Hello and welcome to skallen.net.
This site is mostly for my own benefit,
but there's a few fun things around as well. What's interesting for visitors includes:
Front page:
updates about new stuff
Games:
a few flash games
Opinion:
A collection of media I've consumed, with short notes and ratings.
Wallpapapers:
A few wallpapers in the gallery, I add one or two each year
Not very much, but its something. But as I mentioned, the site is mostly for my own benefit. I use the opinion pages
to keep track of what media I've consumed and what I thought, and since I'm a heavy rewatch/rereader, it's a good resource for
me as well. I also use the gallery to upload and share images with other people. But mostly I use the site to try out web stuff and
play around with website design. This as been great for me, as I've been able to use the skills I aquired from this many times at work.
The site itself is built on php/MySQL and regular html/css. Also been experimenting with javascript and some AJAX. Been using my
own "framework" and almost everything is coded by me. I do use some external libraries:
The first real version skallen.net, but barely. Had virtually no content except a
few posts and images. Before this one I only had a logo and a shoutbox.
New Features:
Blog posts (called "news", didn't know about blogs back then). Shoutbox. Polling. HTML image gallery. Link submit/vote
system where users could submit and vote on different links, but never got it to work properly.
Version:
2.0
Date of release:
2005-06-29
Comments:
A much better attempt than version 1. A completely new content system that still being used now, with some modifications.
Seeing it now, it's a very narrow page, but resolution on the screen wasn't as wide as it is now. Flash animated logo (>_<). Name comes from web 2.0 which was
very hot at the time.
New Features:
Autogenerated gallery. Comments. Two flash games. Simple layout system. Web administration. RSS.
Version:
3
Date of release:
2007-09-17
Comments:
A wider site, heavily inspired by last.fm's look at the time. The design lasted a long time, but many features were
built after release. Started with three different themes the user can switch between, now up to eight themes.
New Features:
Gallery with auto-generated thumbnails and lightbox viewer. Opinion system for rating media. Highscore for the games.
AJAX on various functions. Rotating text banners.
Version:
4.0
Date of release:
2014-10-18
Comments:
Again a wider site, following the increased resolution now available. This time inspired somewhat by windows 8, with a
more flat look. More lean, with removal of a lot of unused stuff. Not much new features yet.
New Features:
Opinions added on the frontpage. Fixed menu when scrolling. This timeline! :)
