Comments on: Correction to Palladium-Item article about City of Richmond website http://www.summersault.com/community/weblog/2007/12/09/correction-to-palladium-item-article-about-city-of-richmond-website.html The weblog for Summersault, LLC, a website development firm in Richmond, Indiana Sun, 12 Oct 2008 02:43:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1.3 by: Aaron http://www.summersault.com/community/weblog/2007/12/09/correction-to-palladium-item-article-about-city-of-richmond-website.html#comment-74083 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 14:01:40 +0000 http://www.summersault.com/community/weblog/2007/12/09/correction-to-palladium-item-article-about-city-of-richmond-website.html#comment-74083 FWIW, As I was the one who did the re-design in early 2005, I think the P-I article is a little unfair. I was the *only* person doing ANY work with the website and had to develop the whole thing on my own, while working with an administration that not only has no idea what they want, but no idea what was possible. I will be the first to admit that my skills are NOT predominantly artistically oriented, and that the new site *does* look a lot nicer. The 2005 remix featured a written-from-scratch content management system (At that time, I had not known about Wordpress or Joomla!.), fully searchable Richmond City Code database, and dynamically generated content. The backend of it all was pretty solid, and re-designing it, "Sprucing it up" as Scott said, would have been a trivialty. In any case -- I guess I can join the club of "former lovers of the city of richmond's website" -- is it open bar or cash bar? FWIW, As I was the one who did the re-design in early 2005, I think the P-I article is a little unfair. I was the *only* person doing ANY work with the website and had to develop the whole thing on my own, while working with an administration that not only has no idea what they want, but no idea what was possible.

I will be the first to admit that my skills are NOT predominantly artistically oriented, and that the new site *does* look a lot nicer. The 2005 remix featured a written-from-scratch content management system (At that time, I had not known about Wordpress or Joomla!.), fully searchable Richmond City Code database, and dynamically generated content. The backend of it all was pretty solid, and re-designing it, “Sprucing it up” as Scott said, would have been a trivialty.

In any case — I guess I can join the club of “former lovers of the city of richmond’s website” — is it open bar or cash bar?

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