For a few weeks I've been writing my own site, mostly as a showcase to highlight some of my web programming skills. I don't get to show what I can do all the time.. usually I'm focused on a company product or a desktop application. So I needed something where I could expand some skills and express myself in a programmatic way. And so I started writing a little gallery site on my laptop, inbetween cups of latte on saturdays. For fun I've placed some suggestions mentioned here in the Bryce forum to help hinder ppl who wish to copy someone's gallery image.. drawbridgep had some good suggestions for the 2nd mouse button. Someone mentioned an automatic watermark on images. I thought it would be nice for the artist to select which type of feature he/she wants to place on an image.

Recently I've been moving every personal web project I do onto IIS7. Now I'm looking to invest in more capable software. I'm not going with Apache, it'll be IIS7, and I'm not going with MySQL.. it'll probably be MS SQL Server, or PostgreSQL. I'm preparing to buy more capable hardware too, mostly a new motherboard for the web server and a watercool unit. I have everything else needed.

So now that I know it is doable, I'm looking around for other things. The style, the layout. Programming I can do it all. I'm not a 2D artist, though, so so-far I've been keeping the look of the prototype site very simple. Need ideas.