New site design..?
31 December 2005
Well 'new' is probably a bit strong. Back in 2004 Mike worked up a new look and feel for the Semantic site based on the current layout, but something much cleaner.After posting about the 'long slow death' yesterday I went back and tinkered with it to make myself feel better. (My son is pretty sick at the moment so I am stuck at home without much to do... in case you think it is very sad to be working while on holiday).
Anyway, I am wondering whether we can get the new look and feel up... which is pretty mad considering all the other stuff we need to focus on in Q1, but still I wonder. It would be great to start the year with something fresh.
Essentially we would dump all of the Lab areas and anything else which is horribly out of date... and just focus on the basic pages. It's a plan... but I guess it will depend on what greets me on Tuesday.
Posted by Nick Warren at 7:40 AM
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The long slow death of Semantic's web site
30 December 2005
It's pretty shameful, but our web site is creaking along fours years after we first built it, January 2002.These are some of the reasons excuses we use about it:
- we are too busy doing actual work to focus on our site
- we have more plenty of work, we obviously don't need it
- no one reads it anyway
- it's not bad
Of all of these above, I dislike the last one the most. When we publish Semantic's New Years Resolutions on Sunday changing the web site will be right near the top... mind you we've a mountain of work in Q1...
Posted by Nick Warren at 1:01 PM
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Semantic is hiring!
Those of you who follow Semantic will know that we've lost Tom to a job that does not involve him spending half his life stuck on the M3.This is sad news, not least because it looks as though I am going to have to start doing some work around here.
In a desperate effort to avoid this state of affairs I am now searching for Semantic's next victim.
But this is a serious business. As well as losing a friend from the office we are losing Tom's strong technical and personal skills. Whoever replaces him will have a lot of live up to... but anyway, let's talk about you...
- you have a happy, confident personality
- you like talking to people
- you are creative, enthusiastic
- you like making stuff
- you have strong html, ASP, ASP.net & javascript skills
- you've seen our recent stuff, and know how we can make it better!
And so on and so forth.
Of course the list is not exhaustive. If you are all these things and have a black-belt in Macromedia Flash, bring it on.
It is no accident that the personality stuff is at the top of our list. Yes you'll need the technical skills, but the personality is a big deal for us. If you think you fit the criteria drop us a line.
P.S. And Tom, best of luck. We will miss you around here.
Posted by Nick Warren at 12:10 PM
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Blogging Semantic: Why oh why?
Okay, by way of a test we thought we'd blog Semantic for the first few weeks of 2006, with a mind to carrying on if it seems like fun. Our aim is to be fun, frequent and informal.Obviously this lack of formality does not mean that we will be revealing anything confidential, but if you switch your RSS feeds on stun you might get to hear about things as soon as we can talk about them. (That means you Mum).
We are going to kick off by keeping all posts open to comments. Fun, polite and friendly people are always welcome.
Happy New Year for 2006, and may it be a good one for all of us.
Posted by Nick Warren at 11:41 AM
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