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Website Updates

Here are the version release notes.

The file system was revamped & enhanced.
This should make production releases easier to perform. Previously, releasing to production would require custom modifications to the production deployed code base during the production release. Then those one-off changes would have to be mapped back into the development branch. They weren’t fitting in smoothly. So extra development work was needed to shoe-horn them back into the main dev branch, which could be checked in to the code repository. Also, it was a challenge to port other features from my other sites to this website. I tend to do that to cut down on the development time. So I took a look at all of my websites & created a master folder structure of what I needed to deploy. Then I created a PERL script to generate the entire folder structure for this site & others, similar to how NPM Install might work. Then I moved everything into the new folder structure, which can now support multiple clients & a shared server. It can also support multiple sections of the server, which support each client. Then I re-wired up the entire site & enhanced it. Now I can add more pages.

Admin Dashboard: New sections have been added to edit Cryptocurrencies & Stocks.

The Clomp Release Manager technology has been added.
This allows for separate versions of the code to be uploaded into production folders like /123/ or /263/. It creates an easy way to switch versions from the currently working copy (AKA: the "green" version), to the released version with its cool new features (AKA: the "blue" version). This allows for blue server testing/verification in production environments before &/or after the release version number was changed from green to blue (AKA: the cut-over). If something goes wrong with the blue version, it’s super easy & fast to revert to the previous green version by simply changing the version number back. The code doesn’t need to be reverted. Nor re-uploaded. Nor patched. Nor fixed. Downtime is minimal. Ex. 15 seconds vs. a few hours to fix the code.
The Clomp Components CSS & JS Loader has been added. It automatically loads the .css & .js files for each component, which Clomp has designed & is part of the Clomp Platform component library AKA: Clomp Website Builder.

The Web: Versions page has been created.
Colors have been replaced. The site was beige with red links. Now it has a background gradient, with green links.

The Clomp Web Development Platform has been added. It generates the global navigation links, the footer links & uses templates, plus HTML partials to generate pages.
Clomp Components have been added, including the Clomp Captchya technology feature.
i18n: 4 Language Files have been created: English, Spanish, French & German.
Multiple databases, database tables & stored procedures (SPROCs) have been built.