I’ve been recording every night this week, and while I’m not getting a lot done, I’m doing a better job just by keeping myself in and dedicating my night to sound. Anyways, I’m taking a break tonight because I’m at the tail end of another thing I’ve been working on, which is a complete website redesign for my recording and publishing imprint, Prokiev Projects + Publishing.
Right now it’s a frame- and popup-based site that pulls in the different HTML files depending on what you click on. That means each project has its own HTML file, and all of the files have almost exactly the same code. It also means that any changes in the design have to be applied manually to each page. So I dug a little deeper into using PHP, and learned how to link a database and use variables to create pages dynamically. It’s almost ready. Everything is working properly, the design is cleaner and relies more on style sheets, and I reduced the number of files, (excluding images) from around to 30 to maybe six or seven pages.
Tonight I’m rescanning and cataloging everything under the Prokiev imprint, with the exception of a few really old or obscure projects. I need an archive of medium resolution scans that I can work from to get the site finished. This involves digging out my old laptop (which runs Windows XP) and scanner (which has no driver for Vista, which is what my new laptop runs) and hooking them up and transferring the scans with a flash drive. In the process, I can’t touch the old computer or move it in anyway, or it’ll shut down. The power input and battery are both fried. Hence the external keyboard, mouse and USB router.
I feel like I’m doing some super involved, high-tech work here, with all the screens and wires all over the place, but it’s just scanning.