Let me preface this blog by saying while in some places this may sound like I’m griping, I can assure you all that I am not and in fact I love every minute of working on the Phoenix Projects website (http://phoenixprojects.org) it’s just that in text format it may seem this way but in vocal format you would know. Please do not think I am b*tching about my job because I in all seriousness love every minute of it.
Ah the trials and tribulations of being a web designer for a community. I just realized that I have spent a total of around seven hours sitting on my couch doing various things to improve the Phoenix Projects website, and it seems like only one hour. The funniest thing is the public won’t even see ninety nine percent of the stuff I worked on today yet.
I started the day out by going through the pictures on the FPG website from Beltaine looking for pictures that were only of members of the Phoenix Projects and all I can say is wow there was a lot of pics to go through, and a lot of stuff I missed while there. I think next time I go I’ll have to go to more things and be more active as opposed to sticking around the campsite or trying to do homework. Anyhow back to what I was talking about before I got sidetracked. One of things that amazed me while looking through the pictures was the fact that in the pictures of the Celtic games, where the Phoenix Projects’ Realms Fighters kicked some serious buttocks (once again congrats), most of the pictures were of one person granted that person is one of our fighters but still it seems a little unfair to the other fighters (no disrespect towards him as he is someone I consider a good friend). Oh well anyhow I found a lot of good pictures even some interesting ones, let’s just say (to paraphrase a great comedian) Hot dog on a Steek. I can’t wait to post them along with all the other pictures I have ranging from when the great Raymond Buckland came to visit to pictures of two of our clean ups. Another thing I have learned is that it’s hard to find open source faery pictures that are family friendly.
Although some of the other things I did for the site was trying to figure out Dreamweaver so that I can make some cool changes to the site. Well as I was going through I noticed some changes that needed to be done to our Midsummers page of events (for more info check http://www.phoenixprojects.org/midsummer09.html )that if it weren’t for the Hobbit telling me I may not have known. However that’s one of the things I don’t mind, as long as I’m told things before it’s too late. Although one of the things about doing the site that does get to me is when instead of sending me an e-mail when something on the site is wrong people tend to tell other people that have very little to do with the site what’s wrong with the website, and then I have to hear it from them. This to me is the equivalent of someone finding something wrong with my work and instead of telling me they tell my boss, my boss then has to tell me, and no one likes hearing from their boss when they messed up.
Although before anyone decides to visit the site let me just warn you that it may look a little rough around the edges but like I said I’m in the process of doing a redesign and had to change some codes that affect the whole site but within the next few days maybe even tomorrow the entire site will be revamped.
Random Bachelor Dare Card of the Day: “Tell a babe you really need her support— ask her to donate her bra, then wear it over your man-boobs.”
Wow you know the sad thing is I could see some of my friends doing that dare with no problem.
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