Shepherd Soft
Description
Shepherd Soft was a personal web site that I have made for myself. I used it to show off the different games that I had created or was in the process of creating. It served as a location to learn more about these games and to download them.
The main layout of the page was done using HTML Tables. However, the colors, font sizes, backgrounds, etc. were all done using CSS.
The web site used php to keep track of the number of downloads each file on the site received. This information was displayed in a php generated graph which could show results by months, weeks, or days. The most popular fileson the site were the scripts and haks that I designed for a computer game called Neverwinter Nights.
Shepherd Soft was a good way for me to learn how to use tables for layout as clean as possible. I used the page in my CHum 284 class as the midterm for two semesters. The students would be given a screenshot of the page and asked to recreate it from scratch. Most students did pretty well but the pages would generally overly complex because of the table structure. I have since changed my teaching to focus more on using CSS Layouts.
Shepherd Soft has currently be taken down and is in the process of being redesigned with a pure CSS design and a more robust index page to allow for news items to be more accessible and visible.