Tuesday April 28th
Was off sick yesterday, so I had some catching up to do.
Spent today working on flyers. Last week I got the FareTeam flyer ready for print. Today saw me producing a modified version for emailing. After this I had another project dumped on my lap. I've to design a flyer advertising "Continental Airlines" and a special promotion that we have with them. It has to be finished by Thursday which will mean I have to get it finished for the end of work tomorrow. This wouldn't be too bad, but for the fact that I can't find any suitable photos that I can make use of.
In dealing with this I've turned to vector art as the basis of the flyer. I got a rough layout of the design put in place, but I've already had an idea as to how to improve things, which I shall be looking into tomorrow first thing. Fingers crossed it'll be finished in time.
Posted by Wulf on April 28, 2009, 8:10 pm with 0 comments - Permalink
Improvements to the site
For a while now I have been looking at other sites and noticing a rather impressive syntax highlighting process going on when they display their code. I found one in the form of Alex Gorbatchev's SyntaxHighlighter package.
I've finally managed to find the time to get it implemented in the site, so now my code samples should make a bit more sense and be a bit easier for me to include in the future too, which is definitely a good thing. I've still got a lot of work to put into this site before I'll be fully happy with it, but it's getting there.
Posted by Wulf on April 26, 2009, 5:42 pm with 0 comments - Permalink
Friday 24th April
Well that's another day of placement done and out of the way. Today I'd planned on getting a few things done with regards to the website, primarily the following:
- Add photos to gallery sections for deals added recently
- Get the flights deal and category sections updated with the new look
I also had to get a flyer ready for print submission done for the end of the day. I'd like to say that I got a chance to look at the web related stuff, I really would. However, that would be a lie.
What ended up happening was that I spent the day wrestling with InDesign to try and get it to do the things that I wanted it to do in a way that would look nice once printed. I'm not going to fault the software, more that it's a fault with my preference for coding. I'm just not used to the whole WYSIWIG side of software and have always leaned more towards media to be placed on the web.
I finally got the thing finished up about 20 minutes before my day ended. Hardly the most productive day ever...
Posted by Wulf on April 24, 2009, 7:11 pm with 0 comments - Permalink
Wednesday April 22nd
Today was a bit of a strange day. Things started off painfully slowly and continued that way for most of the day. I spent the vast majority of my day finding images to fill out the image galleries for vacations on the website. The highlight of the first half of the day was the BT Engineer coming in and sorting out the phones.
That all changed towards the end of the day when it seemed that the entire office needed me to do things. Sorting out eflyers, putting deals onto the site, fixing problems in the code of the Thriftway Travel site. Some of them were entirely my fault, failing to code flash to play nice with Internet Explorer for example, but others are things that are completly beyond my control to fix, such as how Internet Explorer renders things when you zoom in or out of the page.
I also had to send out an eflyer to Thriftway Consol's mailing list, and have set one up for sending tomorrow. When I get in on Friday I will be sorting another and preparing 2 flyers for print.
In tech tomorrow for presentations.
Posted by Wulf on April 22, 2009, 8:14 pm with 0 comments - Permalink
Tuesday April 21st
Today I spent continuing the work on the Thriftway Site. Had a few deals to put on at the start of the day and then it was straight into the coding. Both the Cruises and Package Deals sections have their individual post designs implemented. Unfortunately I haven't been able to implement the design into either the Flights or the Category areas. This is due to a complete lack of any Flight deals on the site for me to test things with to ensure that they're working.
I also got the opportunity of dealing with a technician/engineer from BT today. The phone system in the offices has been acting up since Thursday and, after trying everything we could, we've had to get someone with an idea out to look at things. He took a look at the system and will probably be getting back to me tomorrow.
Posted by Wulf on April 21, 2009, 7:02 pm with 0 comments - Permalink
