So, I’ve set up a website for Gina so she can get some more clients through online advertising and SEO. It’s at www.hairdesignbygina.com. It’s pretty cool because it gives me a chance to play with a lot of the stuff I’ve learned programmatically over the years. I’ve built the site on a php template that I’ve designed (there’s not much to it, but I’m still pretty happy with myself). I also get to put to use what I’ve learned about CSS and do some really cool design stuff with it. It’s still in it’s infancy, but I’m pretty happy with what I’ve done so far.
I’m also getting to play around with Flash and JavaScript a bit too. I’ve put up a Flash gallery page that converts all the pictures so they look like polaroids thrown onto a table. It’s pretty cool. I’ve just got some dummy pictures in there now, but once we get some pics of her clients, we’ll put them in. It’s got a bug in IE though where it only works the first time you visit. If you refresh the page, or go to another page and come back, it doesn’t work. Kinda pissing me off on that one. I’d like to be able to make some changes to it though and I’m working on some ways to do that (of course I need to learn a bit more about Flash first). I’ve also got a pretty cool flash gallery where I can show before and afters in a book-like format where you can actually flip pages. It’s really cool, but that’s not live yet.
I also just today found a pretty cool mootools FAQ script, so I got to play with that a bit too.
I really like having this site to learn and play with, which will also (hopefully) be something we can turn profitable by driving business to Gina.