Site Changes

Site design by Richard G. Hallas (email Richard@Hallas.net or Webmaster@OCCDs.org).

4th January 2012	I made a silly mistake with the new CD cover graphics (the ones in mock CD boxes, used to illustrate this site). Although they looked fine to the uncritical eye (and the problem escaped my attention for several weeks), I had actually forgotten the hinge! My ‘Virtual Concert Hall Series’ spine graphic extended from the bottom edge of the spine to the top, right inside the arms of the hinged front. But, of course, on a real CD box, two plastic walls are needed for those arms to plug into, and I’d forgotten to include them in my mockup CD box. So now I’ve created suitable additions to the basic graphic and regenerated all the cover images. I don’t imagine for a moment that anyone will notice, but it satisfies my quest for perfection if nothing else. I do think the little CD-case icons look even better now. More to the point, the much larger versions (as can be found on the Resources page) needed the walls much more urgently. I haven’t used those large graphics anywhere yet, but will need them very shortly for an advertising leaflet.
1st January 2012	Happy New Year! Added review comments about CD12/2011 (MusicWeb International). Having discovered that Miloš Zelenka was the conductor for CD9/2009, this information has been added to the page itself and to the many indices throughout the site (including adding a Zelenka entry in the Artist index). It was also necessary to update the metadata of Track 9 on the Sampler CD, and indeed to update the PDF of its booklet to list the name on the inner pages.
2nd December 2011	Changed the Ordering page to have a Distributors section rather than a Partner Sites heading, and added to it our new Japanese distributor, Sarabande Co. Ltd; with luck, more will be added in future. Removed Czech Music Direct from this page, as they no longer sell OCCDs recordings. Also removed the link to Czech Music Direct’s page selling OCCDs discs from our Links page, as the linked page no longer listed any of our CDs. Other links to Czech Music Direct remain, however. Added Sarabande to the Links page, too.
30th November 2011	Major update! (Now finally complete!) Finally revised the opening Welcome/News page in light of the new commercially-pressed Virtual Concert Hall Series CD issues. Revised and updated all the introductory text at the top of the page, expanded and embellished the ‘Major Announcement’ section, and presented a list of all the new CD covers. (This is a copy of the Cover Overview page content, in fact.) This Major Announcement section will disappear in due course and be replaced once again by the temporarily-disabled Latest Release(s) section, once there’s yet another new CD, but for the moment we need to highlight that the entire range has been updated. And that’s it; the update to the site is finally complete.
28th November 2011	Major update! (a further interlude…) I realised that I was quite irritated by the loss of the pink dress. Yes, it’s a silly and totally inconsequential thing to be bothered about. Yes, actually doing anything about it would be an utter waste of time. But nevertheless, being the person I am, I just had to. So I Photoshopped the pink dress back in. It’s not perfect: the best original copy of the photo I had (the book cover scan) was of a very low resolution; much too low to be really useful, and far lower than the picture with the recoloured grey dress, so detail has been lost. Nevertheless, the overall effect is OK, and reintroduces the authentic element to the picture. I like it much better than the grey version; that splash of pink adds character to the whole image.
27th November 2011	Major update! (an interlude…) Replaced the picture of the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra on the opening News page with a nicer version that I found while working on the new CD material. It’s the same photo; just a much clearer and sharper version of it. The old one was faded, yellowed and stretched, whereas the new one is crisp and clear. I’ve kept the size the same and cropped the new photo to match the old; the only difference, apart from clarity, is that the new version has slightly more vertical detail (no feet chopped off!); the old one was about 15% taller than it should have been. Just one oddity: in the original picture, there was a lady in a pink dress, just above and to the right of the centre of the picture. In the new version of the shot now used here, she’s dressed in black! Clearly someone felt that she stuck out like a sore thumb and colour-processed her dress. Although they were right that she stuck out, the pink did give the picture a splash of colour, which has now been lost, and it’s a bit of a shame, particularly as this was an official photo that was used (including the pink dress) as the cover of a 50th anniversary commemorative book about the Brno Philharmonic. Under the circumstances, I’d have kept the pink myself.
26th November 2011	Major update! (continued…) Today, my own copies of all the commercially manufactured CDs arrived. They’re fantastic! Incredibly, it seems I made a stupid mistake with the updated Sampler CD. Inexplicably, I got it into my head that the CD10 sample track was from Tod und Verklärung, when in fact it was from the last movement of Dvořák’s Symphony no 8. (This was based on a misreading of something, not on listening to the track!) So, to fix this I’ve had to edit the track itself (to correct the metadata), fix the CD inlays, regenerate the SamplerCD.zip archive containing them, and fix all the instances (including an index page) on the site that were wrong as a result. Ho-hum. That’s presumably what happens when I work too late… my eyes start jumping lines. Added a whole new page of downloadable resources (CD covers in a couple of formats, plus some OCCDs logos), linked from the About page, for use by reviewers and distributors who want to be able to use OCCDs CD covers in other pages. Previously, either they’ve had to mangle one of my ‘plastic CD’ cover graphics or scan an inlay. Added new review quotations about CD7/2009 and CD10/2010. Corrected all fourteen CD pages. Primarily this was to update the timings to match the real CDs, but I also fixed a few small inconsistencies and outdated details.
21st November 2011	Major update! (continued…) Updated all aspects of the Sampler CD page to list all its tracks correctly; created new sound samples for all tracks (previous and new) in MP3 format, and also decided to include AAC versions in the full download archive for added quality. Corrected lots of mistakes in the existing track listings on the Sampler CD page. I was amazed to discover that I’d forgotten to include orchestra and conductor information for most of these tracks before now! Added appropriate references to the Sampler CD tracks on the CD 10 to CD 14 pages. Changed Frédéric Chopin to Fryderyk, as per Peter Katin’s preferences in his booklet notes. There’s still a fair bit more to do to the site before the update is finished, but it’ll have to wait a few days, unfortunately. Added a Major Announcement section to the opening page. More details to be added when I have time.
20th November 2011	Major update! In recent weeks I’ve had my work cut out, creating professional-quality CD booklets, tray inlays and labels as a result of having CDs 1 to 14 pressed commercially. The CDs have thus all changed in appearance, are now of high commercial quality, and all have brand new cover graphics. Nine retain the same basic cover images as before, but five do not, and all have changed to a greater or lesser extent. The changes to the site are primarily related to the new commercially pressed issues. Created new CD icons for all discs on the site. Generated a new Sampler CD (CD0/2011 replaces CD0/2009) and updated all references to it. Added the sampler to extra entries in the indices, thanks to the presence of five new tracks. (The new sampler loses the unidentified organ track from CD0/2009, retains all nine other tracks from the previous sampler, and adds five new tracks.) Corrected the spelling of Annelies Burmeister’s name (no e on the end of Annelies) and added the accented ł in Wiłkomirska.
25th September 2011	Added review comments about CD8/2009 (MusicWeb International). Made a small CSS change to improve the layout of CD listing pages, as the handling of the inline-table display property seems to have changed in recent versions of WebKit (Safari 5.1+).
23rd September 2011	Fixed a minor problem in Firefox 4+, in which contextual alternative (swash) characters would appear instead of normal ones in the Warnock Pro font if available on the user’s system. Thanks to ‘frboyer’ on Mozilla Support for the necessary information on how to do this.
6th September 2011	Added a comment by Joel Flegler, editor/publisher of Fanfare, about the OCCDs Shostakovich 10 recording to the CD14/2011 and Reviews pages.
19th August 2011	Corrected the recording date of CD14/2011 to 6th March 1968 throughout the site, and amended all references to the Smetáček recording on the Recordings page to that date.
12th August 2011	Added a review comment about CD2/2008 from Dr David Wright.
24th July 2011	Added CD13/2011 and CD14/2011 to the catalogue, along with all the site changes that such additions entail. Replaced the CD11/2010 cover graphic with a new version, since the background green colour had to be replaced with grey for production reasons. Decreased the prominance of the Site News section on the opening page, since there’s rarely anything of interest to say there and it ends up just looking out of date. Decided to replace the announcement simply with a reference to the date of the last update, with a link to this Site Changes page for more information.
11th May 2011	Small change to the opening page to try to make browsers refrain from caching it, thus reducing the likelihood of outdated pages appearing when there’s been a recent update.
3rd April 2011	Halved the length of the CD12/2011 sample track so that the page no longer plays the entire movement. Now we hear just the first four minutes or so, followed by a fade-out.
20th March 2011	Added CD12/2011 to the catalogue. Made a number of improvements to the listings in the Catalogue>Index by Artist page.
30th November 2010	Huddersfield Town Hall recording of Brahms 4 added to the Recordings page.
10th November 2010	Added a link to Peter Katin’s Web site on the Links page.
2nd November 2010	Added a nice ‘review’ comment about CD4/2009 from Jean-Gaspard Páleníček, grandson of the pianist recorded on the CD.
24th September 2010	Added a link on the Links page to the articles about audio equipment at Favorite-Classical-Composers.com at the request of that site’s owner; hoping for a reciprocal link back! Added hosting information (including links to Just Host) on the About page.
12th September 2010	Fixed an obscure problem with the layout of covers on the Cover Overview page for Firefox users. Previously, dragging a cover link and releasing it would leave it in the active state (with ‘focus’), but this focussed-state version would have the wrong padding and background image position settings if the pointer wasn’t hovering over it, and that would alter the size of the highlighted box and mess up the entire layout flow. Now we cater specifically for this focussed state (and also suppress Firefox’s irritating dotted border around the covers), so the behaviour is wholly consistent with the normal ‘active’ state. (This issue doesn’t affect WebKit-based browsers, which don’t use focus in this way.)
16th August 2010	I’m not really superstitious, but disasters that strike on Friday 13th do make you wonder…! The orchestralconcertcds.com domain name expired without warning on that date, having not been transferred (as expected and assumed) to the new hosting company, leaving the Web site inaccessible and the email addresses non-working. Swift action was taken by Geoffrey to remedy the problem, but it left us offline for a couple of days and forced us to adopt a new address in order to return swiftly to view. The new domain chosen was occds.org, which has the advantage of being much shorter and easier to type. At the time of writing, orchestralconcertcds.com is out of action, though we hope to regain it very soon, at which point it’ll work just as it did before, as an alternative to the new name. However, we’ve decided to move to using the new domain in preference to the old in future, since the old domain is pretty cumbersome. I’ve therefore changed all references in email addresses to point to the new domain on this site. In future, either domain should work. Update: mere minutes after writing the above, we have regained the orchestralconcertcds.com domain, and it’s now working again as before. Added a new paragraph to the About page, under an Addresses heading, explaining the choice of domain name.
8th July 2010	Added reviews from American Record Guide to CDs 1, 3, 4, 8 and 9. Temporarily (I hope) removed the dividers above the text headings on the CD 2, 7 and 9 pages, since an apparently new bug in WebKit (affecting Safari 5 and other WebKit-based browsers such as Google Chrome) causes these dividers to fail to truncate to the left of the floating review boxes, thus forcing them and their following text down the page, with a huge gap before them. This ruins the page layout. I hope Apple fixes this annoyance soon… I intend to restore the dividers as soon as the bug is fixed.
1st July 2010	Added a new entry to the Recordings table (Stravinsky Pulcinella).
26th June 2010	Added another photo to the About page (Ančerl, Terry, Turnovský) and made a few small layout tweaks.
24th June 2010	Added a couple of photographs to illustrate the story on the About page.
21st June 2010	Added an interesting and entertaining personal recollection, by Geoffrey Terry, about how the recordings came to be made to the About page.
17th June 2010	Added Czech Music Direct’s Czech Music Radio Show, about Orchestral Concert CDs, to the Samples page and added a reference to it on the About page.
11th June 2010	Added review comments about CD6/2009 (MusicWeb International).
7th June 2010	Added a review comment about CD9/2009 (MusicWeb International).
3rd June 2010	Added a couple of new entries to the Recordings table (Szymanowski and Dukas), and corrected a few wrong details (Huddersfield Town Hall added!).
31st May 2010	Added a comment about CD1/2008 from Martin Anderson’s interview with Geoffrey Terry in Fanfare 33:5 to the reviews.
30th May 2010	The offer of free worldwide shipping has now ended. The site has now reverted to the previous shipping charges, as detailed on the Ordering page. Added review comments about CD2/2008 (MusicWeb International) and CD7/2009 (private customer feedback).
20th May 2010	The recording date of the concert presented on CD9/2009 has been discovered; updated the various pages of the site to include it.
1st May 2010	Added a couple of review comments about CD1/2008. Received another very nice compliment from Robert Kellner, of Bertels Klassik-Ecke in Germany, via private email to Geoffrey Terry: “[Your Web site] is a very professional and informative resource that is a great pleasure to navigate so easily, your webmaster has done a superb job here indeed!”
18th April 2010	Added CD11/2010 to the catalogue.
30th March 2010	Received a lovely compliment via private email from the splendid Dr Howard Oakley (of MacUser magazine fame): “[Y]our website is gorgeous, and a joy to listen to!”
25th March 2010	Added CD10/2010 to the catalogue. Reorganised the opening Welcome/News page: the temporary splash about free shipping has been demoted to a single line of body text and the Sampler CD has been moved out of the Latest Releases section to have its own permanent box at the right of the page, where the free-shipping splash was previously.
14th February 2010	Shipping is now free worldwide: updated the Ordering page to reflect this, and added a splash to the opening News page.
11th February 2010	An important improvement: the CD-specific reviews that appear on the Reviews page are now replicated in floating boxes on the CDs’ pages themselves. Non-specific reviews appear on the Sampler CD page. Added quotations from Fanfare’s reviews of CDs 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 to the Reviews page. We choose not to quote from the double-review of CDs 1 and 4 for reasons that should be obvious to anyone who reads it. Added dividers between the review sections on the Reviews page, since the greatly increased quantity of text was beginning to make the boundaries between reviews unclear. On the CD7/2009 page, added composer accreditation for the Czechoslovak National Anthem in the track-listing table, and added similar information to all index pages; added a Škroup entry in the Composer index (replacing the previous Other entry). Corrected some strange but insignificant markup errors that had somehow got into the Welcome page. Fixed a couple of tiny problems with the opening index page (the one that immediately redirects to the Welcome section).
25th January 2010	Added quotations from MusicWeb International’s review of CD4/2009 to the Reviews page.
18th January 2010	Added a new comment from Don Hansen about CD1/2008 to the Reviews page. Corrected the date of Norman Lebrecht’s comment about CD1/2008 on the Reviews page.
17th January 2010	Added a new comment from Norman Lebrecht about CD2/2008 to the Reviews page.
6th January 2010	Finally got around to creating new header-bar graphics (“Alert!” and error-triangle logo) for the 404 Page not found error page. As I have recently set up a couple of email accounts to accompany the site, various references to email addresses have now been updated to reflect this fact. All instances of Geoffrey Terry’s previous Yahoo address have been replaced with Info@OrchestralConcertCDs.com, whereas some contact details for me have been changed to Webmaster@OrchestralConcertCDs.com, though I’ve also retained a couple of instances of Richard@Hallas.net for matters that may be considered personal rather than directly related to this site. Added a new contact address for myself on the About page, in my capacity as Webmaster.
8th November 2009	Quoted Norman Lebrecht’s brief review of CD1/2008 on the Reviews page. Corrected a couple of 2008 references that should have been 2009 on this Changes page and on the Reviews page.
20th November 2009	Added a quotation from the Editor/Publisher of Audiophile Audition to the Reviews page.
13th November 2009	Added ‘A charged performance’ to the CD7/2009 page.
12th November 2009	Added ‘A tribute to Alexandr (Saša) Večtomov’ to the CD9/2009 page.
9th November 2009	Added CD9/2009 to the catalogue and updated all relevant pages of the site as appropriate. Added dagger-footnotes to all CD pages (i.e. CDs 1 to 9) to indicate which tracks are excerpted on the Sampler CD, and provided a direct link to the Sampler CD. Thus, as well as the sound sample for each CD on the CD’s page, there is also a note of which other track can be heard via the site. CD1/2008 is unique in having a total of three excerpts (the extra one being the Novák sample on the site’s opening page). Updated the cover of CD5/2009 to reflect reality rather than a pre-release image (terracotta rather than grey background). Updated the cover of CD3/2009 to reflect the final release (only minor differences). Changed the date (in all relevant places) of the Fairfield Halls, Croydon performances on CD3/2009 from the previous “c. 1972” to the newly-discovered actual date of 24th September 1963. Updated and corrected some details on the Recordings page (e.g. In Nature’s Realm was previously entitled “(TBC)”).
8th November 2009	Added quotations from Audiophile Audition’s review of CD5/2009 to the Reviews page.
27th October 2009	Added a quotation from Audiophile Audition’s nice new review of CD1/2008 to the Reviews page. Added day and rating information to the previous Audiophile Audition review quotation.
26th October 2009	Added CD8/2009 to the catalogue and updated all relevant pages of the site as appropriate.
25th October 2009	Regenerated the Jan Novák track that plays when the site opens. It should sound much the same as before (the MP3 quality is the same), but I’ve used the newly remastered version of the CD that Geoffrey has just sent me, and it removes an audible mono/stereo glitch that was previously present at around the 1:00 mark. I’ve also taken the opportunity to make the sample about three seconds longer in order to incorporate the little bridge passage that leads into the repeat of the opening music, to take advantage of the fact that this particular track loops. It’s not perfect because there's an unavoidable small gap when the loop happens, and the final note of the clarinet in the scalar bridge passage overlaps with the opening music repeat, and hence has had to be omitted. Nevertheless, I think it’s an improvement on balance. Created a new sample track for the CD1/2008 page and added a note that the Novák sample can be heard on the opening News page. Updated the Samples page to reflect this. On the Samples page, the index table of samples was less clear than I felt it should be because it was difficult in some cases to differentiate rows within the table. Therefore I’ve added single-pixel row dividers between entries. Added a favourable comment from the Editor of the Anton Bruckner Symphony Versions Discography to the Reviews page.
22nd October 2009	Whoops! Prokofiev’s 3rd Piano Concerto is in C major, not C minor! Corrected references on the CD2/2008, CD0/2009 and Samples pages. Added quotations from MusicWeb International’s review of CD7/2009 to the Reviews page. Removed double attributions from the first two CD reviews on the Reviews page. Now the two separate paragraph quotations share a single attribution at the bottom, just as with the newly-added CD7/2009 entry. Supplied missing title and venue info for the Suk Fairy Tale entry on the Recordings page.
3rd October 2009	Added a quotation from Audiophile Audition’s review of CD3/2009 to the Reviews page.
15th September 2009	Added an introductory sentence to the Sampler CD page.
13th September 2009	Shock, horror! A visitor found a broken link on the Samples page! This caused me to (a) fix the link and (b) install a custom 404 error page, to handle any similar future problems more gracefully.
10th September 2009	Minor fixes and corrections, including the removal of an outdated ‘for sale by’ info box on CD6/2009, which has been on sale officially for some time. Geoffrey also finally got the PayPal buttons working properly again, after unwanted amounts of sales tax had mysteriously started being added to all the CDs. I hope this hasn’t killed any sales, but unfortunately it happened just at the time when we got a lot of new visitors from Martin Hansen’s interview article with me at RISCOScode, so it probably did.
7th September 2009	Added a very nice comment from George Schatzkamer, a satisfied customer, to the Reviews page.
3rd September 2009	Added a downloadable Sampler CD to the site. Indexed the new CD into the catalogue pages as though it were a regular release, with the exception of the chronological index. Added new entries to the composer, artist, orchestra and venue indices to accommodate the last two tracks of the Sampler CD, which currently represent as-yet-unreleased material. Removed the ‘new’ badge from all CDs except the Sampler in the overview and complete index pages. Corrected a small mistake (keyword metadata) in the CD6/2009 page. Updated a few small details in the Recordings page. Added a reference to the Sampler CD in the Samples page. Changed the opening News page to announce the release of the Sampler CD, removing the five previous cover-only entries for CDs 3 to 7.
10th August 2009	Today the hosting company was changed from VodaHost to JustHost, and there was a very brief outage while the site was re-uploaded to the new server. Added extracts from a review of CD3/2009 to the Reviews page.
9th July 2009	New cover graphic created for CD5/2009 to reflect the changed design.
7th July 2009	Successfully worked around an annoying problem that caused WebKit-based browsers (notably Safari) sometimes to fail to draw the wooden (and shadowed) background part of the menu until the page was updated in some way (perhaps by scrolling it or opening a menu over it). Now, I hope it’ll always appear on the initial load. The only apparent down-side to this change is that the site now works even less well in IE 5 on the Mac; but since that obsolete browser isn’t supported anyway, and isn’t capable of rendering the site in a usable manner, that’s hardly important.
5th July 2009	Added an entry for the Bruckner Discography on the Links page.
2nd July 2009	Added a new top-level page called Recordings to the Information section of the menu system, which of course also required the creation of a new menu button. The purpose of the new page is to list the complete set of recordings that will ultimately be issued on CD, and link to the appropriate CD pages for those recordings that have already been released. Future issues are shown in grey; those that have been released are coloured in. Some details are a little sketchy at present, but the table will be updated as appropriate in due course. For the moment it provides a pretty complete overview of what’s available for release. The new page appears in the Information section because, strictly speaking, it isn’t part of the catalogue. In due course, once every recording in the table has been issued, it will indeed provide a summary index of the catalogue, and at that stage may possibly change sections. However, for the moment at least, it is provided for the purposes of information, to give an idea of what’s to come as well as permitting works to be looked up in an alternative way from the regular catalogue indices.
21st June 2009	A logistical problem with CD6/2009 means that it must be temporarily withheld; CD page updated to indicate a release date of 1st August.
19th June 2009	Added an entry (with logo) for the FRMS on the Links page. Arranged the Links page contents into alphabetical order.
10th June 2009	I just remembered that I hadn’t updated the print stylesheet when I updated the collapsing-index system used on four of the index pages, with the result that the Composer, Artist, Orchestra and Venue index pages would no longer print out correctly. I’ve made the necessary changes to fix this, so printing now works as intended again. Received a lovely compliment from Martin Hansen (via Facebook), which I record here as a personal ego-boost: “That’s an impressively slick and tasteful site, Richard. [...] I really like the C inside the O logo too [...]” Very gratifying.
9th June 2009	Replaced the cover image for CD3 for the last time, and removed its launch date as it is now approved and available.
7th June 2009	A massive improvement! Totally revised the four ‘index by’ pages with collapsing indices. The first version of the collapsing index system hid the CD entries below the titles and revealed them when the titles were hovered over. Expanding and collapsing the entries disturbed the vertical scroll position of the page and was generally rather hit-and-miss, in that it was rather too easy to hide or reveal things accidentally. It was also rather difficult to access results towards the bottom of the list. This previous system has now been scrapped in favour of a much superior one that reveals the results in a large column to the right of the page area, to the right of the index titles. This no longer has any effect on the page scrolling, the results are easier to see, and the whole thing is far easier to navigate. I always had reservations about my initial, rather experimental system, but I’m very much happier with the replacement. The new system also works (admittedly with limited success) on the iPhone’s Mobile Safari browser. Added a ‘Chronology’ title to the date index and other one-word titles to the other ‘index by’ pages to make their purpose easier to spot without the need to look at the menu pointer or window title. In all of the ‘index by’ pages, the individual entries can appear at a standard height that accommodates ‘everything’ or a slightly less tall version for listings that don’t need the full height. The composer index page was previously the only page to use short entries because none of the CD entries in that set of listings required the full standard height. Now, though, I have optimised all the listing pages (including the chronology) to use short or standard listings on a per-section basis. This has meant that the number of short entries has increased greatly (they’re now in the large majority). The main thing is that each collapsing section should be internally consistent; all entries should be the same height within each section. The use of the shorter form within each section means that the entries are more efficient because they require less screen height. Replaced the cover image for CD3 (and amended its launch date) at the request of Peter Katin.
5th June 2009	Finally fixed the one remaining IE7 annoyance: removed an unwanted gap between the last menu item and the shading at the top of the ‘wooden panel’ below the menu. IE7 was the only browser to put a gap here (excepting IE8 in IE7 compatibility mode), due to a bug which I’ve worked around at last. Swapped the order of the menu footer (which provides the menu’s wooden background) and the menu itself, so that the footer comes first. This allows the NetSurf browser (version 2.1 tested) to display the menu nearly correctly, whereas previously it slapped the wooden background graphic over all the buttons, so that nothing could be seen. This site is now usable (though far from perfect) in NetSurf, which is good because NetSurf is the only native browser that can even make an attempt at rendering this site for users of RISC OS computers. Improved the ‘favicon’ site icon to have transparency and thus look more circular in various situations.
30th May 2009	Maintenance update: Recreated all the CD entries in the index pages, plus those in the News and Reviews pages. I had stretched the rules of HTML with my initial versions of these listing, and although they seemed to work fine in all the major browsers, it turned out that the technically invalid HTML upset some browsers in unexpected ways. IE7 had minor problems (though IE6 and IE8 were OK), but, most importantly, Firefox behaved extremely strangely. It worked perfectly with my local files on my own system, but rendered the same pages unpredictably when they were online. (Reloading would correct the problem, but it was totally inexplicable.) This was an unacceptable situation, so I spent some time devising an alternative way of creating the CD index links with entirely valid HTML. I had wanted to do this anyway, as using invalid HTML went against my instincts. The Mac browser iCab proved particularly helpful in validating the pages. Expanded the site info on the About page to add details about fonts and links, and, now that the site code is all fully validated, included logos for Valid XHTML, Valid CSS and Let iCab smile. Added this Change Log page.
25th May 2009	8:00pm: Launch of this new Orchestral Concert CDs site! CDs 3 to 7 (inclusive) are listed as the latest releases.