What I thought was going to take several weeks of work, maybe a month or more, manually restoring my blog images and broken links one by one now has been drastically reduced to a much more manageable project.
My sweetheart, Lisa, is the absolute Bomb, and today her inner geek came through like a champion–with, I might add, considerable patience and supportiveness for technically challenged me. That combination of her knowledge, helpfulness, and gracious attitude has made a huge difference today, on a morning when I woke up feeling depressed about life in general and Stormhorn.com in particular.
I still have my work cut out for me, but the amount of it has been reduced astronomically, and a big, biiiig, what appeared to be majorly headachy part of it is already taken care of with the complete reinstatement of my NexGen image galleries and a simple correction that has fixed a bazillion broken internal links just like that. Within a few hours this morning, this site has gone from a basket case to well on the road to recovery.
On the reader side, though, Stormhorn.com may still appear to be pathetically busted. You still can’t access most of the images, whether solo transcriptions and jazz patterns or radar grabs and weather maps. You may notice that I’ve even removed my CopyFox page from public view. I mean, who’s going to hire a copywriter whose own business site resembles the victim of a shark attack?
Relax, though. I can say, with confidence and a good deal of relief, that everything will be back soon and once again chugging merrily along.
Here’s What Needs to Be Done
I need to reorganize my NexGen image gallery, which won’t take terribly long. Then I need to go into my posts and pages, one by one, and replace bad image links with good ones. That will takes some time, but you should start seeing the beginnings of the restoration today. I’ll be starting with my most recent posts and working back from there into my older posts until everything is as it should be.
Some other, less pressing details also need attention, but all in good time. What I’ve described above is my first priority. It’s now largely a matter of grunt work, but as I’ve said, the workload has been greatly reduced and I feel far better about things than I did last night.
Thanks so much for your help, Lis! You’re awesome, babe!
ADDENDUM: Yes, I Know That Lots of the Images Are Wrong!
Again, I’ve got some messed-up links to correct. So if you find yourself looking at a weather map where a musical exercise ought to be, take it in stride. It’ll all get sorted out in due time.
