themaninblack

Latest update. I shall be during some back office work this weekend in preparation for next year. Just released that presenting pages without picture links might be difficult as it's embedded in the hta/database, unless I can find some way of programming to produce a default link to each celeb which would be covered by just one picture or, alternatively removing the instruction without cocking the whole thing up!

Trump would be a gift for satirists and comedians if he were to become president whereas Clinton would be the kiss of death...

Ray Mabbutt, Bristol Rovers stalwart and father of fellow professionals Gary and Kevin, has died aged 80

Funny how he died just a few days after Carlos Alberto, the last captain to lift the old Jules Rimet trophy!

The only realistic way I could get others to contribute in the way you are suggesting is by switching domains to a site in which the database and control panel is integrated. But that would have to be paid for... However, I have had a bit of a windfall recently, so I could in theory "own" the website, set up the place and then allow others to run it with me as the overall supremo. There really needs to be some changes. The current database is badly in need of updating and refining. When the current format was created by Rude Kid & Seigfried Baboon in 2003, there were probably a few hundred celebs, now there's 10,400 odd which only has coding using just 6 digits, with many of the notes out of date or misspelt etc. As the celebs are added, many with similar names (for instance John Smith would be smithj on the database) so you soon have to make all sorts of allowances to get the celebs in, which in turn leads to many being in the wrong place. The schema is all over the place in terms of naming convention, place of origin and so on. A new website would in all likelihood mean a new database with codes and of course that all has to be transformed into a competition, with points and rules, which is certainly beyond my programming abilities (just what the fuck is a boolean anyway?). With the nomination process due to kick off in 6 weeks or so, there simply isn't any time to apply the changes the website badly needs - it is operating at the limit.

Oh we're along way from that, my friend! But just in case I do decide to jack it all in, I want to make the succession as smooth as possible. There's still a lot of work to be done to get the website up to date and functioning properly. For a start I'm going for a re-think in terms of pics/bios, the front page and the archives. This year has gone so quickly though I haven't had the time /wherewithal to do everything I want to. I have a teetering Access database of 10,000+ celebs, an eye-watering, old school front page and tons of pics weighing the site down. I want to ring the changes, make it leaner, meaner and cleaner but do I have the time to do it?

That's probably why then! DDP is created from Microsoft. I wonder if there's a tool I could use which would produce a format compatible with both OSs? My medium/long term aim to to make the production of the pages as simple as possible in view of a probable handover of duties...

What browser are you using?

In what way?

Saw the clip on ITV4 just now on mute. Noticed the expression on Jacqui Oatley's face and assumed Lowe had died!

Crispy Creme... Had he died in a fire this would have been extremely crass, and funny. But he didn't. SC He may get a cremation or should that be a cremeation?

Crispy Creme...

Twitter lets Vine wither...

That was Reed in the mid-70s wasn't it?

The legendary Lou Reed went permanently underground three years ago today...

I think West Ham United and Chelsea fans forgot that this is the EFL Cup not the EDL Cup...

He's looked ill and frail since 1968!

Latest update...

Hence we see nothing!

It works on IE, but I don't use IE, I use Firefox!

That goal:

A day shy of the birthday bonus. Ouch...

Someone on Radio 6 will shove on 'Sisters of Mercy' or something but nothing like the reaction Bowie got and that's not dismissing him, I think he's great!

Oh shit...

Since everyone's going on about their teams respective performances, Liverpool are 2nd in the Premier League after thrashing West Brom, er 2-1...