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Huston-Tillotson University Athletic Web Site


2009
11.10

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I finally designed a web site for Huston-Tillotson University that I am prod of. It may be the last in-house web design that I will do for HT. Soon the site may be out-sourced to a development company. So this is why I did some screen shots for my blog.

HT Development Web Site

HT Development Web Site

The site is done using Dot Net Nuke. This is a skin design for DNN 5.3. I started using DNN when I first came to HT back in 2004. At the time the university was using version 2 so I have migrated and grown to love and hate DNN over the last 5 years. I have come to the conclusion that no content management system is fool proof and easy for the end user.

HT Athletic home page

HT Athletic home page

For the athletic home page I had the requirements to have two menus on the page. The athletic department wanted a set of images and menus to appear on all pages. This was the foundation of the site. The main page has static content that is updated rarely. The main page needed to show athletic department links on the left side of the page and the right side shows all of the sports divided by men and women categories.

HT Volleyball main page

HT Volleyball main page

The volleyball main page shows a typical sports site layout. In DNN I created each sport as a sub portal of the main athletics site. This allows for the administration to be managed efficiently but allows local administration to be owned by the head coach of each sport.

HT Athletics forms and lists

HT Athletics forms and lists

One of the nice improvements in DNN 5.2 is what use to be called User Defined Tables, Forms and Lists. You can create CSS styled lists or tables that can also be transformed into data entry forms. I love this feature but it is not easy for end users to configure and use.

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EOL CentOS Server build


2009
10.17

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I am building a CentOS 5.3 server. Here are my install notes and pictures. I started on Saturday October 17 at 5:00 PM.  Below is a screen shot of the RAID5 configuration.
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I love servers


2009
08.23

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Historical Rant

I imagine you have never met a guy like me. I am 57 years old and I grew up as a hippie artist in San Diego. I got involved with computers in the early 1980s in Los Angeles because I wanted to do computer aided design using 3-D mechanical design software. Well, I got side tracked into server administration and database administration and I love it. I found that my brain actually relaxes when I am working on servers and solving problems. I am an IT manager’s dream and a family’s worst nightmare. I treat servers and their data like children, they are never an after thought they are my priority. I do not write very well or speak very well to some folks.

Sarcastic Rant

I long for the day when we can read each other minds so I will not have to struggle with my inapt language skills to communicate. Wait, if folks read my mind will I be thinking like a fool to some folks? Oh well at least I will not be wearing out my 6 fingers typing on a keyboard.

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Long over due web development


2009
03.22

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I have been revising my web pages.  The Wormley Design has been re-designed.  I removed the Joomal site which only had one page.  Joomla is over kill for simple sites.  I use Joomla for clients that want to edit their site of for larger community sites.  I have developed a static page site for the Wormley Design site.  

I am putting some simple slide shows on the pages.  The slide shows are being developed in Adobe CS4 Encore. I have stayed away from Flash development on my web pages for some time.  I am getting into Flash development because more clients want it on their sites.  I am still focusing my efforts on W3C compliant pages that are simple and easy to read. Flash slide shows also remove the need to have a gallery or another page with a bunch of images for the casual web site visitor.

I’m going to finish up this weekend and add some slide shows of my artwork to the LauniArt site

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Mac or Windows, or just a computer to do a task.


2009
03.09

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Today I had my first work day with my MacBook Pro.  I am writing another Blog about my experience using Mac only tools.  The blog is called iMacFool. My department director and network administrator had a lot of fun with trying to figure out why I was using a Mac.  The department director is a Mac user and he scoffed at me using VMware Fusion to put my virtual machine of my old Windows laptop on my Mac.  The network administrator razzed me as a free thinker that does not process in a lineal fashion.

So in that moment I relized that what I had been waiting fo was truly in my hands.  I wanted to get a MacBook Pro not because I wanted to run the Mac OS only. I wanted a MacBook Pro because I believe Apple Computer has finally got it right, they have harnessed the Intel processor, good industrial design and BSD with the Apple brand.  I have been waiting to come back to a Mac for 10 years.  I ahve waited for a computer to truly keep up with me and do exactly what I want all on one piece of hardware. The MacBook Pro is such a computer.

So am I a Mac fanactic all of a sudden?  Will I start to bash Microsoft products?  No, I’ll do none of the fore mentioned.  I will continue to work with the tools that I choose and solve problems.  I can appreciate how Apple chose to allow a user like myself to run Microsoft software on Apple hardware.  In fact I installed Vista on this Mac and got all of the laptop drivers to work faster than ever before.

So from one desktop run MS Office, Adobe CS4 and PC-BSD.  I have hardware and software that is easy to use so all I have to worry about is creating content and solving problems.  I’m sure that in a year from now thee will be e lot of changes in the computer world. I kept my IBM A21P for over 6 years.  I can only hope that this MacBook Pro will keep me happy for halve that long.

This post will be copied to my iMacFool site even though it was written on my other personal blog Screws in my coffee.

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