Inside The Mind Of Timothy Allard

AmericanEskimoZone.com Project Update

Posted on the October 4th, 2008 under American Eskimo Zone, My Websites by Timothy Allard

Well it has been some time since I have made an update on some of my web projects, so what a better time than now. My current main web content project is AmericanEskimoZone. filled with eskie resources, tips, photos and more. I have gotten quite a few original articles written so far and have just completed two scripted tools.

The first tool is an American Eskimo Fact Generator. It was coded in PHP and roughly took about 2 hours dev time and 2 hours design time so I am quite happy with it. What it does is, it randomly presents the viewer with 1 fact, the average person may not know about the American Eskimo breed. Once the dog bone is clicked, it generates another random fact. Its kind of cool and adds a little dynamic feature for the user to play with.

The second tool is a Pet Name Generator. sort of following the lines of the random fact generator, this one generates a random dog name for pet owners having troble finding the perfect name for their pet. The list in its later version will be sortable or “filtered” to target a certain gender, or type of name.

Outside of the tools, my next focus is the Dog Shelters Across America section. Each section will include a Google Map of dog shelters for a state chosen from a dropdown menu. This will take some time, but will be an intrigal part of the website. On each state, there will be official static links to animal shelters, organizations and more.

Im hoping to get 20 more articles written by the end of October, which is definitely possible, along with interlinking and a unified header as the older template I was woring on has some missing elements.

One last newest addition, is the flash banner I have promoting the online store, which is not currently open yet. I wrote a script that will randomy display a banner unit and I can control frequency and link destination quite easily. PHP is so fun.

Thats about it for now, Im happy with the progress but wish I could get much more done much quicker. I will be updating my other web projects throughout October, Ill keep you posted. Please let me know your thoughts, Im always welcome to feedback and suggestions.