LAS VEGAS – Even before the Times Square ball dropped, the millions who tuned into Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve and watched Mariah Carey perform could see that 2018 is going to be a significant improvement on 2017. Readers of PLSN can find further evidence of good things to come with one glance at the new home page at PLSN.com, with its splashy new graphic design suited to a wide array of mobile devices along with desktop computers.
But aside from the new site’s stylish looks, the most significant upgrade is the part of the site no one from the outside really sees — the coding behind the scenes. This is where our webmaster, Mike Hoff, has spent most of his efforts over the last few months.
Hoff inherited a site that, while largely functional, had more than its fair share of Rube Goldberg solutions to problems that had cropped up since the first version of PLSN.com was launched in mid-February, 2000, less than one month after the inaugural issue of the printed magazine.
The total number of PLSN.com’s news postings, blog entries and archived Current Issue postings now total 21,539 (oops, make that 21,540 — Nook just posted another one), and along with all that text, each one of those posted files links to font styles, graphics, images and external links – with yet more coding governing the placement of surrounding ad banners and frames.
So while the latest version marks a major achievement for webmaster Mike Hoff, he won’t be going on vacation to celebrate the milestone any time soon. As any web developer knows, the launch of a website marks the moment when even more work begins, because people start using it and the floodgates open wide with urgent recommendations on further tweaks and enhancements.
Once that initial flurry of fire-quenching gets under control for PLSN.com, Mike will then redouble his efforts on all the other websites that are affiliated with Timeless Communications and its seven magazines and annual directories, bringing the behind-the-scenes coding up to the same standard he’s just set for PLSN.com.
And as ever, in this modern era of the Internet, he will still be waging the good fight to safeguard the site from the relentless and ongoing attacks launched by spammers and hackers around the world.
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