The framework of the new Callidus Collection site is now in place.  From this point forward, the site and its organization will look more or less like this.

The links at the top obviously give you an idea of the different sections of the site.  There is one section for each of the different components of my collection: Games, Guides, and Movies, along with a photo gallery showing the evolution of my game room, and a list of some of my favorite places on the web.

I am debating adding a separate section for Swag as well.  Right now I have it as a sub-category of the Games section, but if Guides get their own section maybe Swag should too.

The next project is creating a template page that will work with my new database.  Since the old Callidus Collection site got hacked and put on my back burner, I have started using the Game Collector app from Collectorz.com to inventory my video game collection.  I used to just keep everything in an Exel spreadsheet and export the spreadsheet data to a very basic SQL database that powered the list pages on the old site.  Game Collector is much nicer for cataloging my collection (and outputting it to my Game Collector iPhone app with the click of a button), however the app is a little bit limited in terms of data export customization.  If does export to text, HTML, or XML nicely, but none of them directly do what I need.  What I would really like is the ability to export my Game Collector data directly to a SQL database.  I may have to export the data to a CSV file and then convert that into a SQL database that can power the sites listings.

The project rolls on...