Y'all, As most of you probably don't know, the results page that you see on the website is actually a portion of the overall project spreadsheet that I have been keeping on the project since day one. The problem is, because of the growth of the project, the sheet has just about become unmanageable. It is a real beast to keep updated and getting the information from the sheet to the website is a very manual and time-intensive exercise. So, I am going to spend the next couple of weeks working on converting the sheet over to a database. This is going to take a bit of time and more than likely, I won't post any results for the next couple weeks while I get this done. Probably the biggest thing you will notice by my doing this is that results that come in will be displayed immediately on the website...they won't languish for a couple weeks waiting for me to get them transferred to the website. I will be writing PHP code to pull the data from the database any time the DNA results page is hit. This is a much better way to do it and one I should have done a long time ago. So, I appreciate everyone's patience as I make this happen. - Adrian

Adrian: Thanks for all your hard work!!! Tina ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adrian Williams" <stickamw@earthlink.net> To: <WILLIAMS-DNA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 10:14 PM Subject: [WILLIAMS-DNA] DNA Results Page - Making Some Much Needed Changes > Y'all, > > As most of you probably don't know, the results page that you see on > the website is actually a portion of the overall project spreadsheet > that I have been keeping on the project since day one. The problem is, > because of the growth of the project, the sheet has just about become > unmanageable. It is a real beast to keep updated and getting the > information from the sheet to the website is a very manual and > time-intensive exercise. > > So, I am going to spend the next couple of weeks working on > converting the sheet over to a database. This is going to take a bit of > time and more than likely, I won't post any results for the next couple > weeks while I get this done. > > Probably the biggest thing you will notice by my doing this is that > results that come in will be displayed immediately on the website...they > won't languish for a couple weeks waiting for me to get them transferred > to the website. I will be writing PHP code to pull the data from the > database any time the DNA results page is hit. This is a much better > way to do it and one I should have done a long time ago. > > So, I appreciate everyone's patience as I make this happen. > > - Adrian > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > WILLIAMS-DNA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >