www.neatstuff.co.nz

How I Created This website

General Description

I have been using this website as a learning process to learn more about PHP.

This site uses dynamically created pages. This means that I really have only one main page that contains the menu etc. The content on the right is switched depending on the users menu choice.

I have defined the menu entries in a separate file which can be easially edited to define menus without modifying the Main page. The main page uses a foreach loop to display the menu options.

I also used PHP for the comments page and links page. The links page loads links stored in a CSV (comma Separated Variable) file that is easially modified and adds approiate HTML tags. I envisiage adding the facility to have private links only displayed if an approiate login in provided at some stage. PHP is used to handle the dynamic page generation.

Since the site is small I have just used separate files for the content instead of a database, this gives less access overhead than a database.

Supported Browsers

I am currently experianceing a few layout issues with IE 5.0, Its old but people still use it :-(.
I use a current version of Mozilla to check the site as I update it and then check it in IE 6.0 ocassionally.
I have tried to ensure that the site is viewable on a text only browser such a Lynx and although the site uses javascript to enhane the visual side it should be perfectly accessable on a browser that dosen't support javascript.