OK

So it’s taking a while, but slowly the site is beginning to get somewhere. Photos are getting organized and posted, I’ve got my music uploaded so that I can listen to it from work, and the all important fantasy scoreboards seem to be mostly working. I’ll get my 100Gb’s worth yet…

I still have to upload a few more pics and update some of the directory paths, but I think I finally found a workable database driven photo system. Upload a picture once, but post it into multiple albums. Store full resolution images, but show thumbnails, or sized copies. Plus the whole thing can be wrapped so that it keeps most of the look and feel of the main site. Still have to figure out how to get sub albums to show up better, but… For the nerdily inclined, I’m using PHPWebGallery and Photon. You can see the unwrapped view here.

The music is made accessable using mp3act. It is AJAX-tastic, but doesn’t have an easy wrapper into the rest of the WordPress site. I’ll see if I can’t rig something sometime. In a bid to not get sued by The Man, I’ve password protected that section. Let me know if you want a user account.

As for everything else, I’m using a modified version of the Equix theme on WordPress.  Random quotes are made possible by McQuote.  Tweaking is done using WordPress-phpMyAdmin and EZStatic.  Email notification written by Watershed Studios.  Theoretically you can read this on your blackberry because of something Alex King wrote.  And GoDaddy is letting me keep the whole thing on their servers for the next two years for about a dollar a Gb, which seems pretty reasonable now that everything is up and running.

Now, back to the lab…