Another website..

I am working with Conway Charters, a fun new client from Fort Myers, Florida. It is a very exciting project to be working with people outside of PA, It really opens the doors to more potential clients in the future. The site is being built as I create this post, however it is coming together quite quickly. I will post more soon when the content is in place.

Going Green…website project

Chiques United Methodist Church new website is going very well. I am almost finished with most design aspects, and now am currently working on content and navigation. The project is supposed to support the theme “going green” I am not exactly sure why a church would go with that but, hey who am I to question church. please visit the site  http://chiquesumc.net as I move further along with the project until completion.

More website work !

So after having so much fun, and so much pride in working with Derrick on his site. I am happy to report I have 2 maybe 3 more website projects I am doing for some people in the near future. I am really excited to see what they will be looking to do and see if I can test more of my skills and see if new challenges arise.

Another form created and testing.

Today I finished the 2nd form for caregivers at Memorial to either update their information or if they are new to the hospital to enter their information. it is now live and working well. I am especially proud of the electronic form it generates and sends an email to the user.

After I was finished with and was about to sit back in my chair with a sigh of relief, I got another email saying “I got another idea for a form” SO, I now am working on a Medical records change form, in case of a nurse or caregiver enters a name,SSN, etc. in wrong. It generates a form and is sent to our health information services dept head. Its pretty nifty and is the one I am most proud of at the moment since I finished building it a few hours ago and I am already testing to make sure its collecting the data correctly and is generating the right fields for the form to email the Health Services dept.

Modifications complete…..

So I spent the day working at home and made the modifications that were requested by the COO. Added 5 new fields to the form. It took a while because the one field had 25 entries in it for all the departments at the Hospital. The others were pretty easy. We already at 387 people (when I started to modify the form at 1pm) Those people are lucky and don’t have to re-submit the form. The rest of the 613 people now have to submit a longer form with more info because of the issue we had with users not wanting to submit their last 4 digits of their SSN. Its as perfect as it can get until we get the next set of corrections….. Lets hope not.

DotNetNukes Usefulness

So its been only 3 shifts since we had the Disaster information page live on the new DNN site at the hospital and DNN is apparently showing its usefulness, more than I thought it would. I got out of a meetin earlier this morning on another form that I need to build for the Health Information Services Dept.

Currently they are using a word file that the user has to print out and fax. The form I am building will allow them to fill it out and email a  verification to the staff member who keeps records of new additions as well as updated information for our physicians. This form is gonna be a bit more complex to finish but I am looking forward to it.

It it exciting to see that more and more staff memebers are seeing what DNN can do and are coming up with ideas how to save time and resources.

Website for Derrick

The past few months I have been guiding my friend Derrick on the path of web development and design with a joomla based website for his section of scouts. http://ne6b.org. The last few days I have been demanded to learn flash and edit CSS and the HTML of the template on his site.

I have to say after fighting and with Flash CS3 and using many, Many colorful metaphors to get this looking right and to make the flash banner look like derrick wanted it to, its finally done.

Editing te CSS and HTML wasn’t that hard, thanks to the web developer extension in Firefox as well as the Safari 4  beta tools I found what i needed to edit within the template. It seemed easy, I think that’s because the CSS file was “neatly” laid out. Not sure all CSS files look that nice, but what do I know.

Over all I am happy with the way this site has turned out. It still has some content to be posted but the over all look is done (for now).

Next thing…. I need make it easier to update the flash banner so anyone can just upload photos to the server and then it just updates the banners automatically. (Mike clear your schedule …other than moving and the g/f) I’ll have questions with XML

Thanks again for the consult of Mike Graham, he gave me tips for the CSS and HTML as usual. I will be owing him many happy hour beverages by the time I get a degree in Web Development and Design.

The next thing on the list of things to do is teach Derrick how to do this himself so he can learn Flash, editing CSS, and HTML.

One thing to always remember…. BACKUP YOUR TEMPLATE !!!! It will safe your life someday….. but I didn’t tell Derrick that, however Mike knows what I mean he had to fix some mistakes I made with website templates before…..