Happy New Year!!!

-18 C when I went downtown today for a walkabout...
then visited my parents and watched a DVD on John Paul II...
then... reading The Way of a Pilgrim and the Pilgrim COntinues His Way, translated from Russian by Helen Bacovcin...
then... some blogging...

re: WEB SITE LAUNCH
finished up a web site this week:
a very fast "beta" version of the site is up at www.rekindlingindigenousspirit.org if you want to take a peak.
Some pre/post client brief/design notes:
1) Client has many design ideas that they included (So not all decisions are Web-Designer driven)
2) Fast delivery (still buggy and requires some technical fixes for Browser Firefox)
3) Use of framesets for nav bar set up
4) Opacity filter for watermark
5) Watermarks not all the same sizes
6) Type designed with no consideration for screen sizing
7) Video's to be embedded from You TUbe site ( Alpha version used flv's on site)
8) HTML version ( Consider all Flash redesign with creative multimedia interface ... future version possibility)
9) Budget $0.00, volunteer effort
10) produce in three days
11) Many photos, unformatted from multiple sources ( need to be resized, indexed)
12) Flash photo gallery custom designed ( LoadMovie used) to suit size of pictures ( which varied)
13) Mapping used for participants bios... (still missing some content on launch date .. pictures, bios... this is what often happens in the real world of web design... namely: Content never arrives on time, or at all, thus affecting the look/design).
14) international scope, with global social, spiritual, humanitarian, implications and perhaps political implications due to powerful transformational content
15) Documentation, , community building, and global action, are intentions/outcomes for the site
16) A documentary film is in the works about the "trip"
17) Press release sent out on December 31, 2008 to international educators, movers, shakers, transformers.
18) Modifications-to take place ongoing.
19) training included to help maintain site by local team.
20) no easter eggs ( as of yet)

time for dinner ( 6:56pm)
bye for now.
pr