lenkaclayton.co.uk (Website Design)
My first data-driven website was one I built for my sister lenka, an artist and filmmaker. She asked me to build a site to enable her to put up pictures and writeups of her artworks and films. To save time I had planned to use a pre-built template system such as plone.
However, being an artist she wanted complete control over how it looked and operated so I had to build a site from scratch in php. It was a good opportunity to learn how to use php, mysql, html, javascript and css all in one go.
Another requirement was that she should be able to add pictures and details for her projects herself, without me needing to edit the site manually. So I created a series of html forms that read and write to and from the database, which I ended up adapting for my own use on this site.
She's put up a lot of her work now, including her infamous 'Queda Quality Question Quickly Quickly Quiet' film - George Bush's 2001 state of the union address cut up and arranged into alphabetical order, as well as her award-winning 'People in Order' series for Channel 4.
