Redesign - It's More Than Meets the Eye

Posted: Monday, December 03, 2007 8:19:40 PM | 3284 Views




I've been pondering why it's been so hard to get to work on the redesign of Theme Park Critic lately. When I first wrote TPC, it was because I'd been asked to learn ASP in a matter of a month for a project at work, so at night I'd work on the site to learn ASP.

Looking back, the site has held up pretty well considering it's going on it's seventh birthday, but what I find more daunting is the sheer amount of technology and development techniques that have come about since it's release.

Looking over my TODO list, not only are all the functions of the site that need to be moved forward, but I want to take advantage of RSS, CSS/XHTML, Ajax/XMLHttp, plus all the other fun stuff out there and of course moving too the latest .NET framework.
Using these technologies of course makes any future updates to the site far far easier, in fact a complete layout is all the sudden the matter of updating a simple style sheet. It's interesting though, when the site was built it was a matter of getting the data to pull and update a database reliably, now there's so much more to making things they way they should be.

In the end I've been extremely interested in writing an multiplayer web game, and also in updating the site. Both offer a opportunity to really apply all the technologies I've learned over the years, it's just a matter of deciding which path to take.


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