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More New Work

22 February 2006
Filed under Code, Design, Folio, Text, The Interweb

The other new project I’ve launched this week is a website for local literary agency, Jenny Darling & Associates. I really enjoyed working on this project for a number of reasons, not least of which is that the company hired an editor to pull together the somewhat mind-boggling (for a site of this scope) amount of text and images required. So many projects I’ve worked on over the last few years have frustrated me or simply foundered because the client hasn’t the time or inclination to produce the actual crucial stuff of any website, which is CONTENT. I’m not blameless either - stewardship is a skill I’m learning gradually, and on several occasions I’ve allowed clients to go on thinking that ‘I’ll take care of it’ for longer than I should have.

Jenny Darling and Associates website screengrab

The other thing I’ve enjoyed about this gig has been building a CMS from scratch - one that’s not only usable, but actually addictive, according to feedback I’ve received. I built it with the now slightly old-fashioned PHP/MySQL combo-punch, and the site itself is templated using Smarty. I know I code like a four year-old - I’m not patient or single-minded or logical enough to achieve things cleanly or particularly efficiently, and code-monkeys would probably CRY to see my work - but I do find writing little applications like this extremely satisfying, and it makes an enormous difference to my clients to be able to work with something that’s designed specifically for them.

Views from the Floor

Steve says:

Nice job on the design. Very clean and efficient, thus allowing the reader to focus on the well written content.

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