PES Website

"It's getting there."
"No idea when it'll be done."

That's been me for the last two weeks, and in reality I'm not sure that I'm much further along then I was 14 days ago. I'm supposed to be in charge of the "Agents" for the new monitoring system. Little programs (not php code) that will run on a couple of servers around the internet and keep tabs on all of our services/equipment, and report their findings back to the main system and trigger alerts when something breaks.

Late yesterday afternoon the website here was updated from our subversion repository, and included in that update was the start of our new Network Status/Monitoring system. It is nowhere near complete, but it is beginning to take shape enough to start tinkering with it on the live site and collecting data.

What we have so far is the beginnings of the "master" for the monitoring system, integrated into our Drupal setup here. What is done so far in the code includes:

Had a bunch of changes uploaded to the live site over the last week, the only really noticeable one being the switch from "Share This" To "Add This" icons. The ShareThis icon just didn't look right to me on our layout for some reason. A petty reason to change, I know, but it irked me something fierce, just think that the AddThis based buttons look better.

Today our "Resources" section of the website received a nice little boost with the addition of Video Tutorials for cPanel; a collection of 31 flash-based videos to help clients learn their way around the cPanel system.

We look forward to continuing to expand the Resources section of website, providing more content and help for webmasters everywhere over the upcoming months.

Occasionally we'll get an email from a client or visitor that makes us realize something incredibly simple. I guess sometimes it's the "easy little details" that are most easily forgotten. In this case the email was a simple:

"I love the new site, but why no RSS feeds of News and the Blog? That would make it easy for me to keep tabs on whats going on, I could just add the feeds to my newsreader..."

This of course started a conversation on our end that went something like this:

"RSS Feeds? Doesn't Drupal handle that for us?"

"Internet Explorer hates us!"
"Good, I hate it just as much."

We are pleased to announce that after quite a bit of time, planning, and coding work, the newly designed Pure Energy Systems website is being launched today. While the most obvious result of this is a (much needed) new look and feel for the website, there are some other important changes involved that we felt we needed to let everyone know about.

1) The old faqs.purenrg.com, and support.purenrg.com sites will both be going offline shortly. The functionality of both these sites has already been integrated into the new Pure Energy website.

"Technological change is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal." --- Albert Einstein

The current (well, the "old system" if your reading this) Pure Energy Systems website / management system was originally conceived many many moons years ago, during the earliest days of planning what would become the current incarnation Pure Energy Systems. At the time coding began on the actual system we had a rough outline of what we wanted the system to do, and what functionality it was going to need; the list looked something like this:

One of the ideas we're pushing extremely hard with the new site here is enhancing communication and obtaining feedback; basically pushing the client-interaction idea as far as we can. To that end one of things we're implementing here is the PureBlog; a way to communicate ideas to our clients and hopefully get feedback/comments back from them as well.