This site was produced initially out of a need to list some of the books in our collection at home. It then grew as I increasingly surfed the net for information and got frustrated when there was no single site to go to. Here I'm comparing with IMdB for films.
So I started with my lists. They became a spreadsheet then a full blown database with queries to extract the data. I've previously tried two 'commercial' solutions.
The first one was the well known PHP-Nuke. Unfortunately the software is too well known. After the site was hijacked. I had to rebuild the site.
The next version used PHP Wiki. I liked the idea of a communal input to the content of the site. Unfortunately something went wrong and I seem to keep getting a number of PHP errors and as the software was quite complex I was not sure where to start to put it right.
My next step was a result of me biting the bullet and producing the site myself. I tried to copy the Wiki layout but with use of the 'latest technology' xhtml, fully Accessible and with full Privacy Policy (see below).
Latest update resulted from a clearing up of the accessibility notes, corrections to accesskey links on each page and correcting errors in xhtml and css validity.
The next incarnation again used software produced by someone else PM Wiki, but a) I can follow it better and b) is so easy to back up and restore in case of infiltration.
Again I had problems with someone defacing the website so I went back to using software produced by myself and building it from the ground up. I have made it to look like the previous PmWiki site, but there the resemblence ends. It's not yet 'correct' and some alterations need to be made to the templates and style sheets, but the aim at the moment is to get as much as possible on line.
If you are daft enough to want to know anything about me, then see my profile page.
version one.0.1
Please help to keep this website on-line. There is no commercial backing so any donation will be welcome.
