Still Doing Site Changes & Research

This all starting to get a bit exciting the more I work on things and research ideas the more future projects come to mind. I am constantly bookmarking sites so I can get back to them later.
I of course make sure I bookmark using Firefox so that all I have to do is go under bookmarks and “manage bokkmarks” and search for the key words in bookmark manager because there is no way I would remember all of these sites or want to sit down and waste valuable time organizing them
I’m researching one item whether it’s a plugin to Movabletype or a rpm or library needed on my Linux Fedora 4 or something else I come across another association with that item I would love to try out at a later date!
Sometimes I get a little off track from my issue that I’m pursuing but it also helps me want to hurry up this aspect and continue moving to the next step on this site development.
Even mistakes have led me to some really nice discoveries. A simple typo in a browser while I was sneezing brought me to the fantastic application Gallery2 (http://gallery.menalto.com/ ). I now have that application up and running and publishing a on the web (http://www.dhoytt.com/gallery2/ )just not linking to it yet from my other site pages. I am still getting familiar with all of the nice features Gallery2 gives you. It’s really nice so far but investigating which Photo software I want displaying photos on my site.
I like the album features of both PhotoGallery and Gallery2 but I really wanted the slide show capability that Gallery2 provides. Gallery2 has a plugin for Movabletype as well but PhotoGallery seems to totally integrate with the Movabletype blog. I guess it depends on what features are important to you and how you want to control and display your photos. I’m still getting familiar with both and may have them both up side by side while I play and see how they interact locally and remotely plus see which ones gives the whistles and bells I need or want.
I was also talking about a couple of weeks ago to some co-workers saying I didn’t want to place the shopping cart software on my server. Well I have changed my mind! While doing research on other issues I have found various Shopping Cart software’s that can run nicely on my Linux server and integrate with MySQL or other databases just fine! The software then takes the user to a banking website like PayPal where they complete the financial portion of the transaction totally off my server protecting the purchaser and myself.
Stay tuned I’m doing a lot of work, research and learning behind the scenes and will be alternately tackling and changing portions of the site.