Wotton Pool

This is a site for a small outdoor pool in Gloucestershire. I have run a website for Wotton Pool since about 1999, it was the first website I ever made (in Publisher!)

Since this first dabble into web design, Wotton Pool has seen many a re-design. The latest of which is this one! It features parts of my experimentation into PHP programming. One such example is the thermometer on the home page, which gives the operators of the site the opportunity to display the current water temperature on a CSS adjusted graphical ‘thermometer’.

Phone Screen

In an effort to justify this functionality I made sure that the site was coded in valid XHTML so that the temperature record can be updated from a mobile phone.

The site also features an integration of a simple CMS called WBNews, this is an include based CMS which is used for entering items of news onto the news page, and onto a spotlight on the home page.

This CMS turned out not to be very good, and broke when moving servers. Always wanting to try something new, I decided to make my own CMS to replace it. This would be the first CMS I have made from scratch, especially of the object orientated variety. It is a simple attempt using SQL and PHP to serve up the news and keep track of newsletter subscribers. It was great fun learning how it all worked, and so satisfying. Lets hope there will be more!

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