Upgrade tonight

I'm ready to upgrade vendor search page. This should speed up searches as well as squash a few bugs that have been lingering. I've been working with the Smarty templating engine a little bit more and now I have completely separated out my business logic. If all goes well I will be working on the next feature which should be coming fairly soon. Let's keep our fingers crossed and hope for a smooth update.

A techie blog and a news blog

It's amazing all the stuff that goes into developing websites. Development can often seem snail paced slow the average user. People often do not want to know what pains a developer goes through to build a website. All a user cares about is .. well using the website. There is nothing wrong with this of course.

What I'm getting at is this. I created the bridal vine wordpress blog a while back and try to make regular updates as to the status of there website. I use do my best to reduce the geek speak and speak directly to my users needs.

I've decided to keep the wordpress blog exactly the same asit has been. I will update users of new features and changes to the site. I will post press releases and release news about as well.

What I would like to do is convert this blog to give more nuts and bolts type of stuff from a developers perspective. Since I love talking tech, it will allow me to chronicle some of the more techie stuff about the site. For example I could talk about how I am moving towards an MVC structure and spent most of the weekend rebuilding the vendor page stripping out the "view" and working them into smarty templates. I can also talk about the numerous restructures and re-factoring that goes on the daily. I can speak to fun stuff like that.

Hopefully, one or two people might actually find this stuff interesting, but of course I assume most users would not really be into this type of information; hence the two blog idea.

A tech blog and a news blog.

By the way here is a link to the new wordpress blog in case you want to check it out. http://www.thebridalvine.com/blog.

I plan on better linking it in the future. Until next time..

10 Ways to Look Your Best At Weddings

Check out another amazing article on The Bridal Vine: "10 Ways to Look Your Best At Weddings" by Kristin Griffin Photography http://thebridalvine.com/newsvine.php?articleid=1020 #weddingplanning #weddings

We finally got ourselves a new blog. You can find it here: http://www.thebridalvine.com/blog

This blog will now self destruct..

Build the new look of the site

Another productive few days. I have been continuing the front end development on The Bridal Vine by integrating the old code into the new css templates. The new vendor search feature is the next step. This is part is not so easy because it involves new code. Not too much but just enough to give me a little speed bump. Some code needs to be stripped out completely and be re-written. So far so good though. Once I get the new search functionality working, the rest of the site should be a breeze to convert.