new web page.

[katster]

okay...after a lot of work, I (mostly) completed a project.

the brand new retstak.org is up. Not like it matters or anything, but...I did it...

Comments would be nice or something...

Comments

What ho, a comment!

[mrfnord.livejournal.com]

I don't know squat about php code, so I can't comment on elegance or lack thereof (of course, I've never really cared about the elegance of code, as long as it works. Which is why I'm not a programmer. ;).

The overall site design looks good. If you get bored you might want to fiddle with the size of the title bar -- maybe shrink the logo graphic a little so it's not quite so domineering.

Other than that, 's a nice, clean design, something lacking in most webpages these days.

Looks good, but....

[lurkerdrome.livejournal.com]

PHP for the sake of PHP? XD~

Ah well, your site, your playground. ^_^

Re: Looks good, but....

[shadur.livejournal.com]

Well, of course. How else would you learn if not by practice, and where else to practise?

Re: Looks good, but....

[katster.livejournal.com]

argh...LJ ate the first version of this.

Anyway, it's not completely frivolous use of php. Think of yourself adding something to the bar down the left. Now think of having to do it for every single fscking page on the site. Now, think of yourself using PHP to call the file in, so that when you make a change, you only have to change one file.

Gratituous use of php? I hope not. :)

[shadur.livejournal.com]

And as a side note, I'd suggest postgreSQL over mysql for various reasons. Views being one of them (mysql doesn't support 'em, which sucks)

[katster.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah, but right now, I'm just playing. And I do have a mySQL book, and I don't have a PostgresSQL book...and yeah, if it comes time to switch, it does. But right now, it's pretty much for learning purposes.

And since I have next to no database fu, what's a view?

[phenyx.livejournal.com]

IIRC views are like queries that are stored in the database, to save you re-executing them every time. Or something. I've never used them myself, so I could be wrong...