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Well, did it again, still working on the RSS Feed widget thing which you can now see on the right. Its still very early on, but it does do things! Basically my long term aim for it to tell you if theres new RSS items and also allow it to be configurable per user, with a set of default ones for users who arent logged in. I dont plan for it to update automatically, but it does have a refresh button.
As I say, its REALLY early on, much like the majority of this site its a little rough at the moment, but its been a good test bed for some more JQuery fun. As you may have noticed from the menu system across the site I'm kinda liking the slidey menu thing at the moment and thats been once more used in the RSS Feed display. Basically if you click on the title of the RSS Feed (with the zoom icon) it'll bring up a full list from the RSS feed, the top one item from the feed is displayed immediatly below. Its all done via JQuery AJAX, however instead of pulling the feed direct off the sites, I used an ASP.NET page local to this server to go get them, then the JQuery to process that, means I wont have any Javascript permissions issues...
Opps, it would appear to be 1am, and on a school night no less. I may have got slightly carried away with the JQuery RSS feed reader I'm writing for the front page. I'm taking a break from the photo gallery to work on something else. I reached the stage where I have to write the interface for loading photos into the database, which is less than fun, but needs doing. I need to work out how to import photos from a folder into the DB with minimal effort. I am thinking of also including some kind of location based system accross the site soonish as well.
The site is now technically live, but really all that means is that it can be accessed from the web, I'll be surprised if it gets any hits currently. I plan on going through and working out the SEO in a week or so, once I've completed the Gallery and the RSS thing. If you do stumble upon here feel free to say hi.