Assignment 3 - the neverending saga

I spent 5 hours last weekend working on the includes for Assignment 3 and got them to work, finally! Unfortunately a few days later, I realized that I had forgotten that the assignment calls for dynamically generated links, crap!

Today, I spent about 8 hours re-doing naming conventions, reworking file structure, updating Site Plan and Page Description, and barely starting the dynamically generated links.

I'm trying to integrate this site with the User Interface class and it's been challenging to meet both the database and the design requirements. I'd like to use this site as a portfolio piece because a quality-made PHP site would diversify my portfolio (that sounds too financial investmenty) and increase my chances of a better job.

With this in mind, I'm wondering if it makes sense to try and get an Incomplete in the class. I'd like to have more time to finish the project (preferably until end of summer quarter so I can sit in on ITC 280 again), but I don't know how realistic that is for my summer quarter schedule.

A3 - A4

Last week I finally got Bill's example for assignment four working, now I need to customize it to my website. The problem with my Dreamhost account was the DNS namesaver - I didn't assign them to my account. I'm not really sure what this means, but it's working and that's all that really matters at this point.

I'm back to Assignment 3. I spent about 3 hours yesterday and a bit today playing around with Bill's code but I'm still having problems with replacing the tables with divs and figuring out how to use the php width attribute with list items in divs.

Assignment 4

I spent six hours yesterday working on Assignment Four and spent a majority of that time trying to synchronize my Dreamhost account with the muffin table in mySQL to no avail.

I think it has something to do with my domain name because I can't even upload an index page to my Dreamhost account. I looked at the source of my Dreamhost's home page and the frame source is http://dotster.revenuedirect.com/... (plus my domain name and a bunch of other numbers/symbols). On my home page, there is a bunch of links to "sponsored listings" and a list of "related searches" in a different language, which is confusing since I had not yet created an index page.

I looked at both my Dotster and Dreamhost account to see if anything stood out, but found nothing. I also tried to contact Dotster but they were closed. By this time I was done.

Today I tried again, but same results. I'll try calling Dotster tomorrow morning.

Assignment 3 update: I'm still working on the CSS layout and haven't even had time to put in any PHP, I'm getting worried that this is taking so long. I'm trying to make this class website work with the User Interface class.