The Next Project
With the Web Pickups update/upgrade fairly well in hand it is time to move on to the next major project. Symmetrical Backgrounds is one of my sites that attracts more visitors. I intend to redesign the site to be a bit more exciting and more user friendly. I have some basic ideas in mind and have even done some testing on my local server.
There will be a good bit of work to this rebuild as well. I started making pages manually back in the beginning. This made a good display, but I tend to put up fairly large groups of images when I update the site. Manually building pages was a disincentive to adding new content in the form of background images.
I have a photo editor package that came with a gallery generator. I had made an edit to the template pages some time ago to allow for an external style sheet. This allowed me to use the generator to make galleries that fit cosmetically with my various sites. This worked well, so I began thinking of a way to use it for my background image site. I looked over what calls did what and concluded that I could modify the package to generate pages using the background image for the page background. The resulting galleries have much the look and feel of the pages I made manually, but a new gallery goes up in minutes instead of hours.
As part of this update I intend to replace the old pages with my gallery generated pages. As in my other sites, I intend to put most of the boring details from the current home page into sub-pages. The home page will get right to the business of displaying my real content and the site should be much more user friendly. I may leave the old site structure basically in tact so as not to frustrate the search spiders too much and overlay the updated site, we shall see. I will keep you up to date on the progress with posts here, and as soon as the update is ready for prime time I will let you know. I may offer a few previews along the way as well.
Tags: background images, page backgrounds, symmetrical backgrounds, Web Page Backgrounds