I’ve honestly been too busy this week to post much at all, so this will be a bit of a recap. The Pre-College Newsletter has left the building, and I couldn’t be happier. Printing Services at the University of Arkansas was kind enough to rush the print job through for us, but their lack of skill at working with electronic files was pathetic. I provided them with the newsletter in PageMaker, PDF, PS, and EPS formats on CD-ROM and Zip100. They couldn’t make any of those work on their Xerox equipment, despite telling me last week that they could. They ended up scanning in my printed original. I hope that they work some of the bugs out of their system before I have to send a print job to them again.
This morning I uploaded a revamped version of the UBETS splash/gateway page. I’m much happier with the striped-down look of this one. I also coded up an online application form for some summer jobs we have open. I have two more of these to do, but they’ll have to wait. Since we’re now working with the YOU program, I coded up a very simple page that states the goals of that program.
What’s really cool is I have Flash 5 on my machine (installed it yesterday). I’m new to Flash but I’ve wanted to learn about it for quite some time. I doubt I’ll be cranking out anything as cool as once-upon-a-forest.com anytime soon, but I am looking forward to using it (tastefully) to add a bit of animation to our sites (and my own sites).
Vicki sent me a nice Valentine’s Day card and gift. (I know you’re reading this: thank you).
I didn’t get to see my wife, Gina, on Valentine’s Day because she’s in Morrilton, Arkansas consulting with the local Department of Human Services. I did get to see her on the 13th, though, and that made up for it a bit. Her job keeps her out of town a lot, especially in the past few weeks, but she’ll be back Friday and we can celebrate then.
I received a nice letter praising the BassBook today, this one from a kind person in Greece. I also received a strange email asking me to participate in some sort of web-based survey to narrow down the definition of Postmodernism. I’ll keep you posted on that one.