Archive for January, 2008

Small Perks

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

Once a year a catalog that weighs nearly ten pounds crosses my desk and each employee gets to choose an agenda or calendar, compliments of the company. I picked up this action agenda, and so far it has worked very well for me.
Since we are left to our own devices when it comes to project [...]

In Choosing a CMS

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

Deciding among the myriad of options available is no easy task. The choices range from premium paid CMS packages to open source, from blog-flavored to roll-your-own. I looked at Content Management Systems recommended by developers, designers, do-it-yourself hobbyists, and non-profit professionals. What follows is a not entirely coherent record of my thoughts and the testing [...]

Project Managing

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

A discovered caveat to laissez-faire style managing: our white board projects have fallen by the wayside. Freedom can be a hard responsibility. In an effort to balance the site updates with projects that can have a real impact on what we do every day, I am attempting an experiment.
As of Wednesday, January 2, my days [...]

2007 Stats

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

We currently maintain 220 sites, with several still waiting to launch. 227 sites are currently listed on our VIP page, but 7 are projects maintained by the editorial department.
Out of the 220 sites:

139 were updated at least once this year (63%)
133 have been migrated to Dreamweaver (60%)
92 have CSS layouts (42%)

When we obtained Adobe Web [...]