It's live.... The work is done and the site is posted. Some of you have had a chance to see the beta site go through a few changes, most of you haven't seen the site at all. I think this new site will be far better than the old one. Drop me a line and let me know what you think. Shortly you will start to see more posts about he wedding as Tracy and I move into gear to prepare for the wedding. So I guess EternalMagic v2.0 came just in time.

The site has gone through a few more changes, but not many. I decided to change the home page from this journal to one of a picture of Tracy and myself. I just like the way that looks better. You go to the site and boom, you know you are at the right place. I have also added more information for those traveling from outside of Dallas. I have more information to obtain, plus add in links to their respective sites as well as links to maps or directions to at least the wedding and the primary hotel.

We do have some final decisions to make on things such as: menu for wedding, menu for rehearsal dinner, blocking rooms, finding a preacher and a few other odds and ends; but not like those are major issues or anything. The good news is we still have several months.

It is all coming together though and looking very good. I am actually very pleased with how the site is looking and operates. I know it won't be a high travel site, but it will be an important one if only for a few short months.

Just a few more changes before I put the 2.0 site up live at www.kellysworld.net/eternalmagic. I just need to make sure the site is clean and the links all work as they are supposed to. So far everyone that has taken a look at it has liked the layout and the ease of use. It isn't as complicated as the 1.0 site, but that is more of a plus I think. It is more sophisticated as it fully supports CSS in the proper way instead of the the hacked up way I was doing it with 1.0.
I still have more content to create, maps to get on-line as well as links to driving directions for those that might need it.

Tracy has been biting at my heels to get me to update Eternal Magic. The problem has been that I have switched to a new web development tool and that tool won't edit the site. I have a tool that will, but doesn't do it extremely well; plus the site actually uses two different systems for update. The first being traditional web development and the other being a site maintained by Blogger. Across both I am using the same CSS, but I didn't write the CSS and more importantly I didn't the website to update the sidebar automatically. The menus weren't dynamic either. Basically, what all this means is that Eternal Magic 1.0 was a real pain to edit.

The new site will be light years easier to maintain, but for the time being I have lost some functionality. Much of it I can probably re-claim, but I will have to learn how to do them in the new editing environment. To make the situation worse, much of what I did was based totally on trial and error. I really have no desire to go through that process again.

The look of this site will probably go through several changes, as Kelly's World recently has done, before Tracy and I find a look we like. I may attempt to edit some of the templates, but that requires cutting into the CSS again and my skills in that area are not very good. So by the time you are reading this the site may have already changed again. As of right now I haven't even changed the site over to the Eternal Magic sub-domain of Kelly's World. Once I do, i will blow away Eternal Magic 1.0 and be happy to be maintain an easier version of the site.