Website Online Again, with Contest

On Wednesday, I got our website online again, rather than having users taken directly to this blog. Of course, I'm going to keep this blog available as a link from the main website for the future, as a reference/history, and I suspect I'll keep writing in it for at least a couple more weeks as we try to finish upgrades and maintenance related to our move.

I went through and tried to update as much of the site as possible when I was working on it yesterday. I still need to get better photos of the front of our new building (preferably after I paint the top of the entryway, so it looks better). I also need to go through and make some major revisions to the staff page, with photos for the few people who are missing, and biographies updated.

Finally, I went through the online menus page, and cross-referenced it to a copy of our new printed menus. I'm glad that I did. In the process of updating the online version, I found approximately 15 more minor mistakes in our printed version. I thought that was pretty incredible, especially since both Alison and myself, and two of the other staff members, went through the printed version with a fine-tooth comb after we printed the first test copy. None of the mistakes is very major, but there are enough of them that when I get back to Sackville (I'm working in Edmonton for a couple days right now), I'm going to completely reprint the menus.

I also decided to put together a small contest, since it seems that a lot of people have been following our ongoing process by reading this blog regularly. I put a notice on the main page of our regular site (www.TheOlive.ca) to let people know how to enter. We're going to be having a Grand Reopening night or weekend coming up in a few weeks, once most of the rest of the fixit jobs are done, and so for the contest, we're giving away a total of four complimentary dinners for two, which will be valid on the Grand Reopening Weekend.