Saturday, May 9, 2009

Final Project!


It's done! Click the image above to see it.

I decided to have fun with it - so I did a Web site for my Album of the Year winners (I'm a music geek). You can scroll through all the winners (all the info, art, everything is pulled from databases via mySQL and php, so there's only one actual page other than the home/register and login pages). Besides reading what I've written about each album (that took a long time!) you can view a YouTube video, check out the tracklist and then log in and comment on each album, and assign star ratings to them, which will appear with your post (as well as your name, hometown and timestamp).

I've also used some basic javascript to show the years when you hover on and off the thumbs on the left nav. For an easter egg, click my name on the bottom.

Actually, I'm still not quite done - I want to add album trivia, some embedded podcasts I've made, a list of album runnerups...but I had to be realistic to meet the class' deadline. But I definitely plan to build on this, as I learn new skills, and use it in the future. I want to take a Flash class and incorporate that on the homepage.

See you all in a few hours!

Saturday, April 18, 2009

Class 9 In-Class Assignment - MattPress, now with comments

It's ugly, but it works! Click here for MattPress!

Homework Class 8 - Blogging Site

Still working on setting up a foreign key so it posts usernames instead of user id numbers. But here it is: MattPress!

Homework - Class 7

Realized I never republished the link from last week after I finished. Here it is - Mattr.com, the best photo uploading site on the Web!

Here's the link.

Friday, April 10, 2009

Ugh

Okay, I'm not getting this. We really need to cover this material in class tomorrow. My site remains basically the same. Got the image names to break in the txt file (/n or \n never worked so I put in a break tag) but all I can get is for the first image to show up on the page so I didn't bother to put it in the right page. I am having a lot of difficulty with this. I hope I'm not the only one.

Here's the link.

Wednesday, April 8, 2009