Gigha Gallery
smashingglass can now be found at Gigha Gallery craft shop on beautiful
inner Hebridean Isle of Gigha. See gighagallery.com for details of art exhibitions
craft workshops and Gaelic lessons
looking for peace and natural beauty, wildlife,safe beaches,
great food,stunning gardens and views of the Hebrides
it`s got to be Gigha. Met office predicts hot dry Summer!!
You can now subscribe to the Gigha Gallery blog and our Products.
If this works perhaps we'll make a podcast of waves crashing slowly against the shore 8-).
Just click this 
icon for our blog feed
Here is a link from to the BBC 5 day weather forecast for the Isle of Gigha.
It didn't take long to get the smashing
glass webshop site together and able to take credit card payments online
with paypal and drupal
- a small retailers match made in heaven. This site runs on Drupal 4.7 which
is real sweet, totally intuitive with lots of help it is a beautiful system.
Here is a webshop howto tutorial then:
Get a webserver with a webhost.
It must run PHP and a database - I used MySQL.
I was recommended to get a LAMP server - that acronym is LINUX, Apache, MySQL, PHP.
props to Peter Drupal Blog for the quick howto and link.
How to bulk upload images, thus products to a drupal e-commerce web shop.
I'm going to try this this.
A few folks have asked me how this whole web shop thingy is put together and what do I mean by free software and open source.
My servers run on GNU / Linux. A free operating system (all computer need on to operate).
I use Apache to serve the HTML and multimedia, the content is stored in a database - currently I am using MySQL, and the webscripting language PHP which preprocesses the request for a web page, queries the database and using a template make the web page you are looking at now.
Here is a link to our shop on google maps
Directions to our gigha shop.
I just made the layout glassy. Its not really made of glass though 8-). It is CSS gleaned from the downloadable tutorial on Eric Meyer's Excellent Site on the subject of CSS Web-Design zen.
More Specifically it is a fixed width non tiling background, er...thingy as in :
background-image: url(beach.jpg);
background-position: 0 0;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-attachment: fixed;
and
background-image: url(beachb.jpg);