New Main Website design
Alight, so over the past few weeks, I have been monitoring the bandwidth usage for both blog.mphwebsystems.com and the main site, mphwebsystems.com and noticed one very interesting thing. There have been approximately 1,100 hits on the main site, and there have been 3,000 hits on the blog. Now, the really interesting part is the bandwidth used by both. The main site, with 1,100 hits, used 13 MB. The blog, with 3,000 hits, used 10 MB. The theme I have used for the main site is extremely heavy, with 1600 lines of CSS, and about 20 images. The theme used for the blog is very very light and simple, thus the lower bandwidth usage. Now what this shows, is that it really makes a big difference how your website is designed.
Because of this difference, I went ahead and decided to redesign the main site. The new design has 3 images, and 251 lines of CSS, much lighter and simpler. I think the hardest part of web development is finding the balance between size and “shinyness”.
CMS Database Design
Hi all, it has been a while since I posted something new. I have been on a trip fixing up a house, but hey! I have been getting lots of programming in during my free time.
I think I have pretty much finalized the database design for the Competition Management System that is under development. Here is an image:
cms_db.jpg
Everything grouped under Registered Competition Tables basically all depends on a single competition entry into the Competitions table. Notice the separate accounts table, every type of account, except for admins, is linked from that table to either a Competition entry, a school entry or a team entry via the links table. This also allows for multiple links from a single account.
CMS Developement has begun!
I have started work on CMS (Competition Management System). Its going to be a cool system! I am implementing Object Orientation into the PHP, like say you call a method and send that method a SQL script, it executes that script, and hands you back an object. It just puts another abstraction layer of the database communication.
If you would like to preview this system, while it is being developed, add a comment below, and I will get back with you! 