03.15.07
New and Shiny
At last all of your questions can be answered! Okay, no one actually asked me any questions, but let’s pretend that there are dozens of people dying to know about my super-secret web development project.
Introducing… Sangaree Connection!
Sangaree Connection is a project that I am starting with some fellow residents of our subdivision. We have become sick and tired of the lawlessness in our neck of the woods and want to organize our neighbors to fight back and build community spirit. The goal of the website is to give the residents a forum to discuss their concerns with each other, as well as earning some money to fund community projects like a crime watch.
This was a very exciting project for me because it forced me to go way outside my comfort level and deal with PHP, databases, JavaScript and other scary, scary DHTML tools. I installed WordPress on the server and I am using it to manage Sangaree Connection’s blog. I am quite happy with WordPress thus far. I will probably be dumping Blogger very soon and use WordPress for Once Upon a Time. Husband installed a message board and online calendar also, although I did all of the integration with the rest of the site.
By the way, Internet Explorer can kiss my butt. I hate that broswer. For best viewing of Sangaree Connection, I recommend Firefox or Netscape. IE will work fine too, but I just don’t like it.
said,
03.16.07 at 5:28 am
Congratulations, doesn’t it feel good?
I grew up one neighborhood over.
Hey, I’m in the process of building a searchable database, can I pick your brain if I need to? I’m new to the whole PHP and MySQL thing. (OK, I’m new to all of it, but I got the first part of our site up, the forums and blog just fine.
said,
03.16.07 at 5:34 am
It sure does feel good.
Thank you.
You can pick my brain, not sure how much help I’d be, but I’ll try!
said,
03.19.07 at 5:39 pm
I should have said this a couple of days ago. Your new Sangaree site is beautiful. Beyond the technical stuff you had to come up to speed on, just from an aesthetic point of view, it’s beautiful. The colors, style, the layout and freespace, the organization and menu structure. All very good - no, more than that: Wonderful, excellent.
Maybe I’ve not seen all your stuff for a while so I haven’t seen the evolution, but you today truly have a fantastic eye and intuition for web design. Your designs were what initially caught my eye, and your latest (as far as I have seen) work is simply great.
I hope the right people will see what you are doing and give you the place and space to keep taking your talent to higher and higher levels.
I’m proud to be able to say I recognized it early on, and I hope I can see it - your talent - grow to its full potential.
Boy, that sounds cold or unfriendly, or … what? But I want you to know what I think, for whatever it’s worth.
Like I said, I’m proud to know I recognized the potential early.
So there.