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Long time readers of From Script To DVD may have noticed that the site hasn't been updated as usual. I'll try to explain why.

Computers and software are constantly updated. What's new today is suddenly old a few minutes later. Almost anybody who's got a slight interest in computers knows this. So I've had to update software and new equipment on my end. Between transferring an entire 900+ page site to new software and Internet compliant rules, and having some computer versus web server issues, the site hasn't been updated on a timely schedule. Please accept my apologies.

When FSTDVD was started a few years ago, I had to learn how to create a website from scratch. The first and only program I bought was the much derided Microsoft FrontPage. Web programmers, go ahead and laugh. I've had plenty of other web programmers pat me on the shoulder with a sorrowful look in their eyes. Not knowing the difference between FrontPage's bizarre code, CSS and other web programming speak, I mastered this site in that software. It was inexpensive and supposedly was an easy way to build a site. Picture building a huge house with outdated construction techniques and non-standard building material, only to start over from scratch to bring the house up to modern standards. That's what's happening here on this site.

I'm in the process of re-building FSTDVD to bring it up to new web standards. This will take some time to update the pages. Many of the old pages still have the old look (something you can see) and old coding (something you can't see). Hopefully all the pages on this site will be updated soon. This won't happen overnight. So if the pages look old and don't match the rest of the site, you'll know why.

I thank you for your continuing support of the site.  
 
Bill Kallay

Geek Speak


If you're into web programming and software, this may be funny and interesting to you at the same time.

Microsoft discontinued FrontPage. From what I understand, this wasn't a beloved software program by most web programmers. Microsoft had its own proprietary code and web servers required "FrontPage Extensions" to operate a site built in FrontPage. This caused me headaches in trying to find a web provider who supported "FrontPage Extensions." Now it's causing me headaches in converting to a new program that's up-to-date. I'm not sure how long my web provider will continue to support "FP," so I'm working on getting FSTDVD transferred to modern CSS code.

Microsoft developed a pretty good software program called Expression. Since I'm used to the way most of Microsoft's Office programs work, I migrated over to Expression. That software has been a struggle to re-learn how to develop a site in proper "CSS" code. Why can't this be easy?

 
 
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