Everything started to come together in late November 2014.
We we searching around for an "affordable" webhost, when we happened upon
www.hostripples.com which featured a hosting plan for $1.00 per month.
We read a few reviews, and most people seemed happy with the service.
In October we had renewed our domain name cleaverb.net , just to retain the name.
No one ever bothered with cleaverb.info or cleaverb.org but cleaverb.com
was taken up a few years ago when we let it slip out of our control. We never thought
that anyone would take the name. We sincerely like cleaverb.net better anyway...
So we begin 2015 with a new host - slowly we started the process of resizing the pages
from 1024 wide to 1280 wide. In the past, we had always made it a point to leave the
page size at 100% , but it really can have a drastic effect on the appearance of your pages.
If you have ever written html, you know what we mean..
Next, the easiest thing to do was to improve and update the photos for the performers profiles.
Then around December 14th we started to update the Biography info for all the 'soloists' from Blestyaschie and Via-GRa,then we would start on the bands.. and we thought that
we could get that done before New Years Day 2015. Maybe we got more 'picky' about the
text, or maybe it just gets too detailed. But here we are January 16, 2015 and we still have
a few biographies to update. I should say, Thank You google translate!!! Without it we would be
stuck sitting here with a dictionary in one hand, staring at a monitor, wonder how to 'put that in English' ! The Goog is good.
Our next project was to update the photos on our Favorite Artists page; it doesn't seem like much of a task until you realize 8 hours later that it still needs work.
Then we went back to the biography writing; it seems as if none of the current websites actually have biographies for the artists. A few short years ago, every music website from apple to zvuki.ru
had a picture and at least an out of date summary. Times have changed, now its the music that matters. Hey, it is a big business, so we can accept that as fact. I guess i have always enjoyed a good
article to read, so we make it a point to have some description of the people who perform
our favorite music.
Near the end, we finally found inspiration to update the soloist photos:
we found tons of great pictures on VK.com, but we realized that we had some of the best photographs
on our computer . So most of those photos are historical, we have saved them for years and years.
We tried to represent each with a photo from their 'early days' in their respective groups.
And we love the end result. I hope you do, too.
In the middle, we decided to add a few Tribute pages. I have been wanting to create a page
for Tose Proeski since around 2010, when we first downloaded an album of his fantastic music.
We brought back an up to date versions of TikTak , Paola and Chiara, and BWO.
In the future, we may say goodbye to our Technoir, Boomkat, and Total pages,
finding information on these groups is too difficult. Not that we have lost the admiration for the
performers, we still have the music and enjoy it on occasions.
Well so now i have spilled my guts of the behind the scenes, and hopefully that will keep it off the front page...
We haven't had many visitors of late, but it is kind of a relief from the days when we would
average between 3 and 5 Gigabits of bandwidth. And we never heard a compliment or a complaint.
Above all, if you are on my pagers and you are reading this, i sincerely hope that i haven't
done you wrong . and you don't hate me. music is a powerful thing.
i love you.
cleaverb .
