First i'd like to say thanks for sticking with the site, its progressing a little faster now . I've taken one of Luz's tutorials, Digital Painting Walkthrough he submitted in the user tutorial forum. I've converted it to text to make it easier to read and inserted it into the tutorial index. You can find it on the latest tutorials section on the homepage or in the Tutorial Index.

With that said, I had to go back over some of my older code to get the tutorial into the database. When i transfered things to the new version, i deleted my old admin interface on accident which left no way of updating the index without writing code. So, Upon doing so, I realized the way I was building this site was SLOW, and counter intuitive. Which leads me to my next point.

I am going to start to rebuild this version using a php framework i've come to love, Code Igniter. It should speed up my development efforts as well as allow me to better structure the site.

At first, i'm just going to converting everything over to the code-igniter framework. This means looks probably won't change that much. After that is complete, I will be able to start building new sections of the site (or complete ones that were mean to be finished upon v3 launch).


One section that is going to change is the showcase and upload. Instead of a gallery type system, it will be an image upload system, like imageshack, that allows for anyone to upload images. Creating a user account on the site will allow you to keep track of your uploads and also recieve comments on those images.

Well, that is all. I'll keep you posted on progress. I hope to have this changeover version out the door in the next two weeks, which at that point i'm taking on another paid project.

-Pat

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Sounds cool, pretty neat being able to host my images here too

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