The Skyfall
A new and clean way to consume your videogame-related news. The focus was on design, usability and high-quality content. The platform was not developed using any preexisting CMS platform, but instead was built from the ground up using PHP and MySQL, for the learning experience of creating an entire blogging platform from start to finish. This helped me get a deeper understanding of how a CMS works, and to improve my programming skills by creating all the functionality needed for a news site to be able to run. This included:
- Programming with dynamic content - As my first real application it served to teach me the fundamentals of the interaction between server and database, as well as how to manage dynamic content within the views.
- Comment system - Challenged with building a comment system that would dynamically assign the same thumbnail to the same anonymous user across posts.
- Ranking algorithm - Investigated on some of the best ways to rank posts based on their interactions using a time-decay model.
- Admin Panel - served to create, edit, and delete posts, as well as to manage comments made on each of the different articles.
- Implemented search - Learned about database text-indexes that would allow searching among different database fields for a more effective search.
Technologies
The technologies used include: PHP and MySQL.
