February 18, 2009

Yet Another Website Done!

Just a day after finishing the HCCG website, I started and finished the website for the Harvard College Global Heatlh and AIDS Coalition (http://hcs.harvard.edu/hac/).

For this website, the users wanted to be able to 1) easily edit the static pages and 2) have a blog. My solution was to use Wordpress to maintain the entire website. Thus instead of integrating Wordpress into a website like I’ve done for my own website and for katherinejhan.com, I’ve done the reverse.

Used the pixeled theme from Wordpress, modified of course to make it suitable for a static content view. Best part is that non-code content changes are easy (and mostly done already!)

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February 14, 2009

Another Website Finished

I’ve just finished a website for Richard Griffin, a journalist who has been writing columns for many years. He wanted a website to list and archive his writings, and so I’ve created http://richardbgriffin.com for him. It features articles, blog, links, and a few static pages.

It was actually interesting to create the site – he has nearly a thousand articles from the last decade (and more from before that aren’t web-published). The last decade is when my most vivid memories have developed, so it was a sort of blast-from-the-past as I processed articles about Pope John Paul II, Bush’s presidential wins, 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, and the 2008 presidential election.

I don’t agree with everything or even anything that my clients want on their websites, but it’s still an interesting read. Check it out if you have the time – there’s lots of articles about aging and spirituality.

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February 7, 2009

Website Update

Filed under: Blog Stuff, Coding, TechnologyTags: , , , , , , , , , , — darrenhe @ 7:30 PM

Didn’t do much today besides the standard bicycle ride, but last night:

  • Converted the static pages to PHP so I could have an easily modifiable header and footer.
  • Made a mobile version of my website, self-hosted except for the Wordpress blog.
  • Changed the fonts on my blog a bit to make it more readable.

I suppose it wasn’t too hard, but all that time put in and the website…looks the same! Backend changes are mainly for personal satisfaction (and a little bit of optimization).

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