A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away I started a little project to help me learn ASP.NET C# in more depth, I called it ASPLD (ASP.NET Link Directory) and my vision was to grow it to become a direct .NET competitor to PHPLD. But reality hit me, and I just didn’t have the time to invest in it (Ok, ok I got bored with it) and I got more interested in other things like PPC & Umbraco.
While clearing out my computer today I stumbled on my old project, which I had started to port into using Subsonic a few months back… So with my new love of Umbraco in mind, I thought instead of laying it to rest in the ‘Bin De Recycle Of Never Return’ I would turn it into a simplified Umbraco Package for people to use and hopefully adapt and make better then I ever could. Well I’m half a day in and I’m amazed how much I have done in that short amount of time, the only stumbled block (Well not so much of a stumbling block) is having lots of nested nodes - due to the amount of categories and businesses people could potentially add.
Anyway, I thought I would show a couple of progress screenshots – And just say to everyone, if you have old projects/ideas you started and never finished (I have loads)… Pull the gloves back on, dust off the project folder and have a whirl at porting into Umbraco. Even if you scale it down to begin with like I have, at least its a start and maybe something useful can come of that thought to be dead idea. [more]
In half a day I have listings in with paging in XSLT (Thanks Tim), category structure sorted, and submission form almost done – Not bad for 1/2 a days work I’d say, especially as this is my first go at a real project :)
Here is an old live version of ASPLD (http://directory.n3o.co.uk/) – And here are some screen shots of my Umbraco Package attempt so far, once finished I’ll give the front end a long needed facelift ;)
