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New site...
29 April 1999
MattWright has this to say
about iMacs, "iMac is the whore of computers. It 'wears' all this
cheap 'clothing.'"
I have finished the HTML mockup of my new web site. It looks
okay under Netscape for Linux, I think it will look better under
systems that have TrueType Fonts. It took me a while since I had an
HTML tutorial opened while I was typing out the HTML, because I wanted
everything to be syntactically correct. It also uses a ton of style
sheets (whereever it seemed right). This makes it easier to make my entire site all look the same.
This mockup is my goal to shoot
for. Basically it looks just like my site will, except everything is
static, rather than dynamic. Here's what is left:
- Write a PHP script that generates 'generic' excerpts of HTML
on demand. Basically this would be like a function that would display
a menu, the journal entries, the page title, etc.
- Write a new journal interface that uses mySQL (rather than mSQL
which is far inferior and what I am using now).
- Write a calendar interface (far simpler than the current
calendar).
- Write a 'siteWatch' interface (you'll see).
- etc..
Of course, some steps will take longer than the others. The journal
will take a while to get used to, just because there is so much
involved with writing it.
Also, I plan to add a message board where you can reply to all of
my posts and write whatever. This is similar to slashdot's way of
doing stuff except that I will have a very throroughly coded message
board. (I'll probably just write something that looks exactly like
Matt's unreleased WWWBoard).
I think this part will take a while and may be something I work on
after the new site is up. Of course, in theory, this shouldn't take
too long for me.
I'll also add a small survey system in time... you know... I'm pretty
much ganking stuff from slashdot, left and right.
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