a different kind of development with an attitude
After the completion and upload of recent changes the client requested, I realised it might be a wiser choice to skip all the hassles of creating html pages from scratch and implement everything in a CMS.
Mind you, the site was small, 6 pages including the index and the newly requested “news section”. Still I thought it would be fun to see where this would get me and how long it would take.
Since I had experience with WordPress having hacked together a major site using it and converted a design to a WordPress template. I figured it shouldn’t be that difficult.
Updated: Main site has been moved to the WordPress version.
Posted in Clients, Me, Method, WKWSCI, devlog, thoughts · November 4th, 2008 · Comments (0)
The Asia Journalism Foundation site for NTU’s Wee Kim Wee School of Communications and Information has actually been launched.
Links from the main homepage are now actively pointing towards the domain. NTU also has a media release about the programme.
I think I’ve come a long way from doing small SME sites to something that is of a more official tone.
Posted in WKWSCI · October 21st, 2008 · Comments (0)
Design to WordPress template conversion of Benjamin Koe.
Possible long term contract work with a friend who’s starting an events company.
Its really when you are most busy that the projects do come in. Clients page has been updated.
Posted in Clients · September 25th, 2008 · Comments (0)
Just a short update. Two incoming projects, one new, one procrastinated on due to the horrible liason the company had, its gonna be all better now that I’m liasing directly with the stakeholders themselves.
So for now, I’m busy working on something for NTU’s Wee Kim Wee School of Communications and Information as well as U-Save’s inventory management and invoicing system.
Posted in Clients · September 16th, 2008 · Comments (0)
Started this to consolidate all the plugins written for ASI for sharing with the community. All are GPL and am hoping to push it up to WordPress Extend.
For now, I’m happy to say that ASI’s almost done. Exciting times.
Just wishing now there is some FOSS app that will automatically trawl a SVN repo and generate project pages for general public consumption out there with download links, info, descriptions and what not.
Tags: asi, development, plugins, site, wordpress
Posted in ASI, Method, Server, devlog · July 15th, 2008 · Comments (0)
After almost 2 weeks of intensive development, ASI’s web presence is almost done. Right at this point in time, there leaves just one last milestone, the development of the Products section. It has been a most interesting journey, most of which were spent refamiliarising myself with web development as well as Wordpress development.
Tags: asi, development, stats, web, work
Posted in ASI, Clients, devlog · July 14th, 2008 · Comments (0)
This is the first time I’m using subversion in managing the development of the design for a client.
Since the project deals with lots of code (XHTML/CSS/PHP) for the development of their site in Wordpress based upon a CMS idea, I’ve setup a Subversion repository to store code updates to the design as well as a plugin I wrote just for the project.
Having a revision control system helps a lot with devleopment as I can roll back changes. However the most fun part is deploying work. Its either an svn co or svn export to get the latest repository changes.
So far, its been a good thing getting it standards compliant. IE7, Firefox, Safari and Opera sees everything more or less the same.
Posted in ASI, Clients, Method, devlog · July 10th, 2008 · Comments (0)