So how is everyone?, I’ve been fairly busy on all range of tasks but it’s mighty nice to be catching up with you all. I’m possibly a little cheery for coming into winter but best news I’ve felt so far, my health still improving after some kind of incredible crash, no it wasn’t all in my brain but it did happen and it still surprises me. Obviously I hope to keep recovering. We all know life is full of it’s ups and downs and all I can say for now is things are reasonably good in terms of my health. To put it empirically, I’m probably about 2% off what I was prior to it “all going down”, but it’s a really tough 2% to overcome and anyone who’s been through something similar would be able to let you know, it was just one of those way out things but not the Corona Virus. I don’t think I’ll be mentioning it anymore because currently it’s “feeling okay” and that’s what’s okay as far as I’m concerned.
What’s Been Going On:
There have been a few changes at the Lipcrack site and what follows is an over view so people don’t get lost taking a look around.
1. A new music player has been incorporated into the main track listing page, its really helpful and that’s why it’s there. 90% of the previous site pages have been removed and it’s been simplified to play the tracks. Basically put, “it’s time to update some links and here’s the new address, https://www.lipcrack.com/catlog.htm ”.
2. If you would like to buy a track the direct link runs from the track to the shop and returns to the listening page, previously it went to a track page with lyrics and an Adobe Shockwave Player. As many know they’ve discontinued those players to some extent and certainly made it difficult to utilize in normal web functioning. Generally though it did seem to clutter the overall functionality of the site and the new player obviously has an easy to operate finish on it. Most likely I will put a lyric page back into the site sometime and it will run from the music main page or maybe the lyrics will run from the player.
Access the player here : https://www.lipcrack.com/catlog.htm
3. A new Blog Forum, “Can you believe it?”. A lot of people don’t like these but I really enjoy a good forum and frequented many of them when I first came online all those years ago. It should be interesting to see how things develop in it. People are welcome to drop in and have their say about whatever they feel like. Obviously I know things can get out of hand much like some Rock Shows, it’s just meant to be a good place to drop in and have a say. I’m also aware they can move kind of slow but the intention is to keep it there unless it doesn’t work, which over time we will find out. That can be accessed at the top of this page or here, if you log on.
https://www.lipcrack.com/blog/forum/
4. The Web Mobile Story has a new insert. People can access it here: https://www.lipcrack.com/Web/mobile2.html
And What About The New Tracks?
Talk about a mid year disaster huh? and nothing happening!, well not quite, it’s been a long process and it’s still under way but it’s moving along nicely. About a day before I had planned to start recording and was in the process of doing some initial test takes my headset gave out. There’s actually more to this saga but I know people don’t have all day so I’ll just let you know, a new one was purchased for use in recording what might become the next EP and it has finally arrived in the mail. Obviously I’m nervous about making another one for all kinds of reasons e.g. “will I get through another one?”. They’re not actually easy to do, so you never actually know, that’s how I feel about making an EP. The intention is to really make the most of it so I think it’s just wait and see what happens. I am going to try and stick to some kind of routine, generally it’s just been a process of bringing all gear together again to start things moving which should be soon enough.
There are a few other website development processes being considered, they’re not definite and like most things with conditions subject to change. We try and keep it pretty clean with our audience and that’s life with Lipcrack this month. We hope you have a great visit and see you all next month for more news.
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