Tom’s Graphic Design Journal

After a long while, I've completed a web site that was started a while ago for then Ergogenic, now E Technology Systems. Some name changes and such held this one up for a little bit. The site uses my CMS software I put together over a year ago...Wow, I've learned a lot since then. I'm capable of making a much more efficient system now and am actually in the process of doing so.

Speaking of making better CMS' and web apps, I'm working on a media blog and I'm using CakePHP to build it. This is going to change how we blog. Trust me, it will. I'm no stranger to content management systems at this point in my life. I've tried dozens and always look at new ones. I've worked on small sites, personal sites, and very large sites in terms of traffic and size. My boss brought my attention to a pretty slick looking media blog today...Think Swedish - Propod media blog. Think Swedish? Or Propod? I'm confused.

I like it and while it has some features I've thought of, I didn't make any decisions based off it and didn't know it existed, though will most likely take a deeper look and compare more to really polish off features in my blog. I haven't heard of it before today...Maybe it needs even better advertising. Opensourcecms.com maybe? If it gets open sourced? I hope it will. I don't know anyone making the next YouTube off a blog app. Blogger was pretty popular, but something tells me the market just isn't there. I don't know, I'll plug it. It's quite cool. Will give it a better look for some ideas but, from what I can tell, what I'm working on is a bit larger/more flexible and more importantly targeted at a different audience.

Simple, but larger. I understand simplicity is key for usability. One thing my media blog will aim at is accessibility (God knows that's hard with media on the web - so to a degree), scalability, and extendability. It will ultimately be released open source (most likely, still researching licensing options). One brief look into Propod, I'm not quite sure it's ideal for SEO. I know search engines are starting to hit Flash more, but there's a limit.

I'm not going to give away any details now unfortunately, but I will preface it for the world (that is the small one that may see this).

More on it all later. I also promise not to put any cheesy dramatic photographs of myself anywhere on my site now or in the future. I'm not a model. I'm a designer. I'm a developer. I'm an artist. I usually stand on the other side of the camera taking those photos

   

After a long while, I've completed a web site that was started a while ago for then Ergogenic, now E Technology Systems. Some name changes and such held this one up for a little bit. The site uses my CMS software I put together over a year ago...Wow, I've learned a lot since then. I'm capable of making a much more efficient system now and am actually in the process of doing so.

Speaking of making better CMS' and web apps, I'm working on a media blog and I'm using CakePHP to build it. This is going to change how we blog. Trust me, it will. I'm no stranger to content management systems at this point in my life. I've tried dozens and always look at new ones. I've worked on small sites, personal sites, and very large sites in terms of traffic and size. My boss brought my attention to a pretty slick looking media blog today...Think Swedish - Propod media blog. Think Swedish? Or Propod? I'm confused.

I like it and while it has some features I've thought of, I didn't make any decisions based off it and didn't know it existed, though will most likely take a deeper look and compare more to really polish off features in my blog. I haven't heard of it before today...Maybe it needs even better advertising. Opensourcecms.com maybe? If it gets open sourced? I hope it will. I don't know anyone making the next YouTube off a blog app. Blogger was pretty popular, but something tells me the market just isn't there. I don't know, I'll plug it. It's quite cool. Will give it a better look for some ideas but, from what I can tell, what I'm working on is a bit larger/more flexible and more importantly targeted at a different audience.

Simple, but larger. I understand simplicity is key for usability. One thing my media blog will aim at is accessibility (God knows that's hard with media on the web - so to a degree), scalability, and extendability. It will ultimately be released open source (most likely, still researching licensing options). One brief look into Propod, I'm not quite sure it's ideal for SEO. I know search engines are starting to hit Flash more, but there's a limit.

I'm not going to give away any details now unfortunately, but I will preface it for the world (that is the small one that may see this).

More on it all later. I also promise not to put any cheesy dramatic photographs of myself anywhere on my site now or in the future. I'm not a model. I'm a designer. I'm a developer. I'm an artist. I usually stand on the other side of the camera taking those photos