Archive for February, 2009

Spring cleaning

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

Flex 3 projects and news coming soon: I have a list of useful resources for beginners, a few sample projects of my own to show and a short progress report on my own RIA in a post for next week.
For now, just another clean up project…mostly a running list and reminder to myself, so I [...]

Cleaning up Sydenstricker

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

Sydenstricker has multiple needs, but for now I focused on organizing files, deleting unused files and cleaning up old code. It still won’t validate, but it’s cleaner than it was before.
One of the major changes was adding the automatically updating pedigree tag to the animal pages, replacing the static pedigrees. The pedigree and EPD tags [...]

Working with Flex 3

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

Predictable as ever, requests for updates to our clients’ sites are picking up as everyone gears up for the Spring Sale season. It’s comforting to see that demand hasn’t slowed, despite the media’s constant attention on lost jobs and drooping sales.
From 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., I do updates. It’s dull work, but I’m grateful [...]

Reinterpreting Wardens Farm

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

Wardens Farm is a new client with an existing web site – what we call “takeover sites.” Built in Front Page 5.0, it was my responsibility to reinterpret their old site into something a little more palatable. I was instructed to keep the color palette the same and “clean up” the design. Here you can [...]