Fredlambuth.com, 2nd update

A quick lesson I have learned about developing my website is that deploying whatever changes I made on my Windows PC to my Linux web server is going to be the most difficult step for every update. The difference in operating systems has provided a couple of easily fixed problems, but the chunkiest difficulties have been learning how Apache2 and Django behave with one another. I only run the built-in web server that comes with Django when I test on my PC - my DEV environment - which apparently does more than a production web server ought to be doing. I had some very frustrating evenings learning how static files I use in my app are served separately when using a standard web server. 

This update was my first big stab into designing my pages with CSS. The templates I used so far in my site’s development have been some stuff I copied from a few different Github repositories. I have not learned much or implemented too many new design changes, but it has been the most enjoyable type of debugging. The results can be seen without having to find the right log file.

The other update, which also turned out to be surprisingly smooth in implementing, is the input form in the Artist List page. Before I had been dumping all the names of artists that show up in my Spotify API work into a list, sorted by appearance. Now it’s sorted alphabetically, with a search function! It’s not much, but it’s honest work.