New website - Sarwi.com
We (me and my girlfriend) finally got her website finnished for launch. Hey, it only took two and half year. Alot of things has floated by in the river (Swedish saying) since then. She will use her website for writing, kind of like a blog, upload her new great illustratations and some nice background images for you to download.
The website is run on the same server as this one, with PHP and MySQL as backend. I made a admin interface for here so she can write new stuff and upload here illustration on her own. The site is valid XHTM and no tables where harmed building this site. The headings use a FIR technique, you can read more about it over at A list apart.
Why did it take such a long time to build this site. Alot of things I would say. When I first started I made her just a normal static HTML website where i was the one to help her update the page. After I while i understod that this would not work. I was then starting to learn PHP and MySQL so I thought this would be a great project to use my new knowledge. I did have some problems along the way, mostly with the upload feature. Along the way has there been about 10 redesigns. I and my girlfriend was never really satisfied with the layout of the website. Last redesign was about 3 weeks ago. Also the firs versions of the site used tables, did not validate and there was alot of crappy code. This was before I start learning about webstandards, XHTML and CSS. When starting to seperate content and structure the redesign worked quite easy, just make some changes in the CSS file you’re done.
Well, enough of writing, here it is.
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