The purpose of this site is to display my bird photos and to learn web application technology. Below are the steps that I took in putting this together.
1) I started this off by developing a database that would hold birds, group them taxonomically and also hold photograph information. I wanted to learn Java programming, specifically how to create a program with a user interface that would manipulate a database. The program allows one to add, edit or delete most of the objects in the database. The result of this was what I called the Bird Database Interaction Program (BDIP). I will create screen shots below which show specifically what this program does. In short, this is the program I use to administer the bird database that the web page accesses.
2) Using Java Servlets I created a web site that allows users to view the photos I have online. The user can search the list of birds based on a number of factors (Search Bird button), see a complete list of the birds in the database ordered taxonomically (List All Birds button), or search birds by Location (Location Search - future).
I will add more to this section as time permits.