Today’s accomplishment: making the beginnings of a photo gallery on the LSM site. Compares a table of events to a table of photos, lists the events where there are photos, links to a page of thumbnails and descriptions for said event, and those links open pop-up windows with larger versions of each photo.
For seasoned codeheads, this is no big whoop. For me, it’s applying what I’ve learned in Visual Basic for Applications and Microsoft Access at work to PHP and SQL at home. And there are still things I need to learn and investigate, like the imagecopyresampled() function that could automatically make the thumbnails from the full-sized images. Hmm.
This weekend? E-mailing the owners of the broken Frontpage site and offering my services for a pittance. I need the experience, and I’m actually kind of excited about taking on a new project. As long as they understand that it won’t be done super-quick; I have other things that take precedence, like my portfolio and prior commitments to LSM and my contracting job (if it ever gets started). I’ll let you know how it all pans out.