Ironwood Omnimedia

So I am having alot of fun working out my adventures. Two projects are coming together fairly quickly, so I am feeling productive. Its a new year, and it comes wqith its own new enthusiasm.

Amidst the development I thought it would be nice to update the community to the new phpBB3 forum. We installed it and I am working out the site template for it. Its coming along nicely. Everything looks like its on an upswing until….

Our host for the site apparently decided to make an unannounced update to their systems. Now, from previous experience with these updates/maintenance I have resolved myself to backing up the website completely and reinstalling it after the updates. However, without any notice, I can’t do this. The result was that the entire site went completely wonky. Apparently the upgrades changes some ways the scripts are read. So I have had to go back to every single page in the site and correct these problems. Furthermore, I have reached my ability in scripting and code and cannot fix some of the damage. I am having to find myself rewriting the entire code to make it work.

So the product development has stalled for the past few days as I try to repair the damage. I have been in contact with the host and been getting some help from them. My last response from them was a rather bland fix that only repaired some very minor problems. The main front page still isn’t displaying right. I just hope they actually have some techies in  the wings on the weekend to help me out. I would love to know what really happened to break the site, again.

I have one or two last minute tricks I have thought of to try. I will be attempting these today. If I haven’t gotten it fixed by lunch I am hanging it up until their people can look at the code and see if there is anything the can do. Once I hang it up I will either be writing more of the adventures, or finnishing up the new forums. I will decide that based on my level of creativity (the former requiring more).

Until next time….

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