The tightness of my schedule is finally catching up with me. L., bless her, knocked out my business card in about 5 minutes. This is particularly heroic because I had planned to do it myself and was grumpy about her asking me questions and putting it together herself instead. It's a temporary thing, with a slogan I doubt I'll keep, but it's still a couple steps above a completely generic templated business card, for which I'm thankful. I had two other things to do yesterday, and I only got one down. Granted, it was a biggie – the site has been moved to a new Joomla template, and customized so that it has my business name, menus, etc.. These newer, fancier templates are definitely cool-looking, but they require a good bit more work than the free and simple ones.

That means that I have one major item for today – the review system. It is a complicated piece of software written by someone for whom English is not a native language. I have nothing against him, and the software itself is a pretty slick piece of work, but the help files are sparse and his comments on message boards are a bit tricky to digest sometimes. As of 7 PM on Wednesday I have activated the software and done some preliminary testing, but it is nowhere near to doing what I want it to do yet. That's unfortunate, because I help at my kickboxing school on Wednesdays and I'm keeping a firm 10PM bedtime this week so I'm rested for the weekend (normally I catch up on my sleep on the weekends). Even worse than usual, one of our students tonight is a police officer here in the middle of a split shift, so his firearm is secured in the office under lock and key, meaning I can't get in there and get online. So, despite plenty of quiet time when I could be doing dev work, instead all I can do is blog. So, hi!

 

This all means that the review system will get a teeny bit of tweaking tonight, some more tomorrow when I can squeeze it in, and in all likelihood will NOT be where I want it to be when people come to see the site over the weekend. Granted, it's only a few people, but still. I'm starting to lean towards taking the review system back down and leaving the purely text reviews up; they look fine, and otherwise the site is darn near presentable.

Other than that, Thursday will be checking in on any last-minute correspondence (no other takers yet, alas), picking up business cards, packing, getting an oil change, and in the evening I hit the road. If any time presents itself I'll do some more development on the reviews, otherwise they come down.