Sorry about the layoff in posts

Posted: May 20, 2008

I’ve been inundated with work lately, not to mention I’ve been having some problems with the site. Everything is resolved now though.

What I have been up to:

  • CookingMatt.com: I have been working on this cooking blog for the last few days. While I have been wanting to do something like this for a while, it was my CMS, Data and APIs class I am taking this summer that has given me the initiative. I am trying out a new CMS, Textpattern, which UF’s College of Journalism and Communications has been using for some time. Right now the site is just a home page with no real navigation. Some people don’t like showing the building process for these sorts of things, but I don’t mind, especially considering that this is just a learning process—academic and life-style.
  • Working at Web Admin: Same ol’, same ol’ around here. I’m working here about 20 hours a week for the first half of the summer. Starting in the second half I will be transitioning to full-time. That process should be complete by the time I graduate in August. I’ve been fixing up the university’s Office of Information Technology Web site. That has been interesting but tedious. I’m just making it semantic and what not, removing the presentational code, tweaking XHTML and CSS and making it comply, for the most part, with Web standards. I’ve also written a couple of articles on writing for the Web and a new phone book application put out by my office for the university. I’ll link those once they’ve gone up. They’re a cross between a press release and a regular article.
  • Biting my nails as budget cuts slowly ruin my precious university.
  • Online media at The Alligator: Not much going on here yet, putting in about 10 hours a week. I’m just having late nights putting content on the site, brainstorming and just hanging around the newsroom. We haven’t gotten to any real multimedia yet this summer, but it’s coming! We’ve got a project on our hands that we hope to get out by mid June—lots of video and lots of getting to know the community. It should be fun. An explanation will be its own post later.


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