Redo

I finally hunkered down with the Senior Supermonster site this weekend and did what I had to.  The hover-buttons that I had been so enamored of and had used throughout the site were always somewhat of an issue, with the viewer usually having to convince their browser that it was OK to allow them to function.  Now it seems Microsoft has discontinued support for them altogether due to security concerns, and if you are at all familiar with that company, hearing about their concern for security might elicit a chuckle.

It had been a really long time since I had bothered to do much with the site, seeing as how the band dissolved and the whole thing is now back to being a concept of mine.  When I did create the sight I went about it in a very odd fashion.  First, I bought a book about html, read a little of it, and then put it where it still sits tucked away in some corner.  I then downloaded some free software and went about taking the idea in my head and forcing it into a webpage form.  It was all based on the early CD-ROM games that had come out with direction buttons and sounds and such.  It was fun while it lasted but they've shut the doors now, not unlike what happened to those CD-ROMs, and I've been forced to change.

So I downloaded another bit of software and this time had to work outwards from what I had done previously, actually getting into that source code and deleting what had to go and sticking in what could work.  It's even less elegant than it was before but what the hell.  I archived all of the old pages that I wanted to keep and ditched the stuff that no longer applied.  I put a new front page on there to make it seem like there is construction in progress but that's kind of over at this point, until the next motivation comes along.

Then as I pondered this post I realized that I had spaced the real reason that I had even bothered.  I wanted to get widgets for both my Soundcloud and ReverbNation accounts on there in preparation for finally letting go of this track that I've been working on for longer than I can actually recall. That should be emerging soon with a direct link right on this blog, so stay tuned whomever might be currently tuned.