{"id":440,"date":"2012-04-20T15:48:28","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T21:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/?p=440"},"modified":"2018-03-03T12:23:39","modified_gmt":"2018-03-03T20:23:39","slug":"friday-afternoon-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/friday-afternoon-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Afternoon Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night, I did the final tweaks to a new web site I built for my friend Larry Gaian, the master BBQ\u2019r. You can see his delicious efforts at TheBBQGrail web site (which I also do the programming for) at http:\/\/www.thebbqgrail.com<\/a> . It\u2019s a great site for all things BBQ.<\/p>\n

The new site is a place to find all things BBQ, from rubs and sauces to blogs and message forums. It\u2019s called \u201cBBQ Grails List\u201d, and can be found at http:\/\/www.grailslist.com<\/a> . <\/p>\n

I kind of like the design of the place. The letters in the logo are built to evoke the burning coals of a BBQ. The boxes for each category are built with a \u201cmasonry\u201d add-in I found. I like how the boxes flow together like a rock fireplace automatically. If you refresh the page, the category boxes are displayed in a different order each time, but the masonry effect keeps them together.<\/p>\n

The site has some advertising, using scripts from Amazon and Google Adsense. The ad content is supposed to be mostly BBQ-related items. So the site is \u2018live\u2019 and you will find some good items in most of the categories, along with links to the item\u2019s web sites.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s been a bit of tweaking to some of the other sites, including putting some historical family pictures on the family web site. I found a great PHP-based program that automatically displays pictures in a folder. The style of the gallery pages is somewhat customizable, but the code is nice because it is all one file, so easy to implement in a web site. If you are interested, you will find the web site for that code here Single File PHP Gallery 4.1.1<\/a> . <\/p>\n

I\u2019ve also been working on the new version of CellarWeb Ads<\/a> , which is a program I built to easily display ads on a web site. It\u2019s been around for over a year, and I have had almost-daily downloads of the code, but nobody has bothered to use the \u201cDonate\u201d button. That\u2019s OK, I suppose, since I learned a lot about PHP programming as I wrote it.<\/p>\n

In fact, most of my web sites are learning experiences. There is very minimal revenue received as a result of my efforts, but they are interesting to create.<\/p>\n

As for the weekend, the weather is starting to get nice here in the high desert of Utah. So some lawnmowing, and perhaps a bit of vegetable planting in my small garden. The grandkids like to pick peas, so those are on the list. And the strawberry plants are starting to blossom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last night, I did the final tweaks to a new web site I built for my friend Larry Gaian, the master BBQ\u2019r. You can see his delicious efforts at TheBBQGrail web site (which I also do the programming for) at http:\/\/www.thebbqgrail.com<\/a> . It\u2019s a great site for all things BBQ.<\/p>\n

The new site is a place to find all things BBQ, from rubs and sauces to blogs and message forums. It\u2019s called \u201cBBQ Grails List\u201d,<\/p>\n

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