Name
officially
All the Questions
Site Location
live view
Overview
in a nutshell
Developed from an idea created by my brother, Chris Pettazzoni, All the Questions is a venture into the world of creating a more useful site for finding the answer to any question.
Skills
how I did it
xhtml, css, xml, php, mySQL, graphics
Software
what I used to do it
Adobe Dreamweaver CS3, Adobe Fireworks CS3, phpMyAdmin
Design
aesthetic point of view
This design was heavily inspired by my new Mac laptop, and the styles in OS X, initially. After some basic changes, though, it started taking a new form of its own. Essentially it is a very simple design. The logo is just text, and all the other areas are rectangles or more text, following a very simple black, orange, blue color scheme. The contrast between the different gradients used for the backgrounds of questions is important to distinguish those that have final answers and those that are still open.
Development
how it works
JACKED Manager has grown and now also provides a library of functions for many kinds of functionality, such as the new Search interface. JACKED Search provides a powerful searching algorithm that can be easily used to search through many data sources (MySQL database, array, String, file input, etc), complete with dynamic ranking and other results tools. This search was built out of necessity for All the Questions. In order for it to be sucessful, this site needed a powerful search that would be sure to provide exactly what the user is looking for. JACKED now also has a new approach to the actual content rendering system, thanks to development of a Content Filter for this site, which would hide or simply censor inappropriate content when activated, to make the site also useful for children. A dynamic content filter allows the underlying code to run efficiently regardless of the filter status, with full content. It is only once the rendering process is started that the filter will take control.
Comments
my opinion
All the Questions was an experiment in user-generated content. An experiment that both was never really completed (see also, shiny beta sticker) and that was never really marketed as well as it could be. In the end we've now moved on to bigger and better things, but the advancements that this site provided to the JACKED Manager will last for a very long time.