Typocracy.net

We aren’t picking on you. Really. But when considering a designer and/or developer for your project, it’s important to have some things figured out first.
I came across a post this morning that, in a joking way, is a good example. Written by Neil Middleton, it takes the all-too usual software building experiences and applies them to architecture. What if the same considerations expected of us by clients were dictated to someone building a new house? It’d be a mess, really.

http://blog.monochrome.co.uk/2009/02/if-architects-had-to-work-like-software-developers/

Ready Cab screen shot

Several months ago, I completed a new site for one of the most trusted names in Louisville transportation – Ready Cab. Their new site has a CMS system so they can keep the site up to date, has a Flight Checker so you can see if flights are on time, and you can even place a cab reservation on their site.

Check out their site at readycab.com

Louisville Urban League (Live site)

Louisville Urban League – built on Joomla. This is one of the first Joomla sites that I’ve been able to see from start to finish using the system. I help maintain a number of other sites built on Joomla, and while I’ve upgraded and added on to those sites, I didn’t create the original versions. So this project was a really good chance to get into the nitty gritty of putting a Joomla installation to work. I even got it to validate (CSS 2/XHTML 1.0). Unfortunately, as tends to happen with CMS sites, I’m sure it won’t validate forever once a lot of new content is added, but that’s OK.

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Right now I’m working on doing a PHP blog which Louisville Web Group will likely use for smaller sites that don’t need WordPress or a full CMS. After that, I’m going to do some tutorials and (hopefully) end up with a Ruby on Rails blog as well as a Ruby-based Twitter clone.

After that? Hopefully I’ll be able to finally write the Shows/Event app for Louisville Hardcore.com that I’ve been wanting to do forever. I need to have it read the user tables from the forums, and then allow those users to post information to a separate database that will archive shows/events after the indicated time for each one. Not hard in theory, but it’s something new to try.

I guess once all of that is done, I’ll try to come up with a new design for this site… yeah, right. Thank you pre-fab wordpress designs!