Esotropiart

I am continuing to work on Jonah Ministries' web site. In fact, I will be going there this week to talk to the camp director about the future full site redesign. So far, I have made minimal changes and updates. After this week I will know how extensive my future plans will be, and I will be able to set out to finish the task well. I have some ideas that I think will improve the appearance, navigation and attraction to the site. I am anxious to see what other ideas might be presented in this meeting.

Last weekend I worked on adapting my custom-built gallery scripts to another site. I have developed a simple interface and functionality for EsoShow and EsoGallery in PHP, with MySQL database connectivity, of course. Over the years (not like it has been more than 2), I have changed my gallery scripts considerably (read through EsoLog for examples), but have recently gone for a simple approach. No flashy moving slideshows with transitions, just simple straightforward navigation. I was inspired by a recent request to get some new camp photos up on the Jonah site, and decided to adapt my scripts for their situation. It took me a couple days. It was fun, and went surprisingly smooth with just a few hiccups. Sure, I could write perfectly extensible and adaptable code that could be used by anyone, but my scripts are fairly simple. I had to rewrite large sections to get it to work how I wanted. I am pleased with the results. I haven't heard a reaction from Jonah (I kinda did it randomly) and hope they like it. It is simple and lean, and I see it as an improvement. Maybe this will be the shortest lived (and only) hostile EsoGallery takeover in history. We'll see how long this link connects you to the new layout for the page. I simply put the updated photo album format inside the flow of the current site, so it doesn't stand out like a sore thumb. I haven't touched the colors, interface or navigation elsewhere and am saving drastic changes for after my discussion with friends at Jonah.