The new site looks lovely, and aside from a few redirects that got overlooked in the haste to get a move on before the “old” site was closed down (we were down to the wire…), it’s going great. Plus nobody’s pacemaker will stop if a link doesn’t work until late morning tomorrow. I had one […]
So here I sit in my tattered green bathrobe I adore because Sandy bought it for me one Christmas. I am gearing up to move MPOW to its new home. Today. The big day. Final testing. Final tweaking. Wurra-wurra. What can be tabled til we go live? What’s mission-critical? What about those stray tags mysteriously […]
Those are the days, approximately, we’ve been in this migration for MPOW. Sort of like being 100 months pregnant. Or a 4,000-year mortgage. The new site looks so luverly, though I’m not linking to it anymore because the test server itself is moving early next week in a complicated maneuver I won’t explain. I am […]
Just so you know, we disabled search yesterday on the new MPOW so we could work on it and get the last features in place. You might be able to do an “or” search (it’s the only search that works), but aside from that, search is currently out of commission on the development site. Consider […]
Someone from ip address 152.15.100.8 sent an anonymous message referring to my previous post by saying “what a tremendous waste of taxpayer dollars.” First, don’t be such a coward: sign your name. Second, not a nickel has been misspent from the very tiny pot of money we have had available to upgrade our site. In […]
This is more mutterings about search engines and improving MPOW, inspired by a day of grant-writing. (The grant is due at the fiscal agent next Tuesday.) Some of you newer to this blog may have missed my fevered descriptions of how to improve search in a content-sparse metadata database such as MPOW. As I mapped […]
It is an exhausting week for both work and school; gave a talk about My Place Of Work in Burbank Tuesday, turned in another essay yesterday, did the publishing-morning thing today, and have a talk at Oakland PL tomorrow. But I had a Moment of Zen at Tuesday’s talk in Burbank worth sharing. During break, […]
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(N.b. This piece was victimized by a publication date that made it invisible to those who read the blog through the site. So I munged the pub date. Bon appetit!) We had usability testing done on the forthcoming new website for MPOW (My [thinly-disguised] Place Of Work), using real subjects representing a range of people […]