One of the girls is leaving at work, and it looks like I'm getting her office. It won't be for a couple of weeks, but now when I go there I'm starting to look at it differently. It's a one-person office, and though I'll probably get more work done, I'll miss the crew from the old room. We've had some funny times in there. I'm rather chatty too, so being isolated will be different for me. I'll be right next to the General Manager and taking over some of the responsibility of his work. There'll be a part-time person who'll be doing most of his work, but those hours when the new person itsn't around, it'll fall to me.
I'm still working on the new website. It's taking forever. My design isn't a feasible option because it's not easily editable in a content management system, and for anyone who doesn't know HTML and CSS, it will be impossible to update. Sad, because I put alot of time into it, but I really should have thought about that first.
One option that they're looking at is using Typo3, a free Open Source content management system for enterprise purposes on the web and in intranets. It offers full flexibility and extendability while featuring an accomplished set of ready-made interfaces, functions and modules. I downloaded a version tonight that installs on a Windows machine; a complete Apache / MySQL / PHP environment with a TYPO3 package. It's the ideal solution to learn the program before going "live". According the the developers, you need at least a month to understand Typo3, so I'm in for a rather large learning curve. There's a huge document library and examples.
That's only one option. We have another new design that I'm going to test in Dreamweaver, and so far it looks like that may work. Another learning curve too, because I've never used Dreamweaver properly. For me, it's only ever been a quick editing option, but I know it's capable of much more.
I have less than a year now to give up smoking, I promised the kids I'd give up before I turn 50. The count-down has begun.