I have officially completed work on this site for now. We have numerous photo albums up (I scanned in about 30 new pics and downloaded some from our camera), a lot of the old ‘static’ content has been migrated across, and the appearance of the site has been unified.
I am particularly proud of the static page. It is completely dynamically generated using happy fresh PHP 5. None of this sissy PHP 4 garbage, only the best for my little blotch of egotism. Anyhow, I throw a stack of files at a great big little directory and the thing generates the index, detects file types, and displays things appropriately.
There is also a rather interesting glitch in the CSS on the site that I am taking advantage of. Well, it’s not really a glitch so much as an unexpected bonus.
I had written my footer file to simply display a horizontal bar and a link to my email address. Things show up after all content on the site and it is good. But… if I remove the final closing </div> tag, the footer magically renders inside of my content panel and looks really pretty cool (in both IE and Firefox).
Oh yeah, that’s another feature of which I am proud. The site doesn’t really look all that differently when viewed in IE. Very nice bonus there.