Book Commercials & Misanthropic Observations

Long awaited design fix

By long awaited, I don’t mean that anyone other than me actually cares- only that I have been really wanting to do this well for a long time.

Problem: My wonderful book collector program has a handy export to html feature. It doesn’t have a handy export to excel or mySQL and I have been insisting on trying to create our online book inventory in these formats to allow for a search query- after all, who wants to browse a million HTML pages? Without a search this online inventory is well, boring.

Secondary problem- I needed to find a way to manage the handily exported HTML pages, because, let’s be realistic, I’m only going to keep it up if it’s “1 click” easy. And well, the “1 click” pages are ugly. I wanted a customized header, a pretty page, without all the extra work of adding this header to each “1 click” exported page.

Answer to problem 1: Zoom search engine - this post’s random helpful tip-

Answer to problem 2: iframe pulling of “1 click” pages into single pretty page.

Leading to problem 3: how to make Zoom search engine work with iframes; which I have been too lazy to learn the answer to - until today.

Now I will actually keep the books database updated- it’s 1 click easy. Ok, 3 clicks- 1 to export pages, 2 to upload new pages, 3 to update search database.

See final result here - the book review, recommend part