This is a second casted blog post– the first nicely composed, well crafted, punctually perfect one gotten eaten as the wireless network of this hotel decided it did not want to post. It’s not letting up upload photos to flickr, and I left it on “publish” when I hit the sack at 3:00 AM. Okay, […]
Crank up the Indy Junior map, I’m on the way for a 3 legged trip this week; today from Phoenix to Atlanta for the EDUCAUSE ELI Annual conference, one of my recent favorite events to attend for the caliber of folks who go, quality of program, etc. Sadly, due to the scheduling gods/demons, I get […]
This has nothing to do with new year resolves to live more organized (if that were the case I might be making lists and crossing things off), but I’ve been pleased to de-clutterize my home office, and, at the same time, make it easier to hook more gizmos to my laptop. First was getting a […]
Today there was a glut of comments in my Google Reader subscription for What Can You Do With flickr? part of the session I did in October for the K12 Online Conference, so being always in need of some ego brushes, it was pretty cool to get a long string of them — did someone […]
Hang on to your full content news feeds, this post might be a long one. I hope to try and document the under the hood as well as some of the exterior chrome work on a new site NMC just unveiled this week. This is as much for my records as anything.
But first, start with the demo, the final piece. The new site is for NMC Virtual Worlds, our new arm that provides consulting and buolding expertise in Virtual Worlds, right now focused n (but not forever) Second Life. Take a peek first at http://virtualworlds.nmc.org/ which looks almost like:
if you reload the front page, the banners as well as the case study in the lower right will change. The banner rotation is easy, something I’ve already put into the other WP power site, the NMC Campus Observer.
The needs for the site were provided rather simply as a Word document, with 6 of the present 7 major tabs. It was presented as primarily static content, but they left me room to dynamic it up, toss in some randomized aspects as well as use syndicated content. Actually, they left most of the decisions up to me, and someone else took care of the text writing (they know of my poor typing skills). I envisioned having some regularly published “news” via the blog page type, but most of the content would be static (or semi-static) WordPress “Pages” (capital P). I was also provided a logo, which gives some direction on important colors.
So the first step was looking for a template to use as a starting point.
My infatuation with Microsoft Windows is documented, and may not have changed much, but I can say I am liking very much so far the flexibility, and slick connectedness of Parallels Desktop for Mac running on my MacBookPro. This morning I gave Bootcamp the boot. Goodbye. Go back to basic training, as the new solider […]
Just to show that any dog can click on random options of a web form: Which Programming Language are You? Yup, the only Java programming I have ever seen is by sheer accident. A fun diversion, and a linktribution to Scott Wilson.
Faux Ocotillo Resurrectedavailable on flickr When I left Maricopa last April, my colleague David Weaver gave me this plant as a stand in for an Ocotillo (a project I supported for like 10 years). I am not a good plant caretaker, and with a little bit of in-attention, this plant lost most its leaves a […]
Yet another instance where an attempt to use the Windows XP operating system has rendered it toast on the bottom side of my MacBookPro. Fortunately, I have a reliable OS on the front side. It’s bad enough that my latest web design effort includes 30% of the time developing and testing in a web standard […]
Remix of original cc-licensed flickr photo by crowulf Alas. my iPod Shuffle is gone, softly in the night. I’d noticed a few weeks ago that it refused to work in my car via my DLO Transpod FM transmitter, just blinked orange. Since it played music via my head phones, I thought it was the transpods […]
