MikeBrum.com

Starting sometime next week over the course of a week or two I have some big changes planned. Unfortunately for everyone, I don’t have any aesthetic changes on the board right now. The vast majority of them are going to be getting rid of the .shtml files and replacing all of them with .phtml files where applicable and using .htm files whenever the .phtml files are not needed.

I’m also going to be making some header and footer templates to cut down on access time and redundancy. Right now, I have all of the same information captured for the layout on every page. Let’s say for just 10 pages, that’s a lot of “wasted” web space. While I have a shitload of space available on the server, there’s no reason to take up all that room if I don’t have to. Plus, if I want to change the look of the page, in theory, all I have to do is change the header and footer and the content will format itself to the page settings. It won’t go *that* smoothly in practice, but it’s a hell of a lot easier than re-formatting 10 separate pages – believe me!

That’s about all that I have planned thus far, but it’ll take a while. Oh- I guess the funny thing is that to get all of my pages to reflect the new header and footer scheme I have to go in and edit each of them separately. It’s the last time I want to do it, so it’s not looking as intimidating as it normally would.

And if you’re wondering, it’s the page-by-page editing that keeps my page looking the same for so damn long. : )

FYI: The site will be up and running at all times during these changes. No worries there!