Noah Skocilich

The Adi Da Up Close site was launched in February, 2007 — ago. Since that time, much has changed in web design and technology. We've kept up with many of those developments on this site. But there were two major exceptions: we needed a more contemporary site design; and we needed the site to be mobile-friendly. I'm happy to say that the Adi Da Up Close site is now being "upgraded" in these two major ways! A very big thanks to devotee Noah Skocilich, who is also the Managing Director of GiniLytics IT Solutions. In service to Avatar Adi Da's great work of spiritually liberating all beings, Noah made his highly skilled team of web developers available to me to come up with a new design that is both contemporary in style, and mobile-friendly. I'm delighted with the result, and I'm envisioning all our site visitors enjoying the new site as well. Thank you so much, Noah!

The Adi Da Up Close site is huge: nearly 2,000 web pages at this point! It probably will take more than a year to convert the entire site to the new design. While we could wait until we completed that, and then release the entire new site all at once, I've decided instead to release the new site incrementally, making web pages in the new design style available as we convert them. This will allow several things to happen:

• Site visitors will immediately begin to benefit from the pages that have been converted. This will be felt especially by the mobile phone visitors to our site, who are increasing in number with each passing year. (Statistics as of Q1 2023: Web visitors spent 56.8% of their online time on mobile phones; and 95.8% of all people who surf the Web use mobile phones to do so, at least now and then.)
• More people will find our website, because our search engine listings on Google should immediately start getting higher rankings. (Google prefers mobile-friendly pages.)

As of , we have upgraded approximately of the website, including the following pages ( out of a total of 1,904 pages):

• the Home Page
• We have completely converted all pages in the following sections of the website:
  • Introduction — 11 pages.
  • Finding Adi Da — 97 pages.
  • the Audio/Video Library — the 1,204 individual audio/video clip pages, along with the pages for listing and selecting clips.
  • Blessings, Miracles, and Extraordinary Evidence — 76 pages.
  • Children and Young People in Adidam — 8 pages.
  • Easy Death: Transcending Mortality and Death in the Divine— 26 pages.
• We have converted the main (index) page for the following sections of the website:
  • COMING SOON

The conversion of the 1200+ audio/video pages was a matter of an upgrade to the program that generates those audio/video pages, which we have completed.

However, that left 700+ more pages that had been added to the site manually, over the 17 years of the site's existence. When it became clear that converting each of these remaining pages by hand was averaging about an hour per page (or 700 hours — about 90 full days of work, doing nothing but page conversion), I realized I had to come up with a faster approach. So I built a programming tool that did much of a page's conversion automatically. It might still leave me with some cleanup work to do, to address all the things the tool didn't know about, but that led to pages averaging more like 5-10 minutes of cleanup work (after running the conversion tool on it), which was much faster than an hour per page — still a little over a solid week of work, but far better than 90 days.

Of course, during this period when we're upgrading our site, a visit to our site may include some pages in our new design style, and some in our old design style. Hopefully you won’t find this experience confusing! In the meantime, we’ll continue to work as fast as we can to finish the conversion of all the remaining, old-style pages.

If you run into any technical problems with the new site, please let me know.