Everything’s coming together nicely on the site. More graphical finetuning from my son Collin over the weekend. I got a CGI script for a “recommend this page to a friend” feature. Got HTML email working. And I began opening up topics in the discussion boards today.
There will still be tons of stuff not completed but unless something really goes haywire, I plan to open it up the doors this Wed, Nov 1…. a so-called ‘soft launch’ which means, I’m not going to promote it yet but the URL www.realjoe.com will actually bring up the site instead of a “coming soon” page as it does now. I added a ‘take a peek’ link to the page tonight.
More family medical problems hit this week, only this time extended family instead of immediate. Both my dad and my sister are in the hospital. I wonder if there’s a way these crises could bring us together a little more? I’ll try to keep that frame of mind.
I was thrilled to see the announcement that the Blogger folks now have a wireless site for posting to individual blogs. I’ll try it out in the morning after I visit my dad in the hospital up in St. Paul… because, alas, I can’t get a wireless connection from my house or office here in Northfield.