Most of my time on the weather station recently has been monitoring the station and updating the Web site.\u00a0 I’ve been going through the logs on both my weather server and my ISP looking for problems.\u00a0 The good news is that I haven’t found any.\u00a0 I set up logrotate on my server to keep the size of the logs in check.\u00a0 So far all the logs and log maintenance look good.<\/p>\n
I’ve done some minor clean up and additions for the Web site.\u00a0 I updated the “About” page with the most recent information.\u00a0 I added some pictures and a few colored boxes to spruce up the page a bit.\u00a0 Some of the other pages needed some minor revisions, like making the pictures the same size and adding some borders.\u00a0 On the “Advisories” page I added hazardous weather outlook and the weather discussion from the NWS.\u00a0 I may decide to take some of that information back out, as I don’t want to clutter things up with extra information that can be obtained directly from the source of record.\u00a0 Also, they weren’t from XML feeds, so I’m dependent on the NWS not changing their page layout.\u00a0 Otherwise my PHP code to retrieve that information will need to change every time the NWS changes their page layout.\u00a0 Not good for maintenance.\u00a0 But it did give me some practice with regular expressions in PHP.<\/p>\n
Tomorrow I hope to get to the ground wire I keep forgetting about.\u00a0 I’ve also started looking at some new CSS templates for a completely revamped Web site.\u00a0 I found a few I like, and I’m now working on how to revise the layout to fit the new template.\u00a0 No big hurry, but i may set up a second site in parallel with this one so I can start playing with the new template.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Most of my time on the weather station recently has been monitoring the station and updating the Web site.\u00a0 I’ve been going through the logs on both my weather server and my ISP looking for problems.\u00a0 The good news is … Continue reading