New mask promotion on costume renting website

Finally I have started promoting foam latex masks on my costume renting website. When somebody searches for something and gets no results, then the following image with some text appears:

The photo took a few minutes to make which included putting on the mask and holding up another while setting up the tripod.
The main purpose of this is to see how many people are actually interested.

Seven new realistic foam latex masks ordered

Last night I finally ordered seven mostly realistic looking foam latex masks from Greyland Film in Europe. One of them is a replacement for another one that got torn, the other six are new faces to use for costumes or just simply for some parties. I am very much looking forward to trying them all on.

Barney themed children's birthday

There are several here that are having a Barney themed birthday for their 1, 2 and 3 year old children and are desperate to get a Barney costume for the event so that Barney can make an appearance. There are some remotely similar looking suits available, but they are rare and difficult to get. Somebody asked me to wear one of those at the end of October. It will be really hot in that suit around that time of the year here in the southern hemisphere.

My late father's 60th birthday

Yesterday (5 October 2009) was supposed to be my father's 60th birthday. He died in 2008 after three years of chronic kidney failure. His ex-fiancé and myself went to one of the restaurants that he enjoyed going to just for remembering him with things that he loved to do. It would have been great if he was along.

Website W3C compliancy and SEO

In the past couple of days, I have tried to fix various small W3C compliancy issues on my costume renting website. This also included more unique H1 tags for SEO purposes. The W3C related work is still ongoing, but should not take too much longer. SEO work is more tedious due to checking all pages for unique titles and content. The photo section is also going to take some work as well as the search results.

All of this effort is in the long run for proepr rendering by various web browsers and devices as well as for the search engines which are essentially also browsers. It is quite important to have the HTML standards compliant for various reasons.