Ajax Updates

I started working on adding support for Ajax updates to the Web site.  This allows the Web pages to update themselves without refreshing the entire page.  I started with the main page, and only updating the basics: temperature, humidity, pressure, wind speed, and wind direction.  So far it appears to be working well.  It requests new weather data every 10 seconds or so.  The weather station software only uploads the weather information once per minute, so the Web page doesn’t get new data more often than that.  So I need to change the interval for uploading weather data to the Web site.  Then I can work on making the Ajax code more general and use it on all of the Web pages.

I’ve also been looking at some CSS templates in an effort to make the Web site look a little more attractive.  Up till now the focus has been on getting everything working.  There may still be a few bugs in the calculations waiting to be found, as I probably missed something in my move from Java to PHP.  But I feel like I can put some time into aesthetics at this point.  Moving to a new template will be quite a bit of work.  But hopefully the outcome will be worth the effort.