Our community association is updating our website. I'm the overall project lead, and there's lots of balls in the air. It's not just moving existing content into a new skin, it's updating, rearranging, and adding in some entirely new content. Some of which leads to the database we use for memberships and event registrations, which means updating it as well.
Plus, we are planning renovations to our building over the summer. I'm thankful I'm NOT the project lead for that. New flooring, new LED lighting, new paint, reworking the Board room so it's more flexible, new furniture for our staff, upgrading storage racks, new chairs, a new AV system. I think that's everything. I hope the existing AV system works for my presentation to the Seniors on Tuesday. Of the three HDMI cables, only the medium length one appears to work.
In case you don't know what it looks like, this is our building.
There's been lots of talking about what we want for the website, and we've been working with a SAIT student to get the bulk of it done. The good news is that we brought the site in-house so we can work on it ourselves, for the last bit of tweaking and tuning and linking to the test database to see how things actually look. We know they'll work, it's the same platforms on prod. It's trying to make sure the forms are asking for what we want, and that we can get the data back out again in a useful format.
It's been kind of fun in some ways. Looking through the existing database and applying some of the data integrity concepts from a previous life brought back some interesting memories. Some not so interesting, remembering my struggles with the (then) most recent version of XL, and now struggling with some of the things Apple Numbers won't do, or does differently. I dislike XL, but at one point I could bend it to my will and make it do useful things.
Plus we've been going through several cycles of alternating winter and sun tan weather. Plus getting the new SSD and copying data to it, and figuring out where everything is and what is being backed up to where. And yes, having all the raw photos on a big SSD makes working in Lightroom ever so much better, which means one of the project is looking back through a quarter of a million images looking for the ones there is no earthly reason to keep.
So let's just say there's lots of things distracting me from blogging, or even getting one of the cameras out for a walk.
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