Site Redesigned
On December 4th 2007, I relaunched www.hunterleebrown.com with a major overhaul and redesign. The site is streamlined and easier to manage. This should spurn new pages and blog posts more often.
Features
- completely XML/XSLT driven. All pages use the same XSLT stylesheet which means there is just one HTML file to edit to change the look and feel.
- all content is in a database (music, photos, blog posts, pages themselves, and even the notes!)
- all data for each page is delivered in XML from a database. PHP does the XSLT tranformation into HTML on the server side.
- entirely dependent on CSS with one stylesheet affecting the look and feel of every page. In fact, I would like to "CSS Zen Garden" my site by making another stylesheet which when selected, can change the whole experience.
- notes are now available on every url of the site. Every page you view has its own set of notes. More or less a "talk back" or comments section for each page. (click the post-it looking icon.)
- music files can be played in the page with a small flash player. Open the music title name, and click the play icon. You can also download the mp3 like before.
- uses MooTools 1.11 JavaScript Framework, with a few CNET extensions and classes of my own.
- uses a content management system interface I created to enter, and edit all content easily.
I have called this little project "Optima" to make it easier to name files, etc. Perhaps the next iteration will be called "Uber Optima".
