TravelBlog - my never ending project
October 5, 2005 - 6:56 pm
So I’ve had this great idea of making a travel blog with an interactive map on it for some time now… But I can’t seem to get around to actually doing much work on it. So I’m going to write a list of all the things I still need to do to get it up and going and maybe that will motivate me to do something about it. Maybe.
Here it goes…
- Create a users table in the db.
- Write a proper login page with some validation.
- Write a blog content management area where users can write an article, edit an existing article or delete an article. This could be expanded endlessly really… Don’t really know where to draw the line. Will have to think about this one. Need to decide on a look and feel for this area.
- Fix up the calendar.
- Add the ability to see move to previous months (and then move back to current, obviously) on the calendar.
- Write code so that map is always centered on the last entry’s location, unless they have chosen to read a particular article in which case it should center on that article’s location if there was a location associated with it.
- Write code on the google map icons so that when you click on it it shows something more useful than what it currently does. Maybe displays the title and date of the blog entry at that spot? Maybe shows that entry on the page somewhere? Dunno.
- Create some form of photo table in the db.
- Add a photo upload mechanism to the blog content management area.
- Allow users to associate photos to a blog entry or create galleries?
- Figure out where on the page the photos will be displayed and how users can view them…
- Create a route on the map (a polyline) of all the places that the entries relate to, in order of date, of course.
Eeek, this list is getting far too long for my liking. I can see why I keep procrastinating… But all of this has to be done before I go to South America on the 23rd of December coz I want to use it!
