personal dvd collection web pages

[neo26k]

Hello everyone...if you have created personal online dvd collections can you post in this thread. Please no DVDAficionado, Guzzlefish, DVDTracker etc collections...

I'm talking about web pages you created on your own with you whole dvds and all...I just want to get some ideas.

thanks...

[Moonraker]

Link is in my signature

[C Roberts]

My very simple page.

www.geocities.com/darkendale/DVD.html

[Marq]

Paul.n3w has a beautiful one. I'll let him come and post the link.

[Jerm]

Mine is in my signature.
It's not entirely up to date.

[DancinDave]

Mine is in the sig...

I was going to revamp it over xmas, but I never got around to it.

[Vonner]

Here is mine

The DVD tracking program that I wrote (DVD Inventory) automatically creates it.

[Paul.n3w]

Originally Posted by Marq

Paul.n3w has a beautiful one.

Thanks Marq!
The link to mine is in my sig! I am such a geek, I love lists and charts and junk so I continue adding to my DVD list whenever I get a new idea.

(I just added the Blind Buy column after posting in this thread)

[neo26k]

thanks for all the replies everyone, most of your personal sites I've already bookmarked. Really cool designs I might add... I still haven't found the one I'm lookin for though, man I wish I would of bookmarked when I found it. Anyhow thanks for links, I've gotten many ideas so far.

[Dirty]

Heres mine

simple design and easy on the eyes. I havent updated it in about a month though, I use dvdaf now since its a lot easier to add movies. I really hate having to add the new html codes just to keep it up to date so I just use dvdaf for now.

[tomdkat]

You've all got some cool DVD lists!

Peace...

[leemik]

heres mine:

http://www.mike-lee.org/scripts/dvdd...dreviewmain.pl

--mike

[Paul.n3w]

Originally Posted by leemik

heres mine:
http://www.mike-lee.org/scripts/dvdd...dreviewmain.pl
--mike

This is awesome. You put a TON of effort into this. Great job and great presentation of all the 'extra' info (like the charts on the right and the stats/reports).

I'm sending you a question via PM to not derail the thread

[Jerm]

Originally Posted by Paul.n3w

This is awesome. You put a TON of effort into this. Great job and great presentation of all the 'extra' info (like the charts on the right and the stats/reports).

Wow, let me second that. That's much cooler better than mine (which is quite simple, I just extract info from my database, and drop it into a template html file) and I like it much better than Profiler.

[leemik]

Thanks so much..I got most of my inspiration from the Apple website....and sorry the site is a little slow because I host on my cable modem at home and it's graphics heavy.

I also wrote a different custom script to do my music too:
http://www.mike-lee.org/scripts/cdda...atabasemain.pl

This one I modeled after the Windows Media OS..

--mike

[neo26k]

Mike, it's your personal site I've been searching for all over the net. I don't know if you visit dvdtalk.com as well, but I also started this exact same thread there hoping to come across your site there. Because I didn't remember where exactly I had found your site.

Your site is awesome and it's exactly what I was looking for. I just want to get some ideas to when I build my small personal site. I've came across many great looking sites including yours as well. So thank you...one question do offer your scripts? plmk...I'm still newbie at html and all.

Once again you got one great lookin site!

[shnikey]

How do you all get the images for your DVD's? Do you have an automated way of doing it, or do you just dl em?

-Shnikey

[leemik]

Originally Posted by neo26k

Mike, it's your personal site I've been searching for all over the net. I don't know if you visit dvdtalk.com as well

Well jeez, I'm flattered... and yes, I'll give anyone full source code.. just send me an email at mike{nospam remove}@mike-lee.org and I'll tell you the gory details of how it basically works and how to get it...

The code is not real pretty however.. I didn't use CSS and I'm sure w3c.org would have a heartattack looking at my html I started the project to improve my CGI skills about a year ago and I add features in spurts.

Yes, I do frequent DVDtalk... I'm sure everyone here does

Shnikey: I currently download the images or scan them in myself... I have quite a few discs that no one has high quality covers to.

--mike

[neo26k]

yhm Mike, talk to ya later!

[Travis Bickle]

A dvdfile forum member pdjennings has a pretty spiffy dvd web page. I haven't seen him around here for quite awhile so I'll post his site its www.pdjennings.com He literally has thousands of dvds in his collection and pictures to prove it.

[Phreak]

Mike & PDJ both have awesome pages. If I had the skills to do something similar, or the collection to warrant it, I'd want it to look something like theirs.

[shnikey]

I have always wanted to start a project like this, but then I look at my collection and it looks like a dounting task to enter them all into a db. Not to mention getting images for all of them.

-Shnikey

[leemik]

Originally Posted by shnikey

I have always wanted to start a project like this, but then I look at my collection and it looks like a dounting task to enter them all into a db. Not to mention getting images for all of them.

-Shnikey

You have to be pragmatic about it--do it in little bits.. and make the computer do the work for you as much as it can. If I had to do it all over again, here's how I would do it:

build the database first:
1. Design the DB with the fields you want to capture. Include the movie name, imdb url and dvdempire url.
2. Enter the movie name, imdb url and dvdempire url of each disk manually.
3. Write a CGI LWP (perl or php) script to visit and borrow *all* the information you need from these two sites (including a download of the picture)..

At this point, the database is done.. You'll probably have to tweak the data though because I have found some inaccuracies on both sites... and some times you just want things your way.

build the UI or webpage
1. Think of a cool UI or, make a basic one using CGI. Create scripts to add/delete/modify and display the data..

It shouldn't take more than a coupla months to get something basic looking but fairly complete... unless you have 4000 DVDs

--mike

[shnikey]

I have already before written a program you to yank info of IMDB. It took me awhile to write because the way I did it I had to parse all of the HTML; is that what you did. Anyways, thanks for the tips. I like the idea of doing my own instead of using a Guzzlefish, for example, because then it is my way.

-Shnikey

[Paul.n3w]

It's much easier to think your DB through before creating it. I started my list with a small amount of info about each release, and then added feature after feature over time... it makes for messy code and DB. But I've got most of it straightened out over time. Now I'm trying to think of new things to add to the list again :p

Also, for getting cover art... the easiest and quickest way I've found is to use Ron Crawley's Gotcha Covered. You can find a demo here: http://home.mchsi.com/~ron.crawley/ and the registration only costs $4 or $5. Well worth it if you will be finding cover art for a large amount of DVDs.