Category Archives: Web development

Car Control School website

UPDATE: Scratch everything. I will do everything in a wordpress blog format.

UPDATE2: I am actually very impressed at how flexible wordpress is for designing websites… I’m thinking of doing all future web designs in wordpress.

I will need rollover images (at least for the 3 main images)

Features to implement:

– add blog section. Ability to edit blog. Excerpts of the blog (the first dozen words or so) get displayed on the side bar.
– Side bar displays news, and new/upcoming schools.
– Need to decide if the side bar will be present in all pages or just some. Upcoming schools should be visible all the time. Upcoming school should have a link to the school type page.
– Ability to edit the school schedule. School schedule page should be generate dynamically.

Changes to make:

– program a simple news/blog tool in PHP and integrate it.

Looking for ideas for a wedding photography website

– Free web design templates found here at www.oswd.com
– Photography gallery that doesn’t use flash HERE
– Site I like the look of for a wedding photography site. HERE
– Also interesting. How to make a gallery using scriptaculous. HERE
– A photographer’s website that does more then just weddings. HERE

– Decided to use SmoothGallery 2.0 for my online photograhy site . Details can be found HERE
I will use it in conjuntion with the “How to make your own gallery” php script to allow for dynamic editing (adding/deleting) of images.
– How to integrate the SmoothGallery 2.0 into a WordPress blog (will need this for my photo blog) HERE

Looking for ideas for wedding websites. Looking at this site of Karri North, found some interesting photos. Not all photos are razor sharp. I guess it’s the emotion captured that’s more important then focus?. Not all photos are buttery smooth (lots of shots with plenty of grain/noise).
Also, at first I didn’t quite like the fact that the gallery spanned a new full screen window, but after viewing 20-40 images, the large images really work.

TWMS: spam because of online forms

It looks like the current form on the TWMS site is attracting a lot of spam.
I need to add some sort of CAPTCHA to prevent bots from sending messages. I just added a checkbox, which should slow messages down, but I will implement a random text image captcha as found here.
This should prove good enough, but I need time to implement it.

Come to think of it, I should probably refactor the portion of the page that generates the html code for the pop up boxes.

Spa website: more planning

Implement this.

With the above implementation should likely come a few extra types of classes of data.
The only problem with adding more types of data is that a different type of admin page needs to be written. Currently the admin page can edit the entire site, which is nice. I think the all encompassing design currently in use, is best, since it can be tailored to many different uses. Continue reading