Geekido.org

Facelift 1

Posted by Chris Cooke on September 25th 2006 to Geekido, Web Design

I’ve changed the template for geekido.org to one that identifies the author of the post (which seems to be just about every theme except the one I was using.)

Yes, I know I could have just edited the theme to add the author info, but we also want to experiment with a few different looks and feels before ultimately designing a unified “Geekido” look that we’ll use both here and at geekido.com. (They won’t be exact, of course, but we want enough similarity in elements to make it clear they are related.

This theme is Flex, by Phu Ly.

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Educating customers

Posted by Chris Cooke on September 01st 2006 to Geekido, Web Design, Business

Julie just came across this excellent article on the expectations vs. reality of customers wanting a web site. It’s everything you want to tell your customer, but might be scared to for fear of damaging the relationship. We may seriously consider using this early in the process to educate customers. I expect that we will be able to use their reaction to gauge their committment, and give an early warning to a project that may be better handled by a different firm. (Doesn’t that sound a lot better than “early warning that this customer is deluded and must be dropped like a hot potato?”). Seriously, though, since we expect one of our main strengths and selling points to become an ability to build rapport with our clients, this article may help us establish a mutual understanding of the process much quicker. Thanks, Ms. Schindler!

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Whirlwind

Posted by Chris Cooke on August 01st 2006 to Geekido

Can it be a coincidence, or has the whirlwind of activity at Geekido spawned off Tropical Storm Chris?

In the last month Julie and I have officially started Geekido Enterprises, LLC, started design and programming on 3 different web sites we plan to launch over the next year, refactored geekido.org, and done services work for 3 clients, all while working full time on our day jobs!

Next week it’s vacation time. I’ve sworn to take at least a couple of days off from coding to relax, and keep it in check for the rest of my vacation.

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Typo relocated

Posted by Chris Cooke on July 31st 2006 to rails, software

Last night I went to check out Typo, a Rails-powered blog, only to find the page was down. It was still down this morning. After a bit of Googling, I found a cached reference to the new home for Typo — http://www.typosphere.org. I don’t know if this is really meant to be live, since it wasn’t sitting right out there to find, but it does have some info.

UPDATE 8/1/2006

leetsoft is back up, and the redirect is in for the new Typo home, so now it’s officially live.

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Times change, sites change…

Posted by Chris Cooke on July 29th 2006 to Geekido

Geekido.org started life as a personal page about the “Geekly Lifestyle”. Originally it was a wiki right at the main page. The wiki is still around in the “Links” section, but the base of the site is now Wordpress.
Over the years my wife and I got tired of the tech mercenary rat race, and decided to go into business for ourselves, forming Geekido Enterprises, LLC.So Geekido.org is no longer my personal web page. Instead it is my “business personal” page (have I just coined a term?) By “business personal” I mean it has the flavor of a personal page, with first person articles and the opportunity to get to know me and my personality, rather than being coldly corporate, but I’ll keep the content focused to topics within the sphere of technology, and not post pictures of birthday parties and such.

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