Come play in my sandbox!

[dragonimp]

(Edit: Yeah, um, I just realized I've told practically no one about this site yet. It's an FMA listing for fanworks - fics, art, and AMVs - that I put together to practice PHP. It's work related, really. The learning PHP part, that is. The site, not so much.)

So, I meant to spend the day catching up and stuff? Yeah, spent all day playing with PHP instead ^^;. But! The site is up and live! Go create user ids! Make new items! Add comments! Play in my database! The layout and design is really basic right now, but all the PHP and mySQL should be working. I haven't tested it on anything but my own computer so I really want to know if it works on PCs and in IE, etc. Plus, I want it populated. I've gone though my own links, but I'm really bad about saving things.

You should be able to edit any comments you make. Any other edits I have to go into the back-end or log in with my "admin" account. But let me know if there's anything you think needs fixing.

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[lost-variable.livejournal.com]

The link for the fan art from Twitterwings is broken.

These are my thoughts while looking at it:
I like how you have it so that the user can add stuff. That's pretty nice, most fansites don't have that available. It's easy to use. I wasn't sure how secure the password was, but I did make an account. The site looks very functional and straightforward. I have an aversion to 'mailto' links, so I didn't like that, but a lot of people use them so yeah that's probably just a preference thing for me.

The color scheme is good and is easy on the eyes, a plus for that. No graphics makes it 'less pretty' but more functional and quicker to load, which is really nice. It's sort of a pro/con thing. The font at the top is difficult to read.

One thing I'm wondering about is on the side where let's say you're on the fiction tab and it opens up and shows all the stories that have been entered. Right now it's fine; but, later, when it's all populated or whatnot, it's going to be really long and that could be a potential problem. Do you have something set up for a limit on that where a 'next' type of link will show up?

Anyway, those are my thoughts, or what few I can gather up at 3am. You have some good stuff going on there. Good luck with it!

[dragonimp.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the catch on the link - it looks like I entered both URLs in the same field ^^; That's what I get for doing it after bedtime.

I see what you mean about the menu on the side. I was actually envisioning the top layer to be tabs so they'd always be across the top, but couldn't figure out the CSS. I may also have to give up and let that div scroll. Something to work on.

The password does get encrypted before it goes to the database. Probably not top-level security, but it doesn't go in raw.

I need to look up how to make a web form send to my email.