UPDATE: A new version of InvisionYourLife.com went live around Christmas 2008
I got my PHP/MySQL book – Beginning PHP 5 and MySQL: From Novice to Professional by W. Jason Gilmore – in the mail at the weekend and I’m well into the nitty-gritty of development. As I’ve mentioned before, I’m using the TinyButStrong template engine, and now I’m also using the ezSQL class just to cut down on the lines of code to the absolute extreme.
I was glad to see that I could use subtemplates with TinyButSTrong, and this is the technique I’ve been using to create re-occurring page elements (headers, footers, and – in the .NET lingo – user controls.)
It’s great fun so far, though on the graphics side I’m wishing I had learnt CSS properly years ago instead of fiddling and hacking until things work. Of course, that’s exactly what I’ll do again this time…
I’m surprised at how soon I’m coming up with differences in graphical rendering by Firefox and Internet Explorer, given that the design is based on a cross-browser template and I haven’t made many changes to it so far.