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Santoro:
http://www.santoro.com/

It's built using Wordpress and a heavily modified theme.  I am just learning them, but I am already impressed by the power of PHP/MySQL.    

If you have hosting and want an easy website, definitely look at Wordpress.  Once it's set up, it is so much easier to maintain than a regular html site using Frontpage or whatever.

Also, obviously, http://www.acadereplay.com.  That was creaded with OScommerce.  That was a little harder.

shmokes:
I can't bring myself to learn anything about web design or anything from the Macromedia or Adobe suites (I know they're the same company now) because my graphic designer wife is already so good at them.  I'd really like to know Photoshop, Illustrator and Flash, but it's extraordinarily difficult to sit down and work with them when I can always just say, "Hey . . . I need a flier for such and such, can you put something together for me?"  And, of course, it'll end up a thousand times better than what I would have made even if I knew the programs inside and out cos she's a much better designer than me.

Here's her most recent website she made for my painter/musician brother.  It's not finished yet, e.g., it doesn't have an embedded mp3 player yet, but it's mostly complete.

www.garedmoses.com

shmokes:
Dunno if this thread was meant to house only web-based creations, but I do have a recent non-web creation I'm really proud of.  I performed open-heart surgery on a laptop to get at all the guts and completely de-cased the LCD screen.  Then I stripped out all the unnecessary components from the laptop, like battery, CD-drive, etc. to get rid of as much bulk and weight as possible (though I added a PCMCIA WiFi card).  Then I pulled off an exhaust fan and remounted it so it would act as an intake in a different position.

I had a custom frame made and stuffed the whole lot into the frame.  It's running a slide show screen saver called Slickr that pulls pictures automatically from a Flickr account. 

It's a Christmas present for my in-laws.  What this allows us to do is give them a digital picture frame that my wife and I get to remotely control what shows on it.  So any time we want we can simply upload new pictures of their new grandbaby.  It's going to be loads of fun for us and them.  They will, without warning or effort on their part, regularly have new pictures of our little girl on display.  It'll be cool for them to start checking what's showing on the picture frame all the time.  Maybe as an april fools joke we'll have to replace the baby pictures on the Flickr account with porn   >:D

I totally recommend this, especially if you have an old laptop.  It's such an amazing gift, but only cost us $25 for the frame (www.americanframe.com is THE place to go for all your framing needs.  Incredibly inexpensive custom metal or wood custom frames).  The software is free.  I already had the WiFi card laying around, but those things can be had for a song these days, if the laptop doesn't already have one built-in.

I put PC Anywhere on it so that I can control it without a keyboard and mouse, but I'm really thinking I'd probably better open it back up and put a wireless keyboard/mouse receiver in there.  Does anyone know of a very inexpensive wireless keyboard/mouse combo with a very small receiver?  I'm thinking something along the lines of the receiver being about the size of a USB key, kind of like the ones that ship with mice made for laptops (but I need it to talk to a mouse and keyboard).  Preferably this would be one without anything like a "connect" button on it, because once this frame is closed up it's A LOT of work to open up and then get closed again.

Santoro:
That's pretty slick.   8)

shardian:
Shmokes, that is an awesome project. I've seen people make them before, but that is probably the best one I have seen to date. :applaud: :applaud:

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