It’s one of those days. One of those where every second of concentration has to be fought for. It’s probably my own fault. I had a late night last night, following the styremøte for NMWL. I had pretty late nights Sunday and Monday, too, which doesn’t help. I’ve got loads to do, but all of the vague or not-very-urgent variety (I need deadlines, I need to get better at setting and keeping my own deadlines). I have also got two web-site redesigns floating around in my head. One I have already mentioned, concerns this site. The other is the NMWL site. Our webmaster has passed the torch due to illness (and possibly boredom), and I have volunteered to pick it up. However, the site has been created using MSWord (I can hear the techies groan…), so before I do anything I will have to rewrite the back-end, because as it is I have problems updating even simple information like phone numbers because of all the code I have to wade through. You might object that I could open the page in Word and find the text easily, and you’d be right, in a way, but you would also be oh so wrong. Where’s the fun of web-design if you get Word to do it all for you? Anyway, I’ve been itching all day to get down and dirty and convert the whole thing to style sheets and simple code, but I don’t suppose that’s what my employers are paying me for. Pity. And I don’t really have all that much time tonight. Well, at least I’ve got a massage (mmmmmmmmm) booked at half seven, but I guess that will only take me out of the house for an hour at most, so I will have some time. But I also have a date with my bed. There are two working days left before the weekend, and I have too much work on to have another one (or two) like this one. So, sleep. Major priority.
Once I’ve done the behind-the-scenes stuff I’ll get more adventurous and see what else we might use. A group (the executive committee) blog for news broadcasting seems like a good idea – I could even tie it to a mailing list so that members could subscribe to the news items. We could also do with some more pictures. I also wouldn’t mind doing something with the design look-wise. I’m not going to repeat what one of the guys here at work said abou the existing one, but it was not flattering. I don’t think it’s that bad, it’s just not outstanding either. Amber would be a good colour for a whisky site. That would also rule amber out for the colour scheme for this site, which wouldn’t be a bad thing (limiting my options might make it possible to chose). And the five favourites “vote” could definitely do with being written as a form that you could fill in instead of just the “e-mail the webmaster”. And… And… Well, as you can imagine, it affects my concentration…
Oooh, lookie!
Voice in my head: “It’s cold outside and there’s no kind of atmosphere…”