Final Week

Well, I will be doing a re-cap here of what all of this sabbatical ("sabbobical") was all about for me, but in the interim while you wait to see that, check out the work:

aifreelance.com

Weeks 11 & 12

I am doing a compilation summary of the past two weeks, including the holiday.  Steve R and I have been working very hard on the website and we know that there is much more to do.  I have started a final "scrub list" of the site and on first pass we had 55 open items to attend to.  Will this ever end?

On the one hand my sabbatical was great.  I can't say that I enjoyed the time as it was and still is alot of work, but it has given me a renewed look at many aspects of what I do in the classroom and as a consultant out in the world.

There are soooooooo many logistical things that happen between a developer and a client that never truly get discussed in the classroom that I am now going to be able to bring in for discussion.

Some things to look forward to for further website development:

1. We will be getting new and better photography from an unexpected source
2. We are looking at the "information architecture" trying to decide if chronological is better than alphabetical
3. The "permissions" nightmare is s-l-o-w-l-y resolving itself
4. The transition of responsibility from the development team to the client will be slower than we expected
5. And Joomla! was a great choice for learning a content management system --- Steve R has gone above and beyond the call of duty to find amazing plug-ins and add-ons that are making the development process tres facile!

Check it out: aifreelance.com