jQuery.widget() method, which I needed to customize a lot of controls), and for the first time even the Metro UI CSS Framework. The graphic template is also a free one downloaded from the internet and is not my own work, so compared to my other websites it looks great and not nearly as boring. So what does this website contain? It is primarily meant to showcase my desktop applications and to let you download the individual versions of each application. I spent the most time playing with the part you do not see, namely the admin section. To give you an idea of what my famous admin panel looks like, take a look at these pictures:
2) features of the website for visitors, so first
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Rankings – A comparison of all applications by the “results” they have achieved – so far in terms of the number of downloads, page views and “yes, I like this application”. The TOP10 applications are shown, which I do not even have yet, only 3, but over the course of tonight and tomorrow I will be adding more programs from GitHub. You can also filter these rankings and the applications in them, so far only by console applications, GUI applications and all applications. When you click on Rankings in the header, all applications are displayed.
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Technologies page – a short piece about what I like, what I program in and also what my programming story is. It does not include the real reason why I started programming, but nobody cares about that these days anyway.
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Searching projects by tags (labels). You can get to the tags from the apps home page.
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Searching projects by text . The algorithm is simple – it first searches the program name, then its description and then all of its versions. That is also why the search results first show matching program names (even partial ones), then matches in application descriptions and then matches in version changes. And one more great thing – I know it will not mean much to you, but I put a bit more work into it and the search uses indexes throughout, so it should also be very fast :-).
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A list of all applications in the form of tiles or an app cloud – again on the home page.
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Important links – a few important links to programming resources.
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the App page , which shows the details of an application. If you want, you can download the recommended version as well as the latest one here (but if you want a different one, that is possible too, you just need to have the link or look it up, either on my website or by googling it – however, Google probably will not index it when the only way to reach it is through the search. Idea for improvement – list all versions of the program on the versions page. There is plenty of information about everything. The tabs available here are:
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Information – meta info about the program. It always applies 100% only to the recommended version.
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Photo gallery – relatively large screenshots of the application including captions.
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Application versions – the recommended and the latest version for download, including meta information. Every download is tracked.
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Software it depends on – I did not think this one through very well. I believe that these days .NET FW applications have their own bootstrapper, which downloads the things you do not have on your PC and that are needed to run the application. So for now I am putting there what it was originally intended for, but perhaps in the future it will change to “Additional files” – and I will put my own files there.
