Last night: completed Google-searching and compiling covers for every single Hugo nominated novel. And installed, you can see them now. Next: Nebula and Locus.
Today, began thorough auditing and implementation of exceptions in the award source records to the default formatting done so far on the awards listings pages. For example, cases where within an award category there are first place, second place, and so on, as in the Writers of the Future and Rhysling awards. As well as other tags, indicating award won but declined, nomination deleted, and so on. These have been implemented but are not yet posted…
I should mention that the new site is being built from scratch, using the same tools (MS Access databases that generated static webpages, though now using php), but with fresh visual basic code, queries, macros, etc. The code in the database for the old site grew like one of those houses that just kept adding rooms, and got very inefficient; the new databases, plural, are more modular (object oriented) and easily maintained.
These posts are only secondarily to inform anyone reading this – the handful of invited previewers – about my progress; mainly, I’m setting up a series of posts so I can adjust WordPress to set up archive pages and so on. The intent is to use WP to display the latest one or two updates on the homepage — the more modular database implementation will make it easy to keep the site updated weekly, say — and to display older posts on archive pages. These early development posts will be deleted, eventually…