I have great news: the South Carolina Historic Properties Record is now live and can be explored at http://schpr.sc.gov! After much cobbling together of code, I present: SCHPR! (Or Morgan's Monster!!!) Below is a snapshot of the home page featuring tutorials, a carousel of images, and an interactive map of the SC counties. As with any website, I will need to make changes based on user feedback for a better user experience. We have some quirks that need to be resolved (like image captions only sometimes appearing), but overall, I'm happy with the site's performance. If you have a chance to look it over, send me a note on what you think of it!
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This is a very short post, but I just wanted to pass along a little bit of knowledge. I'm currently taking an online MySQL/PHP class through Midlands Technical College courtesy of my work. (Thanks SHPO/SCDAH!) It's a bit like going back and learning a foreign language after you've hobbled together some slang and "where's the bathroom, please?" In other words, extremely useful especially if we're trying to be sophisticated. And I'd like to write sophisticated code. Now, I've taken some time off from work to focus solely on getting this class done, and one of the first things I did? Download an AMPPS program for my little macbook pro. What's an AMPPS program you ask? Why only the easiest way to set up everything you need for a homegrown online database. Here's the tagline from ampps.com: AMPPS is a WAMP, MAMP and LAMP stack of Apache, MySQL, MongoDB, PHP, Perl & Python. Right, now I'm not sure that this is necessarily the best way to go for everyday business at the archives, but knowing that this software package was available when I was running the test environment for my database with CollectiveAccess would have have been incredibly helpful. Do you remember those endless days of my banging my head against the desk trying to install all of the necessary applications? I do! But no more! With AMPPS, downloading everything for use in a test environment is a breeze! So, if you are in need of a quick environment for trying out an online database instance or you're playing around with CollectiveAccess, visit http://www.ampps.com. I promise you won't regret it.
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About Morgan-I graduated in May 2014 with my Masters of Science in Library Science from UNC-Chapel Hill's School of Information and Library Science. I currently work for the South Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. I've been with them since June of 2014. Archives
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