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Another day, another website

March 4th, 2009 · Posted by Skuds in Politics/Work · No Comments · Politics, Work

Lots of new websites on the go at the moment, which only partly explains the lack of activity on this one.First of all there is my department’s intranet website at work.  I have redesigned it all with a much clearer and stronger identity, using stylesheets and templates to enforce that identity.  There are more images, more colours, and the content has been made more focussed.  It goes live next week, but the old site has a link to the new one this week as a sort of sneak preview.

So far the reception has been quite good.  Already I have had one other department ask if we can help them re-do theirs, and somebody outside our division has asked if he can steal the design for his site with a view to encouraging it to be used for some more corporate-level sites.

Obviously I am chuffed that all this positive attention is coming along mere weeks after my annual performance appraisal…  management now have a whole eleven months to forget about this before the next annual appraisal.

I have also done a template for a Horsham Labour website and put some placeholder text in it.  Just have to train up some of the party officers so they can put some real content in there and then we can launch it.

The third new venture is one that I didn’t have a hand in designing at all, which is probably why it looks so much better than the other two.  I am a mere contributor, not that I have really started contributing yet, but then the site is not fully launched yet.  Its still in a sort of beta phase.

It is a group blog called Common Endeavour and as the name suggests it is a Labour-leaning group effort.  The other contributors at the moment include Paul from Never Trust A Hippy, Sadie from Sadie’s Tavern,  Andreas Paterson,  Olly Onions, and others – with support from Andrew of Bloggers4Labour and Damian (AKA Pootergeek).  With all those and other illustrious figures from the left-wing blogging scene (like Tom Freeman of Freemania and the mighty Hopi Sen of A Blog From The Back Room) all chipping in two thoughts occur to me:

  1. What a great team.  This should be a good site to keep an eye on.
  2. What the hell do they want me for?

I hope the answer to the second point is that they spotted some potential in my writing that I have not suspected, although its possibly the result of meeting up with Damian, Paul, Andrew and some others over some beers in the past.

I’ll certainly have to raise my game a bit to keep up.  I suspect my more overtly political posts will end up on Common Endeavour, leaving this personal site free for more rambling about prog rock, the trials and tribulations of West Ham, and things of more limited, local interest.

So far the strangest thing is using WordPress where I am not an administrator but just an author.  I just can’t get used to seeing that menu with so few options on it.

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