How to display...

[Xaos]

So, i'm creating a biology project (if you haven't gathered from my other threads). The question here is -- what is the best way to display it? I'm going to have the user input a few things, then the code runs, ya know, simple stuff. It's written in PHP, but I won't have a problem trying to translate it to some other stuff (just gotta learn some simple syntax if I don't know it). What I was thinking was create the design and photoshop like it was a program or even a web app, and just have it loaded up on a laptop or something for the people to judge. (This also concides with my app idea, which is seperate. If I can get it into app form, I wnat to have the app and this computer side as a display). Is there some other way you guys think would be better? Maybe creating an .exe and having just that on the desktop and the judges click that and it opens up the project? Just gimme ideas.

[Jackolantern]

Honestly, I would go web. You can spice it up with some JS/jQuery.

I don't know what it is. I tell people I can program software, and they are like "Oh, cool". I mention something about web sites, and they freak out, saying "Oh whoa, wait...you can make website?!" For some reason the web still mysticizes people. I think it also has to do with the fact that it hits closer to home today, since everyone uses the Internet, but fewer people use tons of applications (at least they don't think they do, when they aren't thinking about mobile apps).

The same thing even happened the other day with my mother. She knows I have been programming for years, but freaked out and was really impressed when I told her I can make web applications. Go figure

[Xaos]

Honestly, I would go web. You can spice it up with some JS/jQuery.

I don't know what it is. I tell people I can program software, and they are like "Oh, cool". I mention something about web sites, and they freak out, saying "Oh whoa, wait...you can make website?!" For some reason the web still mysticizes people. I think it also has to do with the fact that it hits closer to home today, since everyone uses the Internet, but fewer people use tons of applications (at least they don't think they do, when they aren't thinking about mobile apps).

The same thing even happened the other day with my mother. She knows I have been programming for years, but freaked out and was really impressed when I told her I can make web applications. Go figure

Haha. So what would you reccomend? Obviously I don't want to pay for a domain and hosting and whatnot. Just make a "mock" in a localhost?

With the "mock", I could put like all of my scientific projcet thing ont here (like the info, hypothesis, etc.) and like the "instructions" and then have the actual code.

[Jackolantern]

Running it locally would actually be preferable. The vast majority of people won't know its not on the web, plus that way you are guaranteed to be able to access it when you need to present. The last thing you would want is to get up to show it off, only to find the WiFi is down or something like that