Archive for September, 2008

Web Services is Growing

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

A part-time Web Associate has been hired to help us with the web site updates. Film at 11.

Innovation Lament

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

Tim and I have not had a chance to revamp our sale books’ online presentation since the initial rebuild, two years ago. Now, others have launched that put ours to shame, just as we had warned would happen.
It makes sense. Why pay for a premium service that is outdated and overpriced, when better services are [...]

Philosophy on Advertising

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

The purpose of this site is mostly personal. It logs a history of my mistakes and my journey of learning along the way. I hope that the occasional solutions I post to problems I come across will help you along the way, too.  I will not promise to post often. Instead, I promise to post [...]

Work flow and Project managing

Thursday, September 11th, 2008

How do other companies manage their projects? How do they track it? How are they testing it? What QA tests are used for dynamic sites?
Since our sites are static, our project management is simple. Everything is tracked on paper (which is funny for a department whose business is built around electronic files). Adding content managed [...]

The Unglamorous Side of Rocking the Boat

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

I don’t know if this applies to anyone else. This is my story about the pickle I’ve gotten myself into.
I have done a fair job of shaking things up for the Web department. I have even converted a few people in other departments into thinking a little different when attempting to solve a problem. [...]