Well it’s not completed, but we have made a start on it. I got one of the programmers I use on contact to hammer out a mock up for the front end display. (If this is broken when you try it, the programmer is working on the backend.) It’s not the best lay out but it gives you the idea of what kind of a simple interface I envision. Also we may change the way we are doing this.
Right now we are using PHP GD to take the data from the mySQL database and create JPG images and preloading them. When you mouse over one of the keywords it is just displaying a preloaded graph image in the same place the blank image is.
Yes I know that’s lame but like I said this is just a mockup not the end product. I am still waiting to find someone in the know that can give me some consulting time and tell me the best way to do this. Until then we will blindly stumble forward.
I like the concept that we have come up with as far as the display. I don’t like the lay but I will be brain storming on that one.
Stay tune – tomorrow it’s the RSS feed and the XML to XHTML converter. Then we will have this thing displaying on an external site.