Hunger Games

I have been preoccupied all week listening to The Hunger Games series of audiobooks (about halfway through the second set. I was able to download the mp3 of Catching Fire quite easily to my phone through my library’s website!). This constant state of hunger and attention to the books has caused me to put off any writing/reading that would rip my attention away from the books.

Thursday
In short order, I worked on the website, got a sneak peek of the upcoming Sedna Creator software (which looks amazing! I can finally schedule digital signs to expire! It’ll be available in a few months), had a meeting to discuss building a summer reading website, made a panel, did a short amount of web shop talk with a coworker, then had a meeting with my boss. The most amazing thing out of all of these was 1) proposing a mini site design for the upcoming 21 Things program for parents and realizing how close I was to transferring the new website changes from the test site to the real site. My boss also made some adjustments in his plans for the site, which freed me up from such annoying tasks like trying to add multiple inline images. I was ecstatic.

Friday
I made nine more digital signs and scheduled them to play (in only an hour!), made some final tweaks on the test website, and built the mini website for 21 Things (each week I will “flip over” each tile to activate that week’s lesson). Then came the moment of truth. I copied the theming files from the test website and saved them. I then copied the real website’s theming files to the test server. The test site regained its former appearance. Then I replaced the real site’s theme files with the test ones again. The transition was smooth and even! On Monday my boss will supervise copying the files over to make sure it goes correctly. I will then post an update about some of the changes. These will probably be the first big changes that patrons are likely to notice.