VieSurIP

This website is one of the first websites I have created.

History

The firstversion looked very bad: there were animated GIFs and frames that gave the website a very unprofessional look. Sadly I haven’t any screenshot of this version.

The second version was a bit better: I had discovered PHP, that allowed me to replace the frames by includes. But my free host didn’t provide any database, so all pages were saved in text files.

This architecture didn’t ease the modifications I had to do: generation of an RSS feed, creation of a simple administration interface, change of design…

Present state

A few years ago, I changed of free host, and I rebuilt completly the website to use a database and a homemade template system. I changed the design too (but the present design is still far from being XHTML valid).

You can see the website of “Le fil à soi” in its present version.

Conclusions

I am not yet satified by the design of the website, but I am limited by my skills in graphic design.

If you have to build a website for a very small business too, you should use a Content Management System (CMS) (drupal for example). It will allow you to reuse themes and plugins, and to customize the website as your client want very rapidly.

The next step for me would probably be to migrate this website to a CMS, and to convince the owners that they should pay for a real host and domain name.

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As I write this article, this blog isn’t yet available online.

With this blog, I intend to create a place where I will present my projects, present myself, and discuss with the persons interested in my projects.

Translation

This blog is available in English and in French. I first write my posts in French, then I translate them into English. As I don’t know English as good as I know French, and as I am sometimes lazy, the english version is likely to be less complete and contain more errors than the french one. However many of my projects can be interesting for non-French speakers, thus I will always at least write a biref of my posts in English.

I would like to translate this blog into German in the future, but for now it seems too complicated to me. I hope a stay in Germany in the near future will help me with this task .

To come

As this blog is yet new and empty, I will begin to migrate my most important present and past projects here. These projects will be the topics of my next posts.

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