and the problem had resolved itself before the webhost got around to the ticket.

*shrug*  I suppose it may be a result of screwed up queries when I was finishing the newsletter page.  Perhaps when the backend of the site did some optimization tasks, it cleared up the gunk in the database.

Anyway, I did a little optimization of my own.  I started trimming down my style sheets based upon various types of pages.  I removed all the elements for the front page and the My Work page from everywhere else, cutting the size down to about half.  Trimming the front page stuff off My Work helped a little, and likewise trimming the My Work stuff off the front page helped it a little more.

Found a few things that need correcting to get up to current web standards, as well.  Fixed a couple of tags that weren’t properly closed under the existing standards, and made note of some other evaluations.  Now that I have different style sheets for various pages, getting rid of a lot of waste, I’m going to eliminate some legacy coding and get that put into the style sheets as well.

Pages that will be affected by this will be the Work Extras: Story Codes and Danica Timeline pages.  Those are using tables, and giving them style divs should bring them up to standards.  I hadn’t done it up to this point because of conflict issues with elements unused by those pages.  I’ll use the basic file I have now ( which doesn’t include those conflicting elements ) and create a style sheet for those two pages to share.

I’ve got a few other things I can do to speed up the page loads as well.  This will be important when I finalize the front page, as I’ll be adding a new widget that queries the database there.  Need to keep it at least where it is, or hopefully speed it up.  Initial loads should already be less due to the smaller style sheet.

Still need a beta tester(s) for the newsletter page, if anybody’s interested.

I’m going to try to get some writing done on Lowborn after I take a little break.  The environment at the moment isn’t the best, but I haven’t done much writing in a while, and it’s really bugging me.

Edit ( a little later ):  There we go 🙂  Lowborn 07 is up to about the halfway mark.  I’ve got a little bit of character development/sex to write ( yes, that development slash sex *laugh* ), then the setup for the final chapter.

Posted a teaser excerpt of Ch. 01 on the forum.