Moving out some of the web site bloat

For 2023 (and 2024 ...) - we are now fully retired from IT training.
We have made many, many friends over 25 years of teaching about Python, Tcl, Perl, PHP, Lua, Java, C and C++ - and MySQL, Linux and Solaris/SunOS too. Our training notes are now very much out of date, but due to upward compatability most of our examples remain operational and even relevant ad you are welcome to make us if them "as seen" and at your own risk.

Lisa and I (Graham) now live in what was our training centre in Melksham - happy to meet with former delegates here - but do check ahead before coming round. We are far from inactive - rather, enjoying the times that we are retired but still healthy enough in mind and body to be active!

I am also active in many other area and still look after a lot of web sites - you can find an index ((here))

A late-night post ... the weekend has slipped away from us with a huge variety of things to catch up on, and a major new project on our web site. The update that we brought in over the new year has been working reasonably, but has been showing signs of "bloat" - too much, too complex to the detriment of the site from a customer perspective. So much of the weekend was spent cleaning and simplifying templates, and I'm hoping that pages uploaded over the next week or two will be cleaner, more navigable, will make better use of the available screen estate for real content ... and will be all together a more pleasant experience.

We're a small team, each will our own role in the company that only has the website as a small part of the total. Browser-specific adjustments that must all interact through the site would be all well and good with a big team (and perhaps necessary if we were in a highly competitive market with online selling and look making a huge impact) but there are other ways - "KISS" or Keep it Simple, Stupid ... which I think was the story of an earlier blog. My target for the update should be that you can find things like that earlier KISS post with great ease, view it nicely and print it out.
(written 2007-04-29, updated 2007-04-30)

Associated topics are indexed as below, or enter http://melksh.am/nnnn for individual articles

W501 - Introduction to Web Site Structure
  [332] Looking up IP addresses - (2005-06-01)
  [528] Getting favicon to work - avoiding common pitfalls - (2005-12-14)
  [1024] Web site - a refresh to improve navigation - (2007-01-07)
  [1031] robots.txt - a clue to hidden pages? - (2007-01-13)
  [1176] A pu that got me into trouble - (2007-05-04)
  [1198] From Web to Web 2 - (2007-05-21)
  [1431] Getting the community on line - some basics - (2007-11-13)
  [1636] What to do if the Home Page is missing - (2008-05-08)
  [1686] FTP - how not to corrupt data (binary v ascii) - (2008-06-24)
  [1969] Search Engines. Getting the right pages seen. - (2009-01-01)
  [2094] If you have a spelling mistake in your URL / page name - (2009-03-21)
  [2214] Global Index to help you find resources - (2009-06-01)
  [2282] Checking robots.txt from Python - (2009-07-12)
  [2552] Web site traffic - real users, or just noise? - (2009-12-26)

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