Monthly Archives: September 2002

While clicking away with no particular place to go, I ended up at the SRH corporate site. Not entirely sure how I got there, but I wasn’t really surprized to find a whole new site had replaced the one I created in December 1999.

Of course, that’s unremarkable – at least, not as remarkable as the fact that it took them so long to replace it. However, it had been the last online site that I created. Since leaving SRH in March 2000, I have not had one single online project that I created from the ground up.

All I’ve done for the last two years or so is intranets. Intranets and more intranets. Big ones, small ones, some medium sized ones too. But every single one of them is locked away behind a company firewall – hidden from the public view. With some of them that’s probably just as well, but with a couple I’m quite proud of the fact I put them together. Sadly, all I have to remind me of the effort is a screen grab in a few cases.

That leaves WipeoutZone and this place as the only fragments of evidence left in cyberspace that I create websites. And you know – I used to be a contender… oh yes – 17 sites on the go for SRH at one point – every one of them created by me and every one of them live and open to public scrutiny.

Sometimes I miss living on the edge ;o)

I’ve been trying out a new design here. Thought I’d darken it down for the coming winter months. Still tinkering with it, so I’m not sure when I’ll make it go live.

Oh, and rest in peace Sable.

Woohoo!

Today the second phase of the intranet for work went live. The last three months or so have been a bit of a slog, truth be told – and it’s been in limbo for three weeks while the design was tinkered with.

At least that one is knocked on the head, just about – now I have to press on with another intranet for another part of the company. Looking forward to this one – although I’ll re-use a lot of code and the techniques I used, it’s great to start on a clean slate and attack something that at least seems new.

To be honest, if it wasn’t for this new project starting straight away I would really have liked to take a few days off. I’m feeling a bit burned out and I just want to swing my thing for a bit – learn a few things and get round to projects like The Feel Good Factory (which has been pending for a year now).

At the end of next week I have my first ever php training course, courtesy of the company, which is pretty groovy. Hopefully it’ll tighten me up in a couple of areas and open my eyes to a few new things along the way.