This site is a personal babelist where I can display the celebrities that I like in a visual manner. While it might be more than a 'babelist' these days, initially it was pretty much just that and the term 'babelist' stuck, though I don't really like it.
Straight up I must provide credit to some of the resources I use throughout the site that I haven't coded (have modified them to integrate smoothly into the site).
Rating system: For those who have come from masugadesign.com to view the rating system integration on this site, here is how some of the changes are achieved: single image rating image is just a 45p x 300px image (45px to support the three different states), with the various css/ php modifications as required.
As for the nice clean voting urls (ie, http://localhost/zonlist/2feb_kristin_01/10), this is a bit trickier. Since I want to support non-javascript votes, I need to work out what page to return the user to after the vote is processed. I could simply use the http referrer and I do, but what if the user isn't sending a proper referrer for whatever reason? As such the voting url is built dependant on if the http referrer is a valid url of my site or not, and if not more info is added to the url to know where to return the user. There are modifications to the rating.js file to support these changes as the javascript builds the info to pass to the php from the voting url.
mod_rewrite urls (clean urls): This site uses alot of htaccess rewrites, because simply enough I like them. Better yet they scare off the majority of people who would hotlink these images anyway (myspace/ LJ users mostly). I back this up with strict anti-hotlinking, which is a requirement these days due to the large size of the images on this site.
All full-size images are left as I find them, complete with various website tags and what not. If someone wants to watermark an image (whether they paid for the rights to the image or not), I may as well leave the watermarks there so viewers can at least see the watermark and possibly visit that site the image originated from for more of the same. Thumbnails though I do take care with, trying to ensure the celeb is somewhat the focus of the preview image, and as such I'll usually remove any text/ watermark from the thumbnail. Why? a) this is a preview of a picture of the celebrity, b) it's a thumbnail, it's just a preview picture.
This bit just covers the changes of note.
2007-03-06
Updated the contact form to prevent basic spam usage, and fixed it since i'm pretty sure it has been broken since the previous update below. Added more descriptive text to the alt tags of the image thumbnails (says who the picture is of, etc), would like to be more specific (what shoot/ candid/ appearance that pic is/ from) but to do that woah.
2007-02-26
Disabled the image viewer page so thumbs link directly to pics once again. This is because i wasn't really a complete fan of the image viewer (it did have its pluses for sure) and _some_ of the suhq pics (7500x 8500) didn't display, something to do with the javascript. Set the default view type to last added instead of alphabetically. For the more regular visitors, for new vistors the sort method isn't important.
2007-02-22
Decent sized picture update. Been tinkering with some backend internal things. Got a fairly sizeable "(would like) to do" list for the next version of this script. Hadn't touched this site for a while but should be getting back into things. Noticed that thumbnails on the main page are indexed in google but not thumbs off individual girls pages or fullsize pic pages. Probably won't bother trying to fix this till next version though.
2006-11-07
More rewriting of admin sections. Discovered Poodle Predicator, so spent a while changing how links work across the site. So for the time being some links are nicely mod_rewrite'ed while others aren't. So what I really mean is the poodle results for the site just confused me to hell :). I mean, why does their spider follow some rewritten links correctly and not others, shrug
2006-10-30
Rewrote some admin sections. Rewrote how fullsize images are displayed (they are now embedded inside a html page). Cleaned up this about page. Added navigation to the about & error pages.
2006-09-22
Latest picture is complete, around 910 new pics. Three new girls: rachael, nathalie, nicole. Added support for honorable mentions, becoming concerned about the size of the navigation list. Finally fixed the admin sessions so I can be logged into multiple users admins at once. Fixed friends links in navigation.
2006-09-14
Updated this about page. Almost got the images for the next picture update ready. Been putting off doing the jessica alba images cause I may have "harvested" a few images and I don't really want to sort through them all. Accidentally added the a:visited colours early (was fixing xhtml error) and don't really have time to fix it up completely yet.
2006-09-11
Turned on conan's babelist. Conan is a friend who I offered to do a babelist for. Took some time to re-work the babelist to support multiple lists. The codings fairly messy as /conan/ is a real directory and /zonlist/ isn't. As such, lots of htaccess fun.
2006-09-08
New rating system is in. Based on the rating system linked to at top of this page, modified to support my linking style, single rating image and smooth intergration into the existing babelist code.