From Ashley Friedlein’s Web Project Management:
These are the most basic areas of responsibility needed for a web project. I will be taking on all of these roles, with the help of texts and research for in order to produce this site.
Only took a year, but now there is one less scare div in my face all the time.
I have had Web Project Management by Ashley Friedlein for a few months and have dove into it various times but have not been able to go too deeply into the text or put much into practice. Now, I will use it as a framework to manage production on this site. I will supplement the text with other materials as needed. After all, this book is written from a manager’s perspective, and does not include the technical information needed for design or development.
Other projects
General idea collection post for the next iteration of this site:
I created the framework of this site in wordpress for a couple of reasons. My company had recently developed a couple of sites using WP in order to speed development time to meet crazy deadlines. I had hacked my way through a couple of these for various changes and felt I had a handle on WP as a framework. Additionally, WP does a good job with content management. I have quite a bit more experience with Drupal, but greatly prefer WP’s CMS characteristics.
I don’t “know” PHP, but again, had leveraged my minimal Python/Perl/HTML/CSS knowledge to hack my way through the PHP on a couple of sites and felt that I could use this site as a platform to increase my PHP skills. I built a lot of custom functionality and accomplished my goal.
However, I never really finished the design, and thus development. I rushed to get a skeleton in place to give me a platform for putting in content with the intent of finishing later. The former happened, for a while; the latter did not.
So I am starting from scratch. Really this site was meant to be a pet project to teach me the entire process of web design (conception, design, development, content creation, etc). I still have that goal. Having to renew the domain name was a trigger to pick this goal up again and attempt to cross the finish line. However, I know have a longer term goal of using this site as a continuing means to hone my web project management skills and as a career development too.
This post originally appeared on the Manning Productions blog.
I like that our agency has a variety of clients. Some are big, some small. They come from different industries. Each client contact has a different job description. That variety helps keep our work fresh. But it also allows us to see how smart our clients are, each in their own ways. They know their business, customers and business goals like the back of their hands. The reason they hire us is because they value what we do, and what we do falls outside of their areas of expertise. I would like to think that we do a good job of forming partnerships with our clients, to become the means to extend their brand, their presence and their business goals to exciting new markets. I hope that we help them articulate their frustrations and aspirations to find unique and successful solutions for them. I hope this is the case, because the alternative scares the hell out of me.
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This post originally appeared on the Manning Productions blog.
Curtis asked me to write about the “big crunch/big bang” of digital content distribution. I think this is a wonderful topic, but not something I can address at the moment. I would like to do a fair bit of research and reflection before tackling the subject. In the meantime, here is something completely unrelated. A couple of weeks ago I swear I saw a post in the NASA twitter feed that contained a nasa.gov branded shortened URL. I have combed the hundreds of posts from that time period but can’t seem to find it; perhaps I imagined it. Maybe I am crazy… like a fox. Read More
This post originally appeared on the Manning Productions blog.
As it should be obvious by now, I am Manning’s productivity nerd. I am a lay member of the cult of Getting Things Done. I wanted to offer up a brief observation from my day-to-day work. Like the GTD project planning model, the GTD system consists of five discrete steps:
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