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Niggles Sorted - Shop Opening on Track

The elusive graphic turned out to have a complex cause and a simple solution.

It seems that Dreamweaver doesn't necessarily tell you when an uploaded file hasn't completely arrived. So it was detailed examination which exposed empty files on the server. Once that had been resolved a new discrepancy between Firefox and IE emerged whereby Firefox refuses to load GIF file where it has detected an error which is ignored by IE. So we re-optimised and re-saved the GIF's in question and all was sweetness and light.

The home page revamp has gone well and we even found the PayPal graphic we needed on their US site and have that up and running. Plenty more to do on other pages but that can wait and the next priority is to install the osCommerce volume discount contribution. Press release on Thursday and then a long weekend off. If you are interested you can already get into the new shop via a link from our commercial page - any feedback would be most welcome.

Reviewing the site's musical content last week I was reminded how nicely our percussion arrangements of the Scarlatti Harpsichord Sonatas turned out and here is a lofi streaming sample of K547 in G Major Allegro - enjoy.

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