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Services Page
At the moment, I am debating whether or not I should set up a ‘Services’ page to detail some of the services that I have to offer.
I have been talking to a few people who have little to no idea of what it is that I do, and who have visited my site, and most of the questions I get about it are detailing what I am able to do in regards to websites, etc.
Now, I realize that a number of people who might happen by are going to know what they’re talking about and looking for; but I also believe that a huge number of potential clients out there aren’t going to know all of the details of what they’re going to need for a website, and what they would be able to get me to do.
I am not sure, as yet, how I will work this page into my site, but I think that I will end up posting one.
New Images
I’m sure that at least some of you have noticed by this point that recently I’ve been changing around the little “pagemark” images that spice up my site’s pages. Well, I was recently able to get my hands on a few new landscape images, and decided to change things up a little.
It’s always a good idea to keep things as new as you possibly can. Old material gets boring very quickly. Especially on the internet. So, even if it’s just a little graphic change, or a post about “what’s new”, it’s worth putting out there, to help keep people interested in your site and your content.
Site Update System
As metnioned previously, I’ve created a site updating “system”; perhaps better called a “method.” It involves having an offsite copy of my site’s source code which can be zipped up and uploaded via FTP to my live server. Once done, that file is then extracted, filling in the contents of my test server. Uploading the complete offline code to a live test server gives me the opportunity to check and make sure that any changes I have made offline will work once they hit the live server.
After I’ve got everything tested and ready to go, all I have to do is go and ‘flick the switch’, swapping out the live site’s content with the test site’s, and call it almost finished.
Up until now, I’ve had a problem at this point with WordPress’s caching system, or what I thought was a problem with WordPress’s caching system. My temporary solution for the problem was to go in and re-post one of my WordPress Pages, causing the whole cache to be rebuilt.
What I didn’t realize at the time was that it’s not the cache that’s been messing me up, but rather a missing .htaccess file that was causing WordPress to throw 404 File Not Found errors at me, whenever I did a site upgrade and tried to access anything through a WordPress PermaLink.
I am happy to say that that’s now been fixed. :) The appropriate .htaccess file is now copied over during the site-swap.
So it’s good news! Going forward, anytime I do a site upgrade or update, if you happen to be surfing through my site’s content, you won’t run into a mysterious File Not Found (404) error. (Or I certainly hope you don’t.) At the very least, you won’t run into them as a result of this problem. :)
Python Apps 4 Free
I’ve had it posted on my Rate Card for quite a while now that I’m doing PRO BONO (Free) work in regards to Python-based applications. Well, I still am! :) At the present moment, I am very new to Python (very new), and as such, I’m doing free work for anyone out there who feels like asking.
Why does this make sense? Well, it gives me the opportunity to challenge myself, to see what I can do with this programming language, and it gives somebody an application for free! So, if you’re interested in taking advantage of this, I suggest you drop me a line. My contact information is readily available here, or you can e-mail me at email@chrisbraybrook.com
Rates & Quotes Update
It occurred to me that, as I am based in Canada, and my hourly rate is set in Canadian dollars, that I should post it in American dollars as well. :) Thus, I have done so. See Rates & Quotes for the nitty-gritty details.
