Update – 19th May 2012

Messed about with the design a bit.  Still not happy with it though.  I wish I was a designer :(

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Update – 5th May 2012

I moved the photography section to the root so that visiting http://notails.com goes directly to the photography.   I got tired of the message thing breaking every time firefox updated its version, and I believe ‘portal’ style homepages are out of vogue.

I also made some improvements to the photography section.  Specifically …

  • The zooming works better on the single image view page
  • I altered the click behaviour of the random image part of the homepage, so that clicking on the image opens it (instead of getting another random image) and clicking the title gets another random image.
  • Added the name of the gallery the image belongs to to the link that takes you to that gallery.
  • Added a ‘recently added’ part.  It grabs the images that share the newest upload date.  (Haven’t quite worked out how to handle uploads that span midnight.  If I upload say 10 images, and five of them make it to the website at 23:59 and the next five make it at 00:00 then only the next five will be shown on the ‘recently added’ part, which isn’t the behaviour I want)

Things I have thought about doing…

  • Incorporate the comments into the gallery view page, so that there is a graphic which you hover over, which then queries the database using ajax and pulls back that image’s comments, and includes a button to add a comment.
  • Completely overhaul the visual design.  It is currently an “it’ll do for now” design.

…There you go.

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Working on an improved photography section.

http://notails.com/photography/test.php

I am working on an improved photography section.   It uses jquery/ajax to load the bigger thumbnails, so you get the smaller thumbnail grid sooner and the illusion of a quicker page load (half the page does load quicker but the full page probably takes about the same time as it’s the same content)

It uses PDO for database access so it’s supposed to be more secure.  I have also tried to streamline the code so that it’s easier to read should I have to look at it or edit it in future.

Thinks still to do…

  • Add the comments functionality (display and add comments using jquery/ajax)
  • Change/improve the visual design.
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Added a leave a message feature to the front page.

It’s quite secure,  except that if someone wants to swear or be rude the code can’t detect that.  I would have to remove such messages manually.

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New host and new blog!

I’ve moved my website to hostgator from hostmonster.

I will move the old blog posts soon.  (Assuming I can do so with an sql insert)

 

Edit:  As you can see I was able to insert the old blog entries (and comments).  Just needed to alter the ids of the new ones so that the old ones didn’t clash.

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Popular video (by the usual standards)

Somehow my latest Black Ops video has had about 120 views in under 24 hours. That’s a lot more than usual. There’s nothing particularly special about this video compared to the other high kd winning free for all videos I have. I am guessing I picked the right word for the tags.

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Brian Eno – The Cockpit Ensemble.

Very sleep inducing.

If only that were true of me.

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notails.com

Site is gathering interest now. Just when I was thinking the ‘experiement’ was over. (And it is that folks, an experiment. A way for me to learn stuff)

I’ve added an admin section for me to approve new submissions without having to do it all manually via ftp and phpmyadmin.

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My own www.whatsbetter.com

I used to love the website www.whatsbetter.com. It is now a parked (not the same website any more). For a while I’ve wanted to re-create it myself as a kind of PHP learning excercise. Well I have done so, albeit in a very simplistic way.

http://notails.com/whatsbetter.php

It will evolve over time (assuming I keep working on it) and I will eventually create a moderated uploader so that anyone can add images. (moderated meaning they won’t make it onto the list until I’ve approved them)

[Edit 18sep09] The uploader is now operational. There is a link to it underneath the images being paired. I have also made some minor layout changes.

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Fallout 3 – Keep the game alive

Fallout 3 challenges to keep the game alive after maxing the level.

  • Get/Do all the expansion packs (the broken steel pack increases your level cap to 30)

You can do them at any point in the game (except for broken steel which yo do after project purity). Some are easy, some are hard.

  • Get all the S.P.E.C.I.A.L bobbleheads.
  • Get all the Skill bobbleheads.
  • Raise all your S.P.E.C.I.A.L skills to 10.
  • Find all the skill books.
  • Raise all your skills to 100 using skill books (you can’t raise them all to 100 just by levelling, Unless you cheat)
  • Do all the missions.
  • Do lots of trading to make yourself rich.

(use the comments to suggest more)

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