is a lot smaller than it used to be. This means a LOT of broken links which I am attempting to find, fix and future-proof.
First up is getting any requests for all names to work both via clog tags and if linked or used elsewhere for example in Shane's World articles. Here's a full list of what should work once I am done.
So, I got a way into the cory renaming thing and, with a lot of help (thanks, @Bekateen), the names are all up to date. However, what this, and poor site performance, led me to find out is how we handle images is out of date. Any not very efficient either.
Written by @Rusty Lalkaka late in the last millennium, the function that handles images, dynamically caches, makes thumbnails and puts our watermark on things, is a core piece of site infrastructure.
Mostly due to my meddling with it over the years, it had become a legacy monster. So, time has come to stop using it and bring in new Object Orientated /class-based (i.e. best practice) functionality that perform the image functions. It has been back to school for Jools! I've been at this for six weeks at the time or writing. Just wanted to mention it here as I've not done a lot else on the site except this.
Happily, however, I have a shiny new, and much better than before development and test environment where I can build this away from the public eye and launch it in one go, hopefully in a week or two.
Cheers,
Jools
PS I now have four fishtanks, two outdoor tubs and a decent pond up and running - say hello to Sir Isaac, recently found in the pond.
