I updated my Gallery portfolio!

decibel.places's picture

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I finally updated my portfolio!

This weekend I discarded dead or lightweight projects from my portfolio and added some recent ones.

I was putting it off for months, finally a headhunter asked me to update my résumé for a $100K job (tell your kids that there is a future in programming) and I realized I had to redo my portfolio as well.

I use Gallery, which embeds nicely in my Drupal personal site, but I provide a link to a page that will pop open the portfolio in a customized window, nearly full screen. The base page also provides a link back to my web site.

I also added the RSS of the portfolio to my Feedburner account!

AND I added the portfolio sitemap to my Google Webmaster account.

It's a little tricky because you need to verify the site with Google and Gallery creates "virtual" URL paths. Here's how I finally did it:

In my gallery directory I renamed main.php to 0main.php so I could create a sub directory gallery/main.php/ with a subdirectory sitemap gallery/main.php/sitemap/ and in sitemap I placed a blank html file with the Google generated metatag in the head. I had to name the html file index.php becuase I got access denied with index.html - gallery/main.php/sitemap/index.php - so that worked for verification, then I deleted the main.php/sitemap/index.php folder and renamed the 0main.php file back to main.php

Success Laughing out loud

RTFVerterra's picture

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Wow, a $100K job, amazing. It's a lot for us here in the Philippines. I wonder if I can turn my hobby (website development) into a profitable career. I don't know where to start, can any body share how?

greg's picture

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"If you don't want to view the Portfolio full screen in a new window, click here"

Takes me to a page that says "File is writable by others, please fix permissions and try again."

decibel.places's picture

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greg wrote:
Takes me to a page that says "File is writable by others, please fix permissions and try again."

error fixed, not sure where that came in, it was working last time I viewed it, must have been the manipulations I made to get Google Webmaster Tools to verify the site.

greg's picture

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It happens.
No matter how many errors you find and fix, and then afterwards test and find nothing, it's always someone else who discovers an issue.

Usually a client asking why something doesn't work that when you tested had worked fine.

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