If you look in the Preview Pages section of the Main Page, you’ll see an example of what a filtered page will look like. You’ll be able to set this by creating a login for the site, or by going to a filter page, which will then carry the filtering through the rest of the site on the current visit.
The second solution isn’t perfect, but it will give people the option of filtering out images without creating a login to the site. I know many don’t want to sign up for anything, regardless of privacy gurantees.
I’m absolutely going to go PHP for the whole website to allow the filtering options, and to create easy ways for me to update pages. By setting up include files, I can eliminate a lot of redundant coding. I can also dynamically update things like latest releases, latest news ( already working ), etc. I’ll also be able to create an admin interface that will let me add new stuff to things like character pages, the pages listing my stories, etc.
I’m just fiddling around for now, because I need to dig up all my old PHP notes, documentation, and files off the old computer.
The current preview templates have a lot of “dummy” links and text on them. They’re just something to fill up the layout while I decide how to organize the actual navigation and appearance of the site.
You know, this was a chore and a de-motivator for a while, but it’s become just the opposite now. I’m enjoying the coding again, and that’s helping beat down a little bout of depression that hit me — triggered by knowing I was going to miss the deadline for the Halloween Contest at Lit on Barren Harvest, I think.
Now, to give writing on said story some time 🙂
