A Holiday Project

After quite a lot of boredom lately, I have found myself doing a good bit of web design. So I started to wonder who could use a web page. That’s when Steph told me that our wedding photographer was using a MySpace profile for her photography business.

I began designing a web site for her in my free time, and she bought a domain name for it. The site uses Javascript for the effects, but is completely usable (and appealing) without it. I chose Javascript because of its wider support, as opposed to Adobe Flash. MooTools offers a great framework that allows for a substantial amount of effects.

The site back-end is written in PHP and is completely custom, with the exception of Gallery2. Gallery2 already has so many features and capabilities, it would have been stupid for me to reinvent the wheel. Her portfolio and the slideshow at the top of the page are both rendered through PHP scripts that call upon Gallery’s API. This allows her a simple method of managing both the slideshow and her portfolio.

I’m sure there are still some glitches that will have to be handled, but as for now it’s done.

Here is the link.