Sunday, May 08, 2005

Busy Beaver

Well, been heads down all this week when I broke form the current work plan to get a new site (based on an old and much duplicated idea) up and running - based around interesting and email-able web auctions.

I actually started a site that I never finished a couple of years ago, then put it to one side and never went back as other stuff popped up. Wanting to try playing with a MySQL and PHP driven site I dived in and gave it a go. It's a fairly standard template with a few modifications - but its nice and easy to update as I can do it from any web browser. I've had to get my head around a lot of new things doing it - but its been a good experience and I'm pleased with the end result. Oh yes. And you can see it here: Viral Auctions - Coming to an inbox near you!

The haunted Welsh coin... The image is from one of a recent favourites, the haunted coin with the ghost of a Welsh witch - which Nursey sent us a few weeks back. There's only a few stories on there at the moment, but I will be adding more as time goes on, and I have a few old ones I want to add, floating around on various PCs.

As a wider web plan, and to remind myself as to what I'm doing over coming months, I will be making some major changes to some of my more popular sites.

Meltwater.co.uk will be killed off in its current form as an over-arching guide to my art and stuff. It seems pointless to keep my art there as the Meltwater brand was mainly music based, and as its now well and truly dead the site seems out dated. I will leave a little page there about my music and move stuff to David-Lloyd.co.uk which seems the more natural place to have a swanky looking new art site.

Probably my most popular site at the moment in terms of visitors is the (currently being ignored) [DEAD SITE] Digital Gallery site. The navigation makes little sense to me, and I want to trim it down into themed galleries and nice new templates and navigation. So I will get a new domain name for it at some point and redo that site.

All this and I also must get Cheesy Movies Com updated and finished, hopefully with a forum added at some point. Total this all up and it means general busyness for the foreseeable future and beyond. Still, it keeps me out of mischief. :)

Posted by Dio Bach at 12:14

5 Comments:

RR said...: You really have been busy!; 2:06 PM
holly said...: Will you be changing your name to David "I own the web" Lloyd?

Love the auction site! The guy with the record collection! What..how...why...moron...!!! Winning bidder got a hella price though! Look forward to more of those.; 6:29 PM
Roger said...: Just updated my blogroll.
If you want to go for a PHP/MySQL blog I can highly recommend Wordpress.; 8:42 PM
Dio Bach said...: Roger - I've added a link to yourself also - thanks for updating your links. :); 8:49 PM
Roger said...: Many thanks for the link.; 1:37 AM