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20 Aug 2006 The Art of Grax v2.0 (beta)
![[Update]](http://www.graxdomain.co.uk/images/site/Update01.jpg)
The Art of Grax has been revamped.
After a long while of on-off coding action and one final push over the weekend I have remade the website from scratch. The things I've done are:
- Given the whole site a new skin. Not longer will you stare at a sterile "My First Website" white sorry excuse for an online gallery. There's colour and interesting positioning of stuff.
- No more tables! The site has been rebuilt to be XHTML standard compliant.
- It uses a couple of custom-built PHP classes within the code. Nothing super-complex, but it works.
- There's the starts of XML within the site. Each individual picture is generated by PHP making an XML thingy and then the PHP processing it.
- The comments text fields has javascript elements in them for validation (ready for AJAX) but can function just fine without javascript.
- Oh yeah, I've added a few new pictures on the site too.
- Not to mention clearing out all the God-damn spam posts it's been getting!
All in all it a pretty solid rework I think. However there are a couple of things that I've left out (until a later date), partly because I really wanted to replace the old site ASAP and partly because I'm don't fully understand the XML technology yet:
- I originally wanted the site to have elements of AJAX, name the side gallery loading a new picture AJAX-style, but I just don't know how it's done. But it should all be set up for me to plug it in when I do work it out.
- I wanted to look into RSS feed, but I didn't get to adding it to the site. Again I'm not sure how it works but I will figure it out.
I'm pretty happy with what I've got. It is a beta however (basically I'm just covering my ass just in case one of you smart-asses points out an error) so if you do spot something wrong with the site, let me know.
In fact, just tell me what you think of it overall. Any comments, critics or suggestions let me have 'em.
Posted at: 23:47 PM
Your Thoughts
RAZII JINX said on Monday 21st of August 2006 at 09:05:07 PM
Good job! Looks nice, I really like it so far!
Also, SoaP was awesome!