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The savrola website has been built on a fairly standard Linux Apache MySQL and PHP (LAMP) platform. Other than the highly professional hosting service provided by Andrew at Nethosted, everything else is very much a 'labour of love' - or 'midnight hack', depending on your poetic standpoint.
The focus of the website is obviously the images but the underlying driver is the database which started life as a simple Access application, written and maintained by Dave to track and catalogue his collection. This is still the master database but we have written a number of routines to export the required entities into the MySQL database used by the website.
Browser mark-up is standard XHTML/CSS, with an ever increasing amount of Javascript. I have long resisted the pressure to include client side scripting, but the reality is that the presentational benefits increasingly outweigh the disadvantages. I am aware that there may be users out there still accessing the site with browsers that do not support Javascript and I have tried to make the degredation as graceful as possible. If serious inconvenience is being caused please let me know.
The latest round of cosmetic improvements were largely brought about through the inspiration of the writings of Dan Cederholm and Andy Budd et al, which I would like to fully acknowledge and express my appreciation for. Indeed anyone who has read the former's "Bulletproof Website Design" will already be familiar with the overall style of the site.
Enhancements for future versions will hopefully include:
As with every aspect of the site we welcome any feedback, comments or suggestions on how you feel the site could be improved.
