http://www.kyleschaeffer.com/personal/announcing-thumbsticks-com/ Best practices and design related to all things web. Mon, 06 Sep 2010 07:34:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.kyleschaeffer.com/personal/announcing-thumbsticks-com/#comment-795 New and Improved: ThumbSticks.com - Kyle Schaeffer - Interface Design and Best Practices on the Web Fri, 26 Mar 2010 21:14:48 +0000 http://www.kyleschaeffer.com/?p=257#comment-795 [...] I’ve totally revamped my weekend project, ThumbSticks.com. An entirely new visual presentation accompanies what I hope to be the final version of my ambitious new website. I’m still working on adding box art and other media to the thousands of products you can find on the site, but it’s come quite a long way since last year when I officially launched the initial beta. [...] [...] I’ve totally revamped my weekend project, ThumbSticks.com. An entirely new visual presentation accompanies what I hope to be the final version of my ambitious new website. I’m still working on adding box art and other media to the thousands of products you can find on the site, but it’s come quite a long way since last year when I officially launched the initial beta. [...]

]]> http://www.kyleschaeffer.com/personal/announcing-thumbsticks-com/#comment-794 Kyle Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:26:00 +0000 http://www.kyleschaeffer.com/?p=257#comment-794 Jacinto, it's all custom built on a Linux server using Apache, MySQL, and PHP. I decided to go that route since the site is really all about the data (I'm in the process of adding over 20,000 more games to the already 10,000 that are present in the site now). Having everything custom-built really helps me to manipulate every little area of the site's functionality that I need to change. Jacinto, it’s all custom built on a Linux server using Apache, MySQL, and PHP. I decided to go that route since the site is really all about the data (I’m in the process of adding over 20,000 more games to the already 10,000 that are present in the site now). Having everything custom-built really helps me to manipulate every little area of the site’s functionality that I need to change.

]]> http://www.kyleschaeffer.com/personal/announcing-thumbsticks-com/#comment-793 Jacinto Fri, 04 Dec 2009 07:10:58 +0000 http://www.kyleschaeffer.com/?p=257#comment-793 Looks great....I was wondering if the back end is all custom or is it a pre built script. Looks great….I was wondering if the back end is all custom or is it a pre built script.

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