Late Night Fiction

I was going through my site today when I realized all the flash pages didn’t show in Internet Explorer. I instantly knew what it was. Only because a week ago I was working on another site that wouldn’t display a simple ad I created. Every time I had looked at my site I just figured it was Flash running slow. Turns out when I use the object tag, for the movie parameter you gotta specify the path as well as in the embed part. Luckily I had gone through that little run on the other site I was doing a week ago because I knew the problem instantly.

Thing is, the hits on FlashStuf have been steadily decreasing since right around the very beginning of January, when they were their highest. They were just falling for no apparent reason. When looking at my code of where the pages started going wrong, the very first incompatibly-coded page was  made December 26. It all made sense.

This just shows how regular, constant testing is always necessary (though I’m usually pretty good about this). Especially when it’s dealing with my site’s main content. I must’ve lost tons of visitors because they figure most of the games and movies and stuff they came for isn’t even showing up. Granted it was 63 pages that needed the change, but that’s a huge deal considering my 150ish flash pages. Luckily I can attribute the hits-drop to that and some other reason I have no idea of. Basically, this has taught me a lesson. And I’m working on tons of other features for the site now that I know nothing big is broken (I won’t be wasting my time).

Projects development, FlashStuf

This has been one hell of a summer for me. I’ve spent a lot of it developing a lot of web sites. They’ve been getting progressively better, too. The thing is, it’s been taking all my attention (or most) away from the site I run the most, FlashStuf.com. But the beginning of the summer brought about a new feature on FlashStuf that I’ve been carrying through on every single site I’ve done since.

I started really getting my web design business off the ground (MattBaerDesign.com) back in June, as I was making a site for my first “official” client (Brahma Vidya Peetham). I got into browser-based game-making in mid-July, creating my previously flash-made idea of (what is now) Your God (although this is the only one not completely publicly known). Leaving my Chicken Cheese Productions site out to dry, I made this blog you’re seeing now (which doesn’t count; it took me 30 seconds to set up) off of that site, because it’s basically my personal site. And just yesterday, started on my second client’s (okay, dad’s) site, The Baer Foundation. And, of course, all of these projects are still carrying on to this day.

Somehow I manage to do all of this and actually enjoy my summer.

Personal, Projects Matt Baer Design

So I’m trying this thing out now. Figured what better to do with my life than share it with complete strangers?

Life blogging