Where have I been?
I don’t get to spend as much time as I would like on my site and updates are becoming obviously, very far and few between.
These past couple months have been filled with quite a bit and any thought toward personal projects have just pushed off for some rainy day.
At work, I’m developing various business verticals that are supposed to make the Sentinel quite a bit of money. The first one is an auto solution - somewhat similiar to Yahoo.com’s Auto Solution (minus a couple things). We’ve teamed up with a company in Ohio called Celebro that offers some backend auto solution. Right now I’m sifting through all their documentation and code to produce something workable.
On top of that, we just got contracted to take over the Tulip Time website. We’re hoping to go live with that in a couple months. I’m not sure if I’ll be designing the site yet but I’m currently doing some intense research on ecommerce solutions for the site. I think we’re going to use the Miva platform and hope that it’s everything we need and more (crossing-fingers).
Business & Web Standards
Other than the things listed above, I’ve been heavly discussing the business cases for web standards with a primary focus on the online-journalism biz. Parts of the conversation have been posted for others to see what’s going on (Note: I’m quoted in the 4th paragraph & the 2nd to last paragraph) Most of the conversation has been taking place with a rather large group on poynter.org.With that - A recent article by Jeffrey Veen of Adaptive Path makes a case for converting to standards compliant, semantically expressive site production.
Although these are just a couple quick (out of the many) points for converting to standard development - it’s a good read.
“Does designing to Web standards give organizations a return on investment? Does the transition to XHTML and CSS make financial sense? The answer to those questions is yes.”
Other Personal Things
As you can see I have quite a bit going on. Outside of work, I’ve picked up some new client freelance gigs and will be working hard this month to get those done as well.However - things are going good and I’m making it through it all with a clear mind. It’s nice to be busy and to learn new things. The only sad part about it all is the time it takes me away from working on my personal website. It needs some work and I hope to some day give it a good cleaning.
