Long Delayed Update

Well, my subject matter needs to be altered a bit. For the last two weeks, I've been struggling with PHP and a lack of Dreamweaver at home (MX never worked, and my 30 day trial period with 8.0 is up). What I set out to do was a bit too ambitious. A part of Garrett's book was that you need to be realistic and flexible with your strategy and goals, and luckily, my goals are flexible enough so that I can change my strategy slightly without changing the underlying structures much.

What I am able to do is implement a pre-written open source PHP gallery called Gallery 2.0. And that's the nature of my instruction on my instructional site: I'll instruct someone to implement Gallery 2.0 and how to customize its look and feel. It's a dynamic photo gallery and it comes with pre-set templates (the default look and feel is minimal). Here are the challenges (and they match up with what I originally set out to do). 1) Find an appropriate web server 2) Install Gallery 2.0 3) Customize the look of Gallery 2.0. The program is several megabytes: customizing it requires being able to change style sheets and templates (not Dreamweaver templates). Actually, digging around subdirectories and code is in order to customize Gallery 2.0.

The last two weeks, I've been working with Gallery 2.0 and applying it to what I've learned here in IT486. What's left is this: McGurk's Photo Gallery. Actually, one should probably go to the McGurk's website to see how it works within the greater website. I've only accomplished the color palette conformity aspect: it looks like it's a part of the website, but in terms of uniformity, it comes a bit short. The banner should be centered, the links need to be on the top row, and there needs to be some white space around the edges. By figuring this out, my instructional website will teach someone to go through this whole process with ease!!