Hunting The Muse

Having fun with my

Having fun with my little dynamic-image experiment. That's a javascript command that dynamically generates both an image and an image map. It's kind of silly because the goal was to keep folks from having to type in the html for an image map, but they'll still have to type in the html for the href to the script. Oh well - at least it enables me to dynamically adjust the interior regions of the image map.

So far I've figured out how to save calculations in the session, issue and read session cookies from the person's browser, and pass on other data through query string arguments. I have plenty of other idea that should be fun, but it looks like first I have to create a nice, solid piece of enrollment software, which sounds kind of boring. logins, passwords, session and permanent cookies, session ids in the query string versus in cookies, password storing issues like md5, how to handle when people have logged in before but need to again, etc, etc. Sounds tedious to me. I've found a couple of libraries that might give me a head start, but it still sounds tedious.

But after that, things sound fun. What I do need to find, however, is someone with some good photoshop skills that can supply me with graphic ingredients that can be assembled to make a larger, pleasing picture.

Watch this space... Posted by Curt at February 9, 2002 02:45 AM