In addition to the new round of work I’ve added to the site in the overhaul, I’ve been busying myself with other projects big and small. In an effort to fill space, I will mention a few of them.
Looking back to the spring, for the third year in a row I was responsible for the printed materials for the Run for Rights (which I unfortunately had to miss participating in), a 10 kilometre fund-raising run held in Winnipeg every June. It was this run last year that got me interested in running on regular basis. Ruth bought me a nice pair of New Balance’s for my birthday, and I bought some track pants. That was June of 2006. Last week I used them for the first time – 30 minutes first thing in the morning. I came home feeling like death and my legs were wrecked for days.
2007 Run for Rights promotional poster
Who’s to blame here? Me, for running too far, too early, while out of shape? The Run for Rights as an organization for giving me the idea that running recreationally was a smart thing to do? Unfortunately we’ll never know. But I digress.
In May I created the tour poster for Propagandhi’s Midwestern tour of the United States. I never thought I’d find myself buying a stock illustration of a young boy riding an eagle, but this is why life stays interesting. (Yes, the poster is intentional irony.)
Propagandhi’s May 2007 Midwestern-US tour poster
Two under-the-hood overhauls as of late have been on The Next American City and Inn at the Forks web sites. Both were originally built with bloated, non-validating markup and performed poorly for people browsing using assistive technology or on mobile devices. I rewrote both from scratch, making some small tweaks to the design of both at the same time. The Next American City also gained a Wordpress-powered blog to post their commentary and news updates.
One larger site redesign that I invested a lot of time in this summer is currently in the hands of other developers who are working on behind-the-scenes magic. When they’re done I’ll have more interface stuff to do, but I hope we’ll have it live in the next month or so.
So yeah. Lots of exciting stuff coming up. It should be a fun winter. Unfortunately I’ll have a lot of work to do! Har har … har … errhhh, ahem.
