Geek Habitat

After the past couple day’s insanity with the server and email outages, today was a truly wonderful, productive day.

Our OutdoorPhoto.com website, relaunched on Memorial Day, now features all the trappings required to market our portrait photography services — you know, family portraits, pet portraits, that sort of thing.

“It’s Guuuuuuud! It’s Guuuuuuuuuuuuuuud!”
(Sorry, that’s probably only grin-worthy if you’ve seen the movie “Bruce Almighty”.)

I’m particularly happy with the way this turned out (click the “Submit” button — it won’t send anything if left blank.) The u.i. was inspired directly by Kalsey Consulting Group’s “Form Errors. Simplified.” article.

I stumbled across the Kalsey article while searching for guidance on a PHP conundrum I had, and I was so taken with their treatment of form field validation, I switched gears — rewrote most of the code I’d been working on — and ran with it. End result? Something much better than I’d initially envisioned.