Welcome to Skyline Drifter
A web page devoted to the artistic works of Marillion and Fish, in all varieties and combinations. This web page serves as a front end to the database of an extensive collection, as well as a portal to initiate communications with fellow collectors.
How this site works:
The entire collection is stored in a MySQL database, and all data pages are automatically generated through PHP code. On the left is a collection of year links, as well as other information; each of these links will update this right-hand column. The year pages will list shows from that year in an abbreviated format, but the dates are linked to 'detail' pages that contain track listings and other information. Near the top is a "detail filter' which allows the viewer to custom filter what is displayed. This filter remains in effective until either the session expires or the 'Clear Filter' button is pressed.
Requirements:
This site is designed for 1024x768 and above resolutions. It is viewable on lower resolutions, but I don't develop it with these in mind. It is also necessary for the browser to be javascript enabled and support stylesheets.
Trading:
While there is an entire section dedicated to what we trade and how... here is a comment from Marillion that does a good job to antifying why we dont trade copywritten material: Please Don't Upload Our Music!
Who are we?
We are Mark and Peter, two individuals from Tennessee and North Carolina, USA, respectively. We came across each other a ages ago in Napster and found a common interest from which this web page has blossomed. You can contact either of from the 'Friends' page!
Why?
Because people have hobbies and in our case, it happens that we have an almost obsessive tendency to collect live recordings of our favorite bands.
News:
October 24, 2009 - New fan in the Power supply.. took the site offline for about an hour. Hope it works better now!
October 16, 2009 - Sorry for the unstable server over the last several days.. two things happened. 1 - I was out of town.. and 2 - The fan in the power supply stopped turning. This caused the power supply to overheat and shut down. It is not cooling by other means until the new fan arrives.
September 5, 2009 - Thank you Peter for pointing out the broken image link for collection items...
August 23, 2009 - Oh dear.. the drive filled up and two of my PHP3 scripts are now zero length..I restored from backup.. but it was not the most current.. the result is that I cannot add shows to the database until I fix this. it will take some time..so..enjoy the site.. but no content updates for now. Sorry!
August 22, 2009 - It is amazing the problems you encounter.. AFTER.. you take a site live. If something does not work, go to the contacts page.. send me an email...I'm 'fixing' things actively... which may in turn break something else. Thanks for your help!.
August 18, 2009 - This is now the primary interface for the activities... you can still see the old webpage here: Original SkylineDrifter.
July 6, 2009 - Everything seems to be working correctly.. a quick restructure of the navigation... And I had to force IE8 into compatability mode due to something different in the way is reads the nav menus... But otherwise... it's coming together quickly... now to port the database over.
July 2, 2009 - Final beta testing is ongoing and this rewrite of the web page should be redirected as main in a few more weeks once the database is ported into the new structure. Development has taken, well years... I had a daughter born in there among many overseas trips and the general hussle and bussle of life. Here it is!
December 12, 2007 - Well.. some other things got in the way and I took several months off from working on this great project. But now..you'll notice the filter is working!!
July 8, 2007 - Welcome to the new incarnation of Skyline Drifter. The database has been restructured and entire web frontend has been recoded from the ground up to provide a more visually appealling and more accurate representation of the collection. It also fixes some limitations on the database that only became evident after the collection grew as large as it is.