Number Three
Posted: Wed 5 September, 2007 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Work-related | Leave a comment »Today we’ve launched the third work-based website in a week.
The main company site got launched last Wednesday, and then there’ve been two micro-site things between then and now as well. Oh, and work on a Welsh-language microsite too, which should be up by this time next week.
And then people wonder why my brain’s completely fried by the time I get home of an evening…
Still, it’s not bad on a productivity note.
Braindead
Posted: Tue 4 September, 2007 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Cynicism, Travel, Work-related | Leave a comment »Over the last six weeks or so, I’ve been driving from home to work on pretty much a daily basis. It’s given me a lot more freedom time-wise, particularly while we’ve been in the time crunch of heavy workloads while preparing for the site launch and so on.
Since we launched the main site last week, I was supposed to be going back to using the train. I even picked up my season-ticket pass thing.
And then I got halfway to work, hit a traffic jam on the poxy single-carriageway bit of the A11 (which I’ve written about several times before) and thought:
“Bollocks. I was going to get the train.”
The joys of mental autopilot…
Live
Posted: Wed 29 August, 2007 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Work-related | Leave a comment »Yes, yes, at last, the updated and redesigned site at work is live.
Halle-fucking-lujah.
Vindicated
Posted: Wed 29 August, 2007 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Charm School, Cynicism, Work-related | 2 Comments »Is it wrong to feel slightly smug?
Over the last six weeks, things have been going mental with the site redesign at work, and lots of hours have been put in. The preceding three months have involved me doing a lot of work on the back-end of the site, while others have been faffing with design, wireframes, ideas, and the like. One person in particular has been doing sod-all, but making out they’re the centre of all the work.
In the last six weeks, they’ve been banging on about how all their stuff is done – but it hasn’t been checked in to the version control system, so no-one else has been able to see what they’ve done. And during that time, all my work – and all the work that the other people on the team – has been checked in, visible to all, tested, and done way ahead of deadline. And all the way through, I’ve been saying that the person hasn’t done what they’ve said, and that things will go horribly wrong – each time to be told by others that I’m too cynical, that of course they’ve done what they said, and blah, blah, blah.
So on Friday and today, the day before everything goes live, they’ve been complaining that things ‘suddenly’ don’t work, and it’s turned out that the relevant sections done by this one person have gone horribly wrong, and aren’t actually anywhere even close to completed. In fact, it’s being questioned whether any valid work at all has been done. Everything has turned into a last-minute panic for those sections, and the person has been working all weekend to complete them – as well as working ’til very late tonight.
And it’s been acknowledged that actually, my cynicism was accurate.
So yes, I feel slightly smug. And really rather vindicated. It’s a good feeling.
One week
Posted: Wed 22 August, 2007 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Own Business, Work-related | Leave a comment »In seven days, the site I’ve been working on solidly for the last six months finally goes live.
I can’t wait.
Yes, I’ve been in the contract for (coming up) a year, but for the first half of that I was primarily doing a lot of maintenance and updating on the current site, and keeping that all running nicely. Since about March I’ve been working on the design and underlying structure of the redesigned site – while also still maintaining the current site in parallel with the new one.
It’s been one chuff of a struggle, “helped” by a deeply indecisive business and a web team who can’t write HTML without Dreamweaver, but we’re so nearly there. It’ll be good when we’re finally done, though.
I’ll probably write more about this when I have two brain-cells to rub together. Maybe next Thursday.
Email signoff
Posted: Tue 21 August, 2007 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Thoughts, Weirdness, Work-related | 1 Comment »Over the last couple of years, I’ve developed a little habit with email signoffs – and I don’t know if it’s annoying, or just something idiosyncratic that only I do. I’ve certainly never come across anyone else who does it, anyway.
Basically, it comes down to the fact that I sign off most of my emails – well, the ones that aren’t going to clients and/or agencies, anyway – with just “Me.”. After all, the email already says at the top who it’s from, so why repeat it?
Thinking about it, I do the same most of the time with text messages, too.
So – is it annoying? Or is it just another way of identifying that I wrote it, and thus much the same as any other form of email signoff/signature? I’ve not found anyone else in any of the places I’ve worked who does the same thing, so it’s a fairly distinctive signoff. Does anyone else know anyone who signs off mails in the same way?
HTML 5
Posted: Thu 9 August, 2007 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Geeky, Work-related | 1 Comment »Ooooh, new stuff in HTML 5 – looks like it could be interesting when it finally gets released…