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Posted on 2003-11-28 08:20:14 - #Hits : 49

Today, I finished the main web engine module with totally rewritten engine and interface. The extended function module will be completed later.

The main module is hold 5 sections, they are:

• News or log;
• Articles;
• File Downloads;
• Photo Gallery and
• Guestbook

Beside 5 sections above, there are additional modules such as Home, special Books section, About and Version History.

Basically, I have created some extended functions module such as Hits counter, Sorted Articles option, Rating and Comment feature, thumbnailed photo gallery, etc. But I haven't addressed important features such as Search, Links module and Article's Page Navigation. They will be completed later.

Still not different with my previous web engine version, although I used different scripting language, from ASP to PHP, I still do the hand-coded programming and formatting to eliminate inefficiency tag usually produced by such as Site Builder, WYSIWYG HTML or whatever.. The aim is still the same: build clean, simple, cool and rock site!

New interface is the first thing can be seen. I changed the base color from dark to light. I also keep the site clean from any unused images and animations, I moved the "Developed with NOTEPAD", "Run On Windows 2000 Server" and "Best Viewed With" images to other pages but I added new logo on the top of page. Still NO JAVA policy, FLASH animation and FRAMES except they are really very crucial and influent the overall. I only used small size javascript, it really very light.

I also remove the Top-5 boxes. This feature is very useful shortcut, but believe me, it consumes so many resources and slow down the page load. I simplify the main menu, categorized to relevant contents but keep it simple and easy to navigate.

I reduced some nested or complex tables to speed up page rendering on client side, remove weak and inefficient HTML tags such as <font> (this is really bad), unclosed <p>, data definition tags such as DL, DT and DD, and accomodate them to style sheet because most of modern browsers support Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) version 2.

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However, this is not the one-stop inovation, I still collect informations to improve both the contents, interfaces and engine. I really know that this engine is not really fast as I expected and I know how to make it faster. But as a starting point, I keep it as is right now. I have lot of works to be done, if I make it (almost) perfectly, it will exhaust me indeed. So I will tune it up later.

Last but not least, I can not guarantee all browsers can render my web pages as I expected, especially for the interface. For best result, I recommend you to use the browser as specified in my footer web page.

See you next time

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