Musings and miscellaneous ramblings into the web development business, graphic design, technology, and things that interest me.
So much of my work is visual, and the work section of this website is designed for that. It is challenging to showcase my custom programming projects. I have yet to find a good way to do it, that makes sense with the design work. I have dozens of projects that I would like to present here but so far have not been able to. How would you do it?
I have considered having a second portfolio, with the programming projects, but am not sure if that is the best solution. I am probably making this more difficult than it needs to be. One thing I want to avoid is coming off like there are two different websites and focuses. I do both, graphic design, and programming. It’s rare enough I suppose, but I have yet to see a good example of a website showcasing both.
At my previous employer we did not have a very good record of existing clients, domains, and their hosting packages. We also did not really have a solid hosting platform, no disaster recovery, or solid backups. We were very new and very fresh and very, very reactive. Then a terrible thing happened with our hosting, and with no legit recovery system we were forced to migrate dozens of websites by hand. Seeing an opportunity to not only improve our backup/recovery process, but to develop a very solid database of clients, domains, and hosting packages, we quickly threw together a MySQL database and interface to store the information. This system became the backbone of the company, evolving into a domain expiration reporting tool, automatic web reports generation tool, client management with call/email/issue logging, several misc handy utilities, daily email reports, all neatly tied into the companies Exchange server for user authentication. Needless to say, the code was a mess, but it did it’s job.
Recently launched a few websites.
My personal website, an art blog. Featuring sketches, drawings, paintings, etc, just stuff I have been working on and playing with. Ideally there will be new work each daily, but that depends on how often I can actually update.
Redesign of Merchant Department’s website. Their company has seen increased growth and a change in focus, and needed a website that reflected that. To help reach a wider audience and connect with their existing customer base, we are taking advantage of the websites news and blog RSS feeds to push data to Twitter and Facebook.
Redesign of Residential Life, Housing, and Food Services @UNR.
See them here: http://roylindauer.com/work/
I was shocked to discover that there was no way to not sure future entries with the CMSMS News Module unless I used the expiration settings. I did not want to expire news articles, I only want to be able to publish articles in the future and not to display them until their publish date.