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I know I’ve written this post hundreds of times before, but time I’ve actually put my plans into action. About 5 minutes ago, I started working on a new version of my website which promises to be cleaner and better suited to my needs.

Given the new amounts of free time I’ve acquired as a result of starting at uni, I actually believe I stand a chance of finishing it this time. The downside is that I do need to design a new skin, and write a shit load of code, but I’m prepared to do all of that.

The whole thing is an exercise in abstraction and good, clean code writing. If you have any suggestions as to what I should include on the site, please let me know.

Watch this space!

I have on the drawing board (my pad of paper at work) a database structure and a couple of doodles for a new version of Jimmed.net.

The main improvements over the old Jimmed.net will be my ability to upload entire photo galleries (perhaps with snazzy AJAXy slideshow features) and videos to my blog without having to piss about using WordPress to insert them into blogs. I’ll keep my ‘About Me’ page (probably), all my blog posts, and my RSS deliciousness. I may also have some kind of reading stats so I can keep track of how popular stuff is easily.

The only thing it lacks is MySQL 5.0 on here. Annoyingly, one.com (my webhost who are pretty shoddy) don’t have any planned timescale for this upgrade, which I need for stored procedures. While I could do it without, inline queries in web apps are just so DIRTY.

I’ve decided it’s high time I actually got around to making a photo album, so I’m just weighing up the options in terms of how to do it. At the moment I’m thinking of using a PHP/MySQL system, maybe with an AJAX front end. The difficulty isn’t actually in creating the system, it’s integrating it neatly with WordPress.

Any suggestions?