Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Website Updates

Here is how my time is prioritized at the moment:

1. Family (when at home), otherwise, work.
2. Sleep/Eat
3. Other

I'll tell you right ow that #3 is almost non-existent. What little time I have is almost 100% devoted to #1 and #2. Forunately for me, the project I was on at work started winding down recently, and I've had a lot of extra time, so I've spent my breaks and lunch time updating my web site. I haven't landed the updates to the actual web site, but I'll try to do it this week some time.

Things I've done since the web site went live:

1. Completed all "popups".
2. Completed content for all pages (except "About Us").

The issue I need resolved before landing the updates is to create a MySQL database. My subscription gives me 10 databases, but I only need one to house two tables. Without the database set up, the "Buy Yur House" section is broken, since it relies on the two tables to function. Originally, I was going to house all images within the DB itself, but that got rather cumbersome. So now I just house the images in the filesystem and reference the relative paths in one of the tables. I think in the interim, I'll just cut-n-paste the static content from some samples I have to illusterate what it would look like.

I also need to create three PHP files to handle form submission. One will be when a user requests more information on a listed property. The second will be when they want to contact "me" in general. The third is a monster. It's a large form the user fills out in detail about a property they want to sell me.

Lastly, I need to get my banner professionally revised. The logo now looks pretty ... uhm ... dull.

Hopefully, all this will be done soon. Now, time to go to sleep (or was it work? or was it to feed the twins? or was it to eat?). :-P

2 comments:

Steve said...

Since it only takes a few minutes, I went ahead and uploaded the updates. You'll get an error in the "Buy Your House" section because I haven't created the database yet. I also noticed I still need one more popup on the main page, and, of course, the "About Us" section is empty.

Steve said...

Ah screw it. I went ahead and created the database and tables and added some dummy data. It's viewable now.