A New ericrosnick.com

I have been recently flirting with the idea of a newly designed ericrosnick.com, i currently have somewhat of a layout in the works, but in my eyes it is far from finished. I feel that this new design will help to better showcase my abilities with all types of web development, from HTML to server side scripting in PHP. To view what I currently have in the works you can go here.

Where do we go from here?

Well the Pens Nation CMS is finally complete minus a few tweaks here and there that I may make along the way somewhere to add new sections to the site and members area, but as of now it is complete. Now that it is done I have decided that I won't be packaging it up and releasing it to the public for the simple fact that I don't want to write an installer or any documentation on how it all works, and I'm not too sure what the demand is for a sports related CMS.

Next up on the Pens Nation agenda will be to optimize the site on my end and limit the number of actual php pages on the site for easier admin usage, and then maybe edit the htaccess file to create clean url's. There are not any plans in the near future for any huge additions to the site, maybe just clean up the Admin area so if need be someone else can log in and edit things when I may be unable to.

The Nation Takes Flight

My little side project has turned into more of a daily thing now that the hockey season is underway. The site is built using a CMS that was built almost entirely by me the only thing that I used outside help on was the registration/login script because the one I had written originally was not complex enough for what I required and I did not have the time to go back and rewrite it to fit my needs. So I went on the hunt for a little help and I found something that I could implent into my exisiting script to achieve the result I was looking for.

Each page on PensNation is built dynamically from a database, and most if not all are what you call search engine friendly, with different titles and descriptions that are dynamic to the content of the page. The previous load time issue has been taken care of since the flash header was phased out and the database was cleaned up from the mess that was created during the build. There has also been numerous new features added throughout the site. Now the only thing to finish on the site is the members, the area is currently 75% done at the moment, I hope to have this completed by no later than Thanksgiving. But in all I think the site itself is coming together rather nicely.

Site Back

The site is finally back up and running with what to seems to be no glitches in the database. So now I finally get to test out my new pensnation layout and some of the scripts i wrote for it. So far I have a RSS script that reads feeds into the database so they can be pulled and sorted into one feed and I have the ability to remove any duplicate feeds that may come up. There is also a blogging engine in the works to allow me and other to make posts on the page as well as allow comments from other users. Anyways I have some work to get done being that I missed 3 days of server time, but in the mean time you can check out what is done so far. http://www.pensnation.com

Note:  None of the PHP scripts have been implemented into the site yet they are still in what I am going to call the pre-production process.