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A new website has been put online. Well, it isn’t really a NEW one, but more like a revision and a complete redo of the old one.

A screenshot of the website

Now now, I know the splash page is kinda an old fashioned way of selecting a language. But you see, it was a client requirement to have a “book cover” page. That’s a way of seeing thing and it’s a point that can be defended. In any cases, should the use access directly the index.php page without choosing any language, the website will do its best to detect and redirect the client to his preferred language (be it French or English).

The framework (“MooTools FTW!” as would say a friend) and administrator section uses (almost) the same code then my previous project, Grimard. I did learned some stuff in CSS laying-out since this website has passed through various layouts. I had to had a few MooTools line in order to set the height of the various columns… and since I had a TextResizer on the page, it was simply the easiest solution… perhaps not the most standard though.

In any case, I’m glad this project came to be finalized. Once the French version was online, the English was completed in less then 8 hours. I’m glad I did the admin page myself: that way I really know how to use it at its best!

This website was also the opportunity to write my first “User guide” for the client. I had to describe, explain and demonstrate how to use the website. It went pretty well and I ended up with a 22 pages Powerpoint file explaining how to edit/add a news, and so on.

One thing I really wish to add to the website, is URL-Rewriting. I’m getting real sick of those “index.php?id=62″… I’ll have to do some research on that. Anyone has a suggestion/solution/tutorial for that?

That pretty much it. Feel free to visit and comment here on the website itself!

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