February to July, 2009

Almost five months passed since my last entry in this blog, so it's about time that I get round to it again, isn't it? So here goes.

Since February, I have:

Been working flat-out to develop the Entrybox website. Entrybox is a site that makes it easy for New Zealanders to find and enter competitions. The coolest part of creating Entrybox (using the Drupal CMS), was the challenge to stay true to the awesome grapic design, using the Zen theme as a starting point. The result is a site that doesn't look anything like Drupal (until you go to the login page that is).

Completed my MySource Matrix admin training.

Become a BlackBerry user. At first, I had my doubts about the BlackBerry, but it definitely grew on me. I actually became fond of it. It has certainly confirmed my belief that all websites should be built using web standards, and made me even more irate when I encounter Flash that is used inappropriately on a website.

Started to tweet on Twitter . Yes, I'm Twitter-pecked. I mostly tweet about #coffee, #cooking, and #baking, but also a bit about marketing, websites, and the odd social issue. Such as #cadbury stuffing up their already questionable chocolate by adding palm oil to it. Yuk. Long live De Spa Chocolate !

Did not become a slave to Facebook. Me, I prefer LinkedIn. True, Facebook is a neat way to catch up with old connections and relatives now living Far Far Away, but I just don't feel like living my life in Facebook.

Added less recipes to Rainbow Cooking that I would have liked to. Not doing so makes me feel a bit guilty, especially as the number of visitors to Rainbow Cooking continue to climb at a steady rate. Sites such as www.self-help.co.nz and all4women.co.za started to re-publish our recipes, which is really cool.

 

And that is all I can think of right now!