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This Isn't the First Post

09/08/2008 11:09 AM (Edited: 09/08/2008 3:31 PM)

Currently sitting here at Autotestcon 2008 in (lovely) Salt Lake City, UT--home of the Mormon elite...or so they say. I've more or less made my first steps toward my own CMS, called site.manage. My first step is a step I've done too many times before: create a blog component. I've done this for customers, using my own WYSIWYG editor which I have acutally grown to love. It let's you do some good basic stuff, such as bolding, italicizing, and underlining, as well as justifying text, redo and undo, bulleted lists (ordered and unordered), and setting up links.

The next step is to create what I'm calling "Galleries". Galleries are special pages which have a gallery of media on them. While this idea isn't new, how I'm applying it is new (or new to me at least). A gallery, in the traditional sense is meant to display media--be it pictures, video, or whatever. What I'm doing is similar, but allows a slight twist. Say you want to create a portfolio website. You have a bunch of sites you want to show potential customers and Internet gawkers. Well, that's where galleries comes in to play. You can create a gallery page, let's call it "portfolio". This portfolio page will display like any other media gallery would (as a series of thumbnail pictures with some description) and when you click on a thumbnail, it takes you to a full-info page, equipped with a wide variety of optional data--including an external link, a description, file type(s), and more. I think the concept is easy, but the implementation will be tedious. We'll see though.