Well, I was looking at my galleries last night, and it is becoming quite clear that they are getting seriously out of control. The size of the pages is starting to push a quarter of a meg, which on dialup connections is horrific. So I need to chop them up a bit. The current method was a chop of an older method with everything on one page. What I really want to do is develop some method for dynamically building the gallery pages from a database. That way adding images is really easy. Otherwise I would have to redo ALL of the pages every time I add a drawing, or add new drawing to the end. But I would really like to have my new work at the beginning so that people who are regulars can quickly check the new stuff and move on. The problem with all of this is that I don't know much at all about using PHP to communicate with a MySQL database. Ok, so I only know how to make it say my name, but the point remains the same, I'm going to have to do some serious studying if I want to get it to work. I think what I'm going to do is install the Windows version of Apache on my laptop and PHP on my laptop and work on it during my C class rather than sleeping or drawing kitty people. :)
- posted by Jim The Cactus @ 11/18/2003 08:21:27 AM | Permalink | (0) Comments. Add your own!