Last weekend I was thinking a lot about the various tasks that needed tracking as part of the Agenceum project load. It had gotten to the point where I was starting to worry if I was forgetting something, and it also seemed that I needed to formalize some processes. The idea of making a map of [...]
I visited five different locations to work today: home, Starbucks, Ashish’s office, Bonhoeffer’s (a local coffee shop), and Sid’s studio (with no Internet). So I’m just getting to the Staff Meeting report. Current Business I’m getting close to finishing two of the projects, now that final content is in. What is interesting is that every [...]
After posting about my desire for a Simple Website System several readers have offered solutions; either helping to develop such a system itself for the challenge (and potential revenue), or pointing out solutions like Unify, CushyCMS, and Perch. CushyCMS and Unify are close to the simple solution I’m looking for, featuring in-context editing, simple tagging [...]
I was about to implement a simple ModX-based website when it occurred to me that it didn’t really make things easier for me. While it does, theoretically, make it easier for clients to edit their content, it means that I have to now worry about deploying ModX on a foreign server. This is not difficult, [...]
So, what do you do when you need to write code that uses PHP, Apache, and MySQL all on the same computer? The simple answer is to install them using a WAMP or MAMP package. However, this approach has a few drawbacks: You end up with a jumble of server applications running on your computer [...]
Another late Tuesday update! I’ve spent most of the day installing a stand-alone web server environment on my laptop so I can actually work at Sid’s photo studio, where I share space a couple of days out of each week. The only problem with the studio is that there’s NO INTERNET ACCESS, which makes developing [...]
Today I did the first integration from an existing shell template. The final copy and images have not yet been delivered, so I haven’t set any text or background colors, but the template-based site is in place. Setting up the development environment took about 10 minutes. The steps: Set up staging server on davidseah.com (probably [...]
One of the Agenceum clients had a cool swirly glass sculpture that she likes a lot, so we tried turning it into a logo! She uploaded some photos of it, and I traced it with the last released version of Macromedia Freehand (circa 2004) instead of Adobe Illustrator CS4 (circa 2009). Why? Because I saw [...]
This week is largely a catch-up production week, so there hasn’t been much in advancing in terms of template building and documentation. The content and images are largely in from the first round of clients; now it’s a matter of making it as easy as possible to populate the existing templates and posting them somewhere. [...]
Via the Smashing Magazine Twitter Feed, I came across this list of 10 Absolute “Nos!” for Freelancers. It is a good summary of the common wisdom that pervades the experienced freelancer’s mindset: client requests to which you must say no if you want to maintain any sense of sanity. What’s particularly interesting is that there [...]
