mindgraffiti

I find that rebuild projects often focus on the negative: what needs redone and what needs improvement. What I often fail to communicate is why I am excited about projects like this to begin with: because the site has a lot of potential! So before I discuss any more of the improvements I would like [...]

Nothing new happening at work, so I have been focusing on freelance projects to help keep me sharp. The local St. Joseph Parents as Teachers is a group I find relevant and worthwhile, so I’ve volunteered my skills to revamp their website.
The First Step
Research. Who owns the parent site? St. Joseph School District. What technology [...]

Some of our long-awaited projects have been released, so I thought I would make note of them. Web Services now has a respectable web site to represent our department. Now that Creative Media and our department’s sites have launched, I wonder when we will be working on one for Special Services?
Our parent company has launched [...]

Flex Research
Rich Internet Applications are popping up all over the web. When I first saw them, I thought, “I want to do that too!” I started from level 0 when learning how to use Flex and Flash Media Server to build RIAs, and I had a lot of questions:

What is Flex?
What makes the Flash Media [...]

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 [...]