A little upgrade
Having a day off is always pleasant, although I always seem to end up doing useful things regarding websites rather than curlcing up in an armchair with a book. Ah, well.
In that useful things category, I have PHP-ed Above the Fold. It now has navigation, headers and footers neatly seperated out and modularised, making page creation that little bit simpler. A couple of ifs and switches allows me to feed titles and h2#id values into the header, personalising each page, and differenciate between different levels of navigation with ease. All that I now need to supply is a couple of variables and the includes and all of it is taken care of.
Maybe editing pure PHP files isn’t as “clever” as using a template class would have been, but for something this small it didn’t seem worth digging out the PEAR classes. Maybe when I start designing some new web apps for this site. Hmm
I also took the time to add a page for the Larren Art site. This lanched a couple of weeks ago and I’m very happy with the end result. You can read more about the design process in the Larren project page.
I am still humming and hawing about including a link to my fannish website on my CV. On the one hand, it’s host to my biggest and best web app - PHP/MySQL backbone, accessible, simple to use and surprisingly popular. It’s got login facilities for registered users and differing levels of access for the admin.
On the other hand, it’s fannish and doesn’t really feel “right” for a CV that’s supposed to be relatively serious.