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Journal Journal: Checklist (for my info) - Repost

Journal by Kris_B_04 on Tuesday July 13, 2010 @02:44PM

A Website Design & Development Project Checklist (Repost)

Posted by: Eric Key in websites, web design, marketing on Nov 19, 2008

Another great post by Shaun is this one:

A (Nearly) Bulletproof Web Design & Development Project Checklist for clients and designers.

If you're aiming to agree a fixed price for the development of the website, as we do, ensure the project goes smoothly before you start, by communicating with your client at the outset.

Journal Journal: Absolute Positioning in a CMS

Journal by Kris_B_04 on Tuesday June 29, 2010 @12:23PM

Arrggghhhhh

So, my co-worker, people person in IT was contacted today about an issue in our CMS. They could not click any of the buttons or tabs in the CMS on just one Article. It worked everywhere else but the one article. My co-worker looked at it, but could not figure it out, so he passed it on to me.

So I logged in to look at it. Weird. Very very weird.

Journal Journal: Long time.. LOL 1

Journal by Kris_B_04 on Wednesday March 03, 2010 @11:42AM

Well, I still reign as conversion queen. I still get assigned all the conversions.. and guess what?
I still love it!! ;)

That's my update.. *grin*

Comment A quarter? (Score 5, Insightful) 120

by DianeOfTheMoon on Thursday January 07, 2010 @07:33AM (#30680792) Attached to: Microsoft Announces "Game Room," Confirms Natal For Late 2010

Only Microsoft could charge you $.50 to make you feel like you dropped a quarter. I swear these guys could nickel-and-dime nickels and dimes.

First Beta of Opera 10 Released 278

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday June 03, 2009 @11:46AM from the new-and-shiny dept.

Miladinoski writes "Opera Software ASA today released the first beta of their tenth version of the Opera browser. In addition to the browser's known features, like mouse gestures, keyboard shortcuts, voice navigation, mail and RSS support, speed dial and so forth, it now includes a Turbo mode which unclogs your connection to get faster browsing, a new interface, a tabbed browsing update and customizable speed dial. Opera 10 continues to follow the web standards by getting 100/100 and pixel-perfect scores on the Acid3 test. The beta is currently available for every modern OS platform."

Microsoft Confirms October 22 Release Date For Windows 7 182

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday June 03, 2009 @10:40AM from the pretending-to-be-surprised dept.

techwrench was one of several readers to send word that Microsoft has officially announced Windows 7 will be generally available on October 22nd. They also mentioned the Windows 7 Upgrade Option Program: "This program enables participating retailers and OEMs to offer a special deal to upgrade to Windows 7 for customers purchasing a qualifying PC. I'll be doing another blog post about this program with a date and more details when we get closer to availability. Obviously, Release To Manufacturing (RTM) is an important milestone on the path to GA. We anticipate that we'll be able to make the RTM code for Windows 7 available to our partners sometime in the 2nd half of July. We also expect to be able to make RTM code for Windows Server 2008 R2 available to our partners in this time frame as well."

Comment Not enough time... (Score 1) 588

by Kris_B_04 on Monday October 27, 2008 @05:42PM (#25533893) Attached to: Why are oil prices dropping?

They haven't had enough time to start pouring the oil into the ocean yet to make it an "oil shortage" and raise the prices!!!

Journal Journal: Update ... More conversions!

Journal by Kris_B_04 on Monday October 13, 2008 @05:14PM

Well, I haven't updated in a while. Mostly I've been running more conversions. Cappers, Farm Collector, Steam Traction and Gas Engine magazines have been converted into the Ektron CMS.

I also updated the Motorcycle Classics manufacturers page. http://www.motorcycleclassics.com/classic-motorcycles.aspx

Journal Journal: Conversion Queen 2

Journal by Kris_B_04 on Monday February 25, 2008 @11:31PM

My boss called me the Conversion Queen.. and then promptly gave me 3 more conversions.. LOL

Ah well... kinda cool in a way. Good thing I love playing with Databases.. *grin*

I finished the Herb Companion conversion. It went fairly smoothly. Grit is supposed to be next, but they haven't gotten me the data to convert yet!

In between, I've been working on a contest page, forums, event registrations and various errors that have popped up.

Comment Re:Firefox! (Score 1) 480

by DianeOfTheMoon on Monday January 21, 2008 @04:38PM (#22130346) Attached to: Microsoft to Force IE7 Update on February 12th

A large part of the problem here is that this isn't a simple 1->2->3 progression. There are days when I can use firefox all day and have it be snappy and only use about 100MB active with about 500MB in virtual memory.

There are other days, however, when Firefox uses 700MB of active memory and nearly 2.5GB of virtual space. Now, this is the result of 2-5 days worth of browsing. How in your right mind do you expect me to keep track of every click that I made over 5 days so that you can file a bug report? Do you have a keytrapper and site visitation storage engine that keeps up every image, flash video and html of the site? After all, it could be any of that. I don't mind trying to help out, and I'm sure a large portion of the FF community doesn't either, but we've gone beyond what the end users can do to help you with this issue, percieved or real, and it's now in your hands to be the developer and QA this to find out what is going on.

Journal Journal: Motorcycle Classics Live

Journal by Kris_B_04 on Friday January 18, 2008 @11:03AM

Actually it went live before Christmas. LOL
I guess I fell behind on this journal!

But now I am working on the MEL Tips conversion, Grit conversion and a Recipe Database conversion! :)

Life is good!!!

Journal Journal: MCC almost ready to go live!!

Journal by Kris_B_04 on Monday October 01, 2007 @03:30PM

In fact, it's been moved to the Live Server (although currently you can only access it internally)
This is so exciting! :)

It's been a busy 4 months, but it's been fun!

On a side note, almost a year, and I'm STILL loving this job!!! :)

on a FURTHER side note, the KC Chief's and the KSU Wildcat's had a GREAT weekend in football!!
Whoo hoo!

k.
back to work!
*grin*

Feed Wired: New Fossil Studies Challenge Old Evolution Theory (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Thursday August 09, 2007 @11:53AM

Conventional theory holds that Homo sapiens evolved Homo erectus which evolved from Homo habilis. But the dating of two fossils -- one Homo erectus and the other Homo habilis -- show that the two earlier species lived side by side, and for a long time.

Journal Journal: Existance of life != Water - Methane - Ozone 1

Journal by Kris_B_04 on Wednesday April 11, 2007 @12:07PM

Why is it so important for certain chemicals to be present in order to discover "life"? I know Water is required for human existence, but why do scientists limit their searches for life on the foundation that all life must be carbon-based?

I mean, you always hear things such as:

Journal Journal: Forums Converted and LIVE!!!! :)

Journal by Kris_B_04 on Wednesday March 21, 2007 @05:06PM

My conversion worked!! Everything is up and running!!! (I ran my conversion at the end of February... it didn't go live until last Friday..... why you ask? Hell if I know!!!)

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