mysql bookshelf design

I have been wanting to make an easy-to-administer digital web bookshelf for quite a while now. Delicious Library was a great concept and a good piece of software, but it is not a web application. To my surprise, I discovered the Delicious Library SQL Exporter on macupdate.com… allowing me to get all my Delicious information into a pre-built SQL database.

A few hours later… with some custom graphics, CSS, and PHP… I was able to get the information from the database to display nicely on the web. If you want to play around with the files/code…

Go to mySQL Bookshelf here…

bookshelf

Note: this solution relies on transparent PNG files in order to allow for easy swapping of background “wallpaper”. It is not compatible with Internet Explorer 6.

I have tested with Firefox and Safari and both seem to display the bookshelf nearly identically. I do not have access to internet exploer 7, but I would be interested to see how well it handles teh CSS.

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