Monday, March 26, 2001
Web Site Work/Review Computer Books
Spent the day doing work on the PanelX Web site, which is something of a change for me these days, as I've spent much of my time working on the new Digital View Web site. Today, I was asked to come up with some ad banners and do the layout for a couple of ad pages. In so doing, I got praise from a professional graphics designer who was overseeing the work on behalf of one of the companies, which really made my day (especially since I don't really consider myself much of a graphic artist). I really love doing this work -- it's interesting, involves so many variables, and is ultimately very creative. I ended up starting work on the draft proposal for the Inner Directions Web site. Lots of scanning of images, looking through their pamphlets, and more that a bit of information architecture. Did I say I love my work? ;-) At lunchtime I went to The Computer Paper offices downtown to pick up a fresh load of computer books that were waiting there for me to review. Quite the collection of titles: Windows 2000 Quick Fixes, HTML: A Beginner's Guide, How to Do Everything with Your Digital Camera, Genealogy Online 5th Edition, Canadian Internet Directory and Research Guide 2001, Writing for the Web and Learning XML. Quite an interesting selection, and for once it actually contained a few titles I had asked for. On the way back while riding in the subway, I pulled out Genealogy Online 5th Edition, and the first thing I noticed in this supposedly freshly updated edition was a reference to using Prodigy -- not the re-invented Web service, but the original, pre-Web, circa early 90s version. Hmmmm. Glancing through it, I wondered just how much of this has been really, revamped. Mind you, a first glance does not always tell me the whole story, so will give it a fair shake.
Spent the day doing work on the PanelX Web site, which is something of a change for me these days, as I've spent much of my time working on the new Digital View Web site. Today, I was asked to come up with some ad banners and do the layout for a couple of ad pages. In so doing, I got praise from a professional graphics designer who was overseeing the work on behalf of one of the companies, which really made my day (especially since I don't really consider myself much of a graphic artist). I really love doing this work -- it's interesting, involves so many variables, and is ultimately very creative. I ended up starting work on the draft proposal for the Inner Directions Web site. Lots of scanning of images, looking through their pamphlets, and more that a bit of information architecture. Did I say I love my work? ;-) At lunchtime I went to The Computer Paper offices downtown to pick up a fresh load of computer books that were waiting there for me to review. Quite the collection of titles: Windows 2000 Quick Fixes, HTML: A Beginner's Guide, How to Do Everything with Your Digital Camera, Genealogy Online 5th Edition, Canadian Internet Directory and Research Guide 2001, Writing for the Web and Learning XML. Quite an interesting selection, and for once it actually contained a few titles I had asked for. On the way back while riding in the subway, I pulled out Genealogy Online 5th Edition, and the first thing I noticed in this supposedly freshly updated edition was a reference to using Prodigy -- not the re-invented Web service, but the original, pre-Web, circa early 90s version. Hmmmm. Glancing through it, I wondered just how much of this has been really, revamped. Mind you, a first glance does not always tell me the whole story, so will give it a fair shake.
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