Category Archives: Diary

Tinkered with speed of the site

Google is / was reporting that the pages were talking to long to load – Which, I couldn’t really see and everything was fine for me – But, I changed the way some of the CSS loaded in etc – Seems to have worked from their end, even though I still can’t see a lot of difference personally.

Finished adding Galleries to Film Pages – For now

Finally finished adding the galleries to the film pages. Talk about starting a job you didn’t realise was going to take so long!

Not all pages have galleries, yet – It’s an ongoing thing – There are about 70 that do.

All the pages will do eventually, but I wanted to revamp the Photo Gallery and it made sense to make a start with the stuff I already have rather than wait for me to finish working on the other things I want to include; Regional DVD Covers, Press Kits and those kinds of things

I am however, going to take a break before I do any of that.

More galleries to more film pages

Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaah. Adding these galleries is going to have to be a labour of love. I won’t bore anyone with posts about which I’ve added, but if you’re reading this – Then just know they’re being added.

At the time of writing I’m about half way done adding them and it’s taking WAY longer than I wanted it to do.

Bit frustrating as some of them only have one or two pictures, and it’s just as much work if they have 100 pictures 😐

It’s worth taking the time to do it right now though, I’ve a LOT more stuff to add once the initial setup is done.

It’ll be worth it. They tell me.

Started adding Galleries to Film Pages

So, even though I never really wanted to add a Photo Gallery to the site, and I did add one… I wasn’t very happy with it – AND – That means I have to mess about it now till I am happy 😐

Started updating it, but it’s a HUGE job – So, while I organise, and as a bit of a test, I’ve started adding in Production Stills and Promo work for films that didn’t really fit with my original structure, or if they did, then, badly.

I’ll have to see if I like them there or not.

So far I’ve done 1985, American Gothic, Spare Room, Fire with Fire and Witches of East End

I won’t be able to add them in for all the films, yet – But – like I said, this is just a test at the moment and I might change how it works.

Added “Site Updates”

Uhm. Yeah. Added “Site Updates” to the homepage – Going to be adding some archival material to each of the film pages, and – If anyone does visit this page often then they’ll be able to see what I’ve done and when I’ve done it.

Added the Video Interviews section

Meh – Made a few changes that I haven’t documented, on the fly when I was on the mood kind of changes.

This time I’ve eventually gotten round to adding links to the Video Interviews though, so, thought I’d put that in here.

Lots of other changes bubbling away in the background to come, but I think this is the most complete I’ve had the site to date.

Yay :-/

Added Sticky Header

Added a Sticky Header, finally.

Been trying to do that for a while – I don’t know much about CSS and even got ChatGPT on the case to help. But, it failed. Many, many, many times. Eventually Googled how to do it myself and did it the hard way. After some trial and error I got it working.

Yay me.

Sat here, high fiving myself.