All 9 entries tagged Web Sites & Programming

I'm planning to come up with a new design for my blog soon, then use that for posting anything that would have previously been on my web site (if I'd gotten round to it that is). Saves my the trouble of making a CMS or writing HTML pages, with the added advantage that some people will probably read it! I also need to tidy up the tags from the old entries since they're still as they were in the categories system.

Added: Please let me know if the JavaScript for the email link and next/previous photo [don't] work properly in your favourite browser. Thanks.

It's so useful that I've now removed my old Apache & MySQL services and instead set up one of these for each of the web sites I am working on. That way I just run the server for the site I'm working on and I don't have to worry about virtual hosts or what settings will affect what sites. It also has the advantage that when I'm finished with a project I can just drag it to my Archive folder, and if I want to come back to it later I don't have to set up the web server and databases all over again, just run start.bat and it's ready to use again!

• System design is preceded by system specification
• Success is having sufficiently limited goals

This made me laugh – they may sound obvious, but are still where I always go wrong and why I've never managed to release (or even complete) any of the software I've started!

The idea is to have a menu common to all parts of the site, but use frames to outsource the weblog to here, the photo albums to somewhere else (currently investigating Blogger.com using Hello and Picasa), and possibly have different designs for the different sections. Each section would then be a web site in it's own right when removed from the frames.

Home Page
I spent a while on the menu, which is based on my current site design, but the right hand side was an afterthought. I think it's OK as a welcome page but would need more work if I was to use it for much of the site.

Blog
The menu entry is selected and a "remove frames" button is added. When I finally update my web site I will stop using "weblog" (I do on my current site as I've not changed it yet) and use "blog" to match the rest of Warwick.

ProgMania
This is another web site I plan to create when I get round to it. (At this rate that's never!) It illustrates how I can create other web sites and incorporate them into my own site.

I thought about reducing the menu size for the framed sites by using images without labels, but I think this would be less user-friendly.

Comments welcome.

Dave-Miller.com
This one's recognisable, but long to type.

DJMz.com
This one's short, but not very memorable if you don't know my initials.

What do you think?