| Web Sites ... Here are technical details on
some of the sites that I've built along the way.
This site - Constructed with Visual Web Developer 2005 Express and .NET 2; the former
version used ASP.NET with Visual
Studio 7.1 and .NET 1.1. The site features two user controls for
navigation (on the left and the footer), as well as a CSS style sheet for
the colors. Did a favicon, but you don't see much
unless you use Firefox for your browser. Wilcox
Engineering is on a Windows server at Host Department.
My sister site is Wilcox
Estates. This is an older site that I made with Microsoft's Front
Page; it runs on an Apache server at Host Department. If you've used FP
before, you can quickly recognize the style; the pages aren't all that
original looking. However, say what you will, FP muddles on through to get
a presentable site up quickly. Sure makes photos a
lot easier than VWD.
Update 4/08 on Wilcox Estates: Did a rebuild of the
site using
Microsoft Expression Web, which is the follow-up to the now-deprecated Front
Page web builder. It worked out surprisingly well, and I hooked in a php
application with MySQL to handle the new photo albums. The selection of house
photos, on the other hand, I had created in FP, and copied them into Expression
Web for display. There is NO similar capability in the new product ... you've
got to buy Expression Media to get that.
Update 8/08 on Wilcox Estates: Decided it wasn't
a good idea to put too much out on the web for viewing by persons of questionable
intent. If you'd like to visit it, send me an email
and I'll send you the username/password.
Auto-Bus runs on a Windows server at
Host Department. It's built using SiteStudio 1.6, a product of Positive Software, which comes free to use with hosting.
The advantage of SiteStudio is that you can build the site, and then turn it over
to your client to maintain.
The Grampian Association wanted a
website to provide easy sharing of vendor & tradesmen names.
Constructed this with DreamWeaver 4.0 and used the DW template feature to
create the various pages. Didn't let DW do anything with the links though.
The site uses PHP to include the navigation
links, and CSS style sheet for colors. If you happen to visit the site in
the evening, you'll notice PHP swaps the index-page daytime photo for a
photo taken in the evening. PHP is a nice alternative to Visual Studio for
server-side programming.
is the tool I'm currently using to develop a PHP/MySQL application for Adopt-A-Boxer-Rescue. I'm not doing the primary dot-com
site, but rather a password-protected site that AABR uses specifically for adoption
applications. The idea is to place a rescued Boxer in a proper home, and a lengthly
application with references is required. That on-line application gets sent to reviewers
who then match dogs to people. My contribution is to pull the applications into
a MySQL database for simplified review and management of applications. That's where
WeBuilder helps out. I chose it after evaluating a number of competing products
- from free to expensive. It turned out that WeBuilder has the features I want and
a very modest price.
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