2 Web Sites Launch
I know its been a little bit since I have posted. I have been pretty busy with the holiday weekend and then my girlfriends grandmother passed away and we had to make an unexpected trip to Tennessee. Meanwhile I was trying to launch a couple sites, so yeah its been a little busy for me.
The first site that launched was University of Michigan’s, Life Sciences Institute. Pretty well known gig for me huh? I was responsible for the XHTML/CSS templates, then handed it over to the people at QLTD, which implemented a Drupal CMS so the faculty and labs can update their own part of the site. I can’t say that I was too impressed with what Drupal does to the code of the templates. It adds a lot of unnecessary tags and seems to be pretty messy when doing it. I had to hide all kinds of H2’s and line break tags that it inserts. None the less its the best Open Source CMS out there for this type of stuff so what you going to do.
The next site that launched tonight actually, is The Chenille Sisters website redesign. This was a great little site for me to work on and I actually got to do all the developing myself and not just the templates so yeah, everything is as perfect as I could get it within the budget of course. I had the great chance to work with a great designer Andrea Cardinal on this project This is the site that I was using the jQuery library for some cool functionality. I did all the XHTML/CSS, Javascript and PHP on this site. Thanks to my friends over at Inner Circle Media, I have became pretty good with PHP lately and have a pretty cool technique for Templates. The next site I will be posting will use PHP and XML to create all the navigation, Titles, and anything else I want. This site didn’t really need all that and plus it wasn’t in the budget.
Anyways expect another cool site to launch in the next couple weeks. Until then I hope I get some time to blog a little more.