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Archives for the November 2009

Products Sites

Today I find myself working on a new project that is somewhat different that the usual website that I'm asked to build. What I'm working on is a website that is product based, and not so much "news" related. These types of small projects are fun because they take you away from the "normal" development that I do for a "typical" client.

This client also gave me free artistic reign to develop whatever I felt necessary to get the products point of view across. Basically the message to me was:

Make it look good and help us sell a lot of this stuff.

 

 

Posted: Saturday, November 21, 2009

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Newsroom CMS

As you may recall from a previous post (I'm In The News), I have a client that has asked for a fairly simple CMS to publish their daily news. Currently, they have no CMS and more importantly, they have no archiving and the website is built by hand two times a day. In addition to there not being a CMS, there is also no way to publish the next days edition unless someone is sitting at the controls and does it manually.

In a day and age of many open source CMSs, it baffled my mind to no end why a very large company didn't have a system in place that would provide this functionality. After working with the developers and content editors for a while, it dawned on me why there has never been a good solution. The products on the market today simply aren't customizable enough.

Posted: Wednesday, November 18, 2009

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Spam Stinks

In my inbox I noticed an email that looked like it was submitted via my "Contact Me" form on the website. When I get these, I get kinda excited because it means that somebody wants to speak with me regarding something I've written here. However, there are always exceptions to the rule, and today that was the case.

I got the following email, which initially got me excited but as I read on I saw that it was nothing more than form spam.

Posted: Thursday, November 12, 2009

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I feel like a bad host

It feels like it's been forever that I've been here and communicated with you about the projects I'm working on. I even got an email asking "Have you Quit?". No No, quite the opposite actually. I've been so busy that it's hard to find any free time outside of projects and family to dedicate to writing. However, tonight I was able to find that time and jot a few notes down.

So here's an update on how a few of my latest projects are going.

Posted: Wednesday, November 11, 2009

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