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I’ve been doing a lot of work on this site lately. I’m not sure what has gotten me so excited about it, considering that I don’t have a high volume of traffic, but I’ve been wanting to add more features to it to make it more interesting for the people that do visit it.
I recently redeveloped the Photo Gallery from the ground up making it a new, more user-friendly, database-backed, more-fully-featured system. The new gallery mostly caters to my desires as the maintainer. With a web-based administration interface, a complex browse/edit interface that allows me to move photos from one category to another and a new system for adding featured photos (see the top of the front page), this is by far the best addition to my site in a long time.
The features that I added that you’ll be interested in are the ability to search photos, and the new photo captions. So, you don’t have to wonder about why a picture was taken or who is in the picture. There were also some minor, but much-needed interface improvements. If you haven’t already, you should check out the gallery.
My newest addition is the Movie Reviews section. I went back and forth with this for a while. I wasn’t sure whether my traffice volume was sufficient enough for me to put all of the work into creating software for the idea that I had. But, I decided to do it anyway.
I created software which allows me to post reviews of movies as I see them. Fueled mostly by my Netflix account and the fact that I usually see at least one new movie a week, I thought it would be nice to have a way to communicate what I think about these movies with anyone that’s interested. My dad, like myself is really into movies, so I was thinking a lot of him when I created it.
Well, there you have it. I’m still actively working on both of those items, but they’re available for you to browse as they currently are. Let me know what you think!