Boissevain Library Site Design

I’ve been approached by Brad Peters to create a new design for the Boissevain & Morton Regional Library. At the moment, I have a few ideas on what I’m going to do, and a few ideas that I think are going to take some convincing. :)

At the moment, they do not have a site up and running. That wasn’t the case up until a few months ago, when the Boissevain site was taken under new management and all of the old content dumped. (**shudder**, I know)

Anywho, the plan is to create them a new one, with a clean design that something like WordPress could be shoehorned into for maintenance. I would like to do something in the way of having a little “Flash” on the site, to keep things moving a little bit. Nothing over-exubberant, but something querky.

Regardless; at the moment, the designing is underway.

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Services Page

At the moment, I am debating whether or not I should set up a ‘Services’ page to detail some of the services that I have to offer.

I have been talking to a few people who have little to no idea of what it is that I do, and who have visited my site, and most of the questions I get about it are detailing what I am able to do in regards to websites, etc.

Now, I realize that a number of people who might happen by are going to know what they’re talking about and looking for; but I also believe that a huge number of potential clients out there aren’t going to know all of the details of what they’re going to need for a website, and what they would be able to get me to do.

I am not sure, as yet, how I will work this page into my site, but I think that I will end up posting one.

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Portfolio Splash

I’ve added the Portfolio Splash section to the main page, both to spice things up there as well as to draw attention to that section of my site. My intention is to have it set up that each day a different ’splash’ is selected from my portfolio and placed up there. That way the content will stay relatively ‘fresh’ and keep things from getting stale as it were.

At present I don’t have the updating function written or installed, due to time constraints, and a need for attention elsewhere on my site. However, within the next couple of weeks, I plan to be putting a little bit more time into my portfolio and its content, and I would expect to see that upgrade come along with that.

My idea is fairly simple: the Portfolio Splash section will either be a php include file that gets swapped out daily with one of a number of pre-prepared ’splash files’, or it will be a database-driven thing, with a flag set on the item that is being shown that day.

I am leaning more towards the former idea than the latter, as it will lend itself more towards keeping database-traffic (and thus site load time) down, as well, it will require less setup. (I’ll only have to put the changing script in place and develop the files as opposed to having to write an interface for it in the control panel, or hacking it into WordPress.)

At any rate, stay tuned! More, greater, and newer things are coming to this little corner of the web, courtesy of yours truly. :)

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Welcome Page Addition

It has ocurred to me recently that the main (Welcome) page doesn’t really support the blog loop in terms that it lets any new visitors know that there’s stuff happening in the ‘Site Blog’ section of the website. Thus, I am thinking that I ought to do something about that.

My thought is that I shall randomly pull a (recent to semi-recent) blog entry from the blog and post an excerpt from it on the front page. (And for recurring users, I might post a “There have been 4 new blog entries since you were last here” notice.)

It’s a thought, and a hack worth investigating.

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