ASI Yearbooks TO-DOs and Concepts

When I put the yearbook site together back in 2002, I was in a hurry to finish before the Las Vegas reunion. I resisted using CSS, as most people were still using browsers that didn't support it particularly well. The web server was a weak in the knees Power Macintosh 6100/60 running Linux, so I didn't want to bog the thing down with PHP, either. Instead, I generated the hundreds of static html pages needed using a short Perl script, and manually cleaned up any loose ends.

The results seemed to satisfy the alumni who've visited the site. Now that a few years have passed, I'm getting in the mood to both bring the coding up to current html standards, and to add a few features. Among my intentions are to:

[Done] Replace the Javascript menus with CSS menus. As a bonus, they'll look much cleaner.
Structure page content using CSS rather than tables.
Explicitly support mobile browsers.
[Done, replaced Perl scripts with Python] Since they'll need to be updated anyway for the CSS, add some features to the page generator scripts.
[Done] Redo the look of a few non-yearbook pages, such as the 'About' page.
To host added photos, install Gallery.
[Available for '74] Add a name search function.
[Done several times] Rehosting: [~2005] Rehosted from PPC 6100/60 to Powerbook G3. [~2007] A giveaway iMac G3 400. [1/08] A giveaway G4 tower, to which I added OS X 10.4, RAM, disk space, and a dual processor upgrade. [~2010] A used Mac Mini Intel Solo. [~2011] A used Mac Mini Intel Dual Core.