Drifting apart, creeping together

The big cleansing operation of images that relate to Demotech projects and design did not stop at renaming and ordering pictures. It was a painful discovery that the description of designs in our FileMakerPro database had got far behind the description of the same designs in the our website. To make the confusion even bigger, names given at an earlier state did not match the present development. Even worse it became, when names and descriptions in fact partly related to other records.
By now, I have sorted out most of this mess. Giving names to designs is important as they should be descriptive. Each name should be composed out of two short words. The two-letter code that has to be drawn from the first letter of these two word components is used to indicate and sort related images. When the logical name of one design resulted in a letter code that already was taken, I had a problem. It took all my fantasy to think of a different logical name, leading to a two-letter code that was still free. Most of the letter code combinations found at last look familiar, but I am afraid some of them will never stop to confuse me.
To prevent this mess to return, I asked Marc, Demotech's web designer, if the FileMakerPro-database of designs could interact with the MySQL-database of our website. He expects that will not be too difficult to achieve. If this indeed will become possible it will make a big difference. The FileMaker database contains more that a hundred descriptions of designs. Only twenty of them have been transferred to the web. The transfer would made eighty more designs accessible. Though this is of course what I strive for, in practice all this new information asks for translation into English, better pictures and bringing text up to the present level of development. This is a massive amount of work that can only be done over time.
The big advantage however is that work on any record only has to be done once, instead of the confusing two times in the present situation.