Between November 2005 and November 2006 travelled around the world, I set up this site to provide a way for friends and family to keep track of where I was and what I had been up to.
The site has to display photos, details of what I have been upto and videos of the places I go. Since I will be maintaining the site in Internet Cafes with unknown facilities, a web based content Management System is required to ensure that changes to the site content can be made quickly and easily.
The site was created using a combination of Flash, CSS, PHP and MySQL. A PHP based content management system was setup to store details of the photos, videos and diary entries stored. This also handles file uploads and deletions. The main site then loads these at runtime based on the country currently being displayed. A simple Flash menu bar was created to direct the user around the site which is then styled using CSS.
While travelling basic AJAX was added to the site to ensure that people viewing the site through Internet Explorer did not have to activate the menu bar on each page, due to changes in Internet Explorer while I was away. This was achieved through dynamically loading the content through one main page using javascript.
