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| Attempt Two | 8th February 2009, 19:20 | |
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I've just written this blog entry once, but an accident led to me closing Firefox instead of Dreamweaver and losing everything I had written. So here goes again. Apologies if it is not as eloquent as the first version, but the beauty is that no-one will ever know. Firstly, I must confess to having lost interest in the Cola Watch. I am sure I wasn't the first. The dramatic fluctuations in the prices of Colas that had piqued my interest before Christmas seem to be no more, and the base prices of both brands have remained stable for weeks, so I gave up. Incidentally, Pepsi has been on BOGOF for the past week. That would be convenient if I had a convenient fridge to secure the second bottle in for the next day. Secondly, I wanted to mention the new button that our most eagle-eyed visitors will have spotted having appeared on the front page of Shastrix. (In my head I still call it shastrix.com, because without that it's more the word rather than the website). This button is simply marked 'books', and it has a long and checkered history... well, maybe slightly. In the olden days, I had an application on my Facebook profile called 'Visual Bookshelf'... or it might have been 'Virtual'... which enabled you to list the books you had read, were reading, and wanted to read. It wasn't perfect - for example I reinterpreted the 'want to read' as 'have on the shelf waiting to be read' - but I was able to put up with it, and its increasing commercialism (comments, sharing, competitiveness, adverts, visual restaurateur', etc.). Until, that is, the great Facebook face-lift of 2008, when the interface became unusable - or at least unsuitable for how I wanted to use it. So, I decided that I would write my own bookshelf site, and add in some reviews of my own - that way, I could continue to keep a database of my books, and could have it exactly how I liked. I wrote a quick mock up version of how it would look, built the database and populated it with a few entries as tests... and then forgot all about it. About six months later Ashley suggested that I should use my blogs to write reviews of the books that I was ploughing through. Aha! I thought. 'Ta-da!' I said, and revealed the pre-built website just for that purpose. Memory having been restored, I quickly finished off the workings of the site and set about reviewing the books I was reading. And finally, today, I have added the comments feature, so that users can leave behind their own thoughts about the books that I have read, or ask further questions. There is also a suggestions page, which you have to look quite hard to find, and I'm looking forward to receiving some good ideas. |
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