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Perfection : Design Gallery

Finally, my summer web project is complete! (Well, 90% complete ;)) I coded it from scratch, so I’m very proud of it. Please check it out and let me know what you think!

Edit: Are my anti-hotlink images popping up?

Movies I can’t wait to see:

The Fountain
Children of Men
The Prestige
Apocalypto
Spider-Man 3
Casino Royale

In other news, I’m almost finished revamping my old clique, Perfection. It’s going to be my new baby… I can’t wait to reopen it

Just when I thought I’d learned all I need to know about webdesign (not literally), I come across mod_rewrite - which is quite useful! I still have the hardest time comprehending regular expressions, so I’m just using it in its simplest form. Rather than typing profile.php?id=1 every time I want to access a member profile I can use profile/1 instead! Neil Crosby can explain it better than I, so I’ll leave the job to him. Btw - if you are using an .htaccess file to protect against direct linkers, you are using mod_rewrite!

Speaking of direct linkers, I made a new hotlink warning image:

(I stole the ingenious idea from Jem :))

Look what I found! Poor Coco is going to have a whole wardrobe soon…

Here are the sites that I have designed so far:

University of Alabama Philosophy Department
McNair Scholars Program
Bruce Kim
Studio by the Tracks (temporary address)

I’m very happy with the way the Studio design turned out

Congratulations to the winners of last month’s Caption Challenge: Maggie, Amy, Denise, Deanna, and Melissa. Maggie will receive the $5 Grand Prize. Thanks to everyone who participated.

Be sure to check out the latest challenge. It’s the first non-animal photo I’m looking forward to your submissions.

I finally finished my Image Gallery script! Please let me know what you think. You can check out a random image from the gallery on my sidebar

Clearing a float container without source markup.

Looks like I’ll be renovating my skins again. I’m still using the <br class="clear" /> to clear my floating elements.

I recently held a contest at my webring, Oh My Cuteness, for the members to create new image codes. I’m so excited because I received a ton of beautiful submissions! Today, I chose the Grand Prize and Runner-Up:

Grand Prize: Anh -

Runner-Up: Janet -

If you have a cute site (that meets the requirements), then you should definitely join! Don’t worry about dead links in the ring because I check for them every night (with the aid of a script, of course … I’m not THAT much of a computer geek! ;))

I’ve successfully upgraded to WP 2.0.1. Please let me know if you run into any errors.

I wanted to integrate my 404 page into my skins, but I needed it to be a .php file instead of .shtml (which is the default filetype I believe). So here’s how I did it.Open your existing .htaccess file. If you do not have one already, create a new file and save it as .htaccess. Add the following code to the file:

ErrorDocument 404 http://www.bubblessoc.net/404.php

You can change 404.php to anything you want. It can be error.php or mysiterox.php. And of course, you use your URL instead of mine

I’ve also integrated custom 404 pages for my subdomains as well using the same method. This is useful if you have hostees who want their own error pages. Just make an .htaccess file for each of your subdomains. Otherwise, the root .htaccess will take precedence.

If you want to display the name of the page that issued a 404 use:

<?= $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] ?>

Pretty nifty I think.