Stephen's Projects

A lot of projects I complete just get abandoned once I'm done, so I wanted a place to display, organize, and make them available for others. This is the site you are on right now.

I originally had it working in PHP from scratch but redid it using the CodeIgniter framework to try something new. This was a rare example of when I've put effort into the separation of HTML and CSS to the extent that different CSS could truly create a different style without changing the HTML. This included both a dropdown box at the top right to manually change the theme, or to have it automatically change based on the tag/category of projects being viewed.

• There was a "StructureOnly" css theme (screenshot below) that served as a starting place for building other themes.
• The original default for the site was a purple and gray theme was directly inspired by the appearance of PHP.net at the time (see PHP.net from 2010 or screenshots below for comparison).
• A Kofax theme was based on the blue, orange, green mix of the Kofax Support website at the time (see Kofax Support from 2010 or screenshots below).
• Later I changed the default to a more simple blue theme.

Though I still like the concept, and the history held here, I had not been using this site for many years already. Now modern versions of PHP don't work with the CodeIgniter framework version I used to build it, and I really don't want to reacquaint myself with both PHP and CodeIgniter to spend time fixing it. Instead, I have disabled the dynamic timeline part of the site and saved a static HTML version (using HTTrack) that can persist without PHP or a database, and no future work needed to preserve the history.

Newer projects are GitHub, although I still like the idea a project site for a wider range of things than might end up on GitHub: non-code projects, projects that won't be open source for one reason or another, etc.