Progress

Technically, I have finished the Discworld MUD website!

Only technically, however, because one page needs a bit of polish, another section is present but vastly incomplete (and I haven't decided on a final design for the navigation), and one section was deliberately uploaded incomplete, on the grounds that I'll never get it done if I don't try to inspire myself by doing something radical.

But it still feels like a load off my mind. The site has no dead links on the main sections, and finishing it off properly suddenly feels much simpler.

Also, I've made a small breakthrough today. I have finally moved my local files onto my biggest pen drive, on which is installed Portable Apps and XAMPP.

At last I have found a *AMP setup that actually cooperates with me! And, even better, I can carry it around in my bag!

Which is nice, because there are definite security issues to be considered, and therefore I wouldn't want to install XAMPP or anything similar on my home PC. I've already had a hairy moment after setting up passwords on apache and MySQL and failing to login. All I'd done was spell the password wrong, but honestly! Great start.

Also dodgy: I've actually written these passwords down on a piece of paper. Very, very bad form... but I could feel them leaking out of my head as I typed them: I've never created a password and felt more certain I was going to forget it in my life! I think I'll just have to remember to login to it all on a regular basis, and memorise them ASAP. (Needless to say, these passwords are different to all my others.)

So there we go :) Looking forward to moving on with the other sections. Had some really nice ideas for the F3P section too (content rather than design, which is still undecided). I'm currently reading Pyramids, and while some of Sir Terry's books are easy to imagine on film, this one isn't - I think it's possibly the one which relies most heavily on ideas, send-up of stereotypes which are no longer really current, and comedy which is almost entirely in the writing.

But I can see a way to do it. And because I'd have to move so far away from a literal depiction of the book's contents, I might be able to get around the copyright issues sufficiently to put it online.

Mmmm. Have to give it some more thought when the time comes. I think the Books section must definitely come next. How could it not?! The only reason I started with the MUD was because I was stuck... ;)

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Hey! This is the first post of the year! Only 3 months in.... but what an auspicious-looking date: 3rd day of the 3rd month of the 9th year. Nice!