Wow. It’s already been a busy week.

We released the new Athletics site at work that I have been developing for the last few months. That was Monday. I have gotten far fewer comments than I expected. And no news is good news as far as I’m concerned. Overall I’m pretty happy with it. Everything at work just seems to overwhelm me right now, so it’s good to have a major project out of the way. Check it out if you want: http://www.gcpanthers.com

I did a project for Randall a couple week ago. I’m only going to say this: I coded the design as a WordPress template in about 2.5 hours.

I’ve got a few projects on deck now (freelance speaking). One of those is a new WP template for a friend from back home. It’s a fun project. And I feel kind of bad because it’s not going to take that long to code, I just haven’t had much time the last few weeks what with work and preparing for my class. But it’s coming in the next couple of weeks. She’s got a really great blog and I’m excited to be a part of getting this design out for her. Check out tea@elevensies »

I start my first bout with teaching college students on Monday evening. I’m really excited about it, but have a bunch of work to do. I need to put together a better keynote presentation and finish up the first assessment for them. I need to get a feel for what they already know about web design. So I’m going to “test” them the first evening. They’ll get points just for taking the assessment, no matter what they know or don’t know. So hopefully the students will forgive me for a test during the first class.

If you’re interested, I could still use help creating questions for that initial test. Check out my previous post and leave the question you think I should ask.

I’m so glad I got a weekend this weekend. It’s been nice to get some paying work done.

The site I’ve been working on uses my Prodigious Wordpress template with some specific changes for the new artist.

One of those was pulling in gig data from the XML that ArtistData.com provides. It would be a heck of a lot easier if that site had any kind of API instead of making it ridiculously hard for us smart internet-types to get to what we need.

In any case, that was my weekend. I’ll post later when the site is live. Probably in a few days. But it’s looking good. If you want to play around with the theme itself, check it out here.

I finally got around to updating the Portfolio page here. It’s taken a long time, some frustration, and some good friends with keen eyes to get it looking good. But it’s there and I’m happy with it.

It uses a lot of the built-in WordPress gallery functionality. Since I store my photography over and Flickr and not here, I feel good about making the gallery function as the Portfolio. It works *pretty* well, but not perfectly. I say not perfectly because the next/previous image navigation isn’t super-helpful. I can’t have it automatically add a text link as well (as far as I can tell anyway), so that gets added in manually.

When I started doing this last night I had problems, and this morning it came down to the Shadowbox plugin breaking things. I replaced it with the venerable Lightbox 2 (which actually fits the bill better aesthetically) and everything is peachy.

Though it’s currently limited to web design, I’ll be adding some other media projects I’ve done in the near future. Since I focus on web projects, it just made sense to get those up.

Anyway, head over, take a look at stuff and tell me what you think!

Portfolio »

Wow, lack of updates. I guess I’m busy.

First things first, I quit ScriptFrenzy already. I just have too much to do right now. And for me, I found a lot more motivation in writing a novel than I do in writing a script. Every time I sit down to script I think “I have websites and jobs I should be working on” and so I do those instead.

And the fruits of that misplaces labour is that whatisawix.com is almost finished. And I’ve got a good bead on the GFMC site. AND I possibly have a new client from here at the school. That’s exciting. He’s a super cool guy and, from what I hear, an excellent musician.

Last Saturday I judged the AgapeFest Battle of the Bands. It was kind of a long afternoon, but I’ve judged the thing the last three years and ran it before that. So I knew what I was getting into. It was a pretty good show with some great bands and some good bands and some so-so bands. But that’s what you get at a battle.

So, in a month it’ll be festival time and that will take up my life for about two weeks. I’ve got video to coordinate and a staff to look after and probably something else that’ll come up. Sadly no friends in bands coming out this year, but that’s okay.

I’m also planning some cool micro-blogging on www.agapefest.com the week of set up. I think I found a WP plugin that’ll work out and we’ll be able to twitter from @agapefest and have WordPress pull in the photos we send to TwitPic via our iPhones and such. Probably should take my Flip camera out too. Man. This might actually be fun!

I am now all set up. We went out and picked up a cheap desk for me last night, set it up in our alcove in the office, and now I have a proper place to work.

I’ve been trying to work with my new laptop while sitting on a futon and either balancing the computer on my lap or putting it on our short coffee table. It hasn’t been comfortable.

But today I’ve gotten a lot of work done, sitting at my new desk! It’s exciting.

Working.