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Zac Smith
SharePoint, WSS and MOSS development.

The Mechanics Car

by Zac Smith 4-Jun-09, 5 Comments
As a web developer, building your own website can be one of the most challenging jobs you have. There can be a lot of pressure and expectation, not so much from your clients and peers, but from yourself. As a result the proverbial mechanics car situation seems to occur and the website gets poorly neglected. Either that or you are just really busy.

At any rate we finally have a website that we are somewhat happy with. I still have a huge list of improvements to roll out and I hope to talk about some of these enhancements over the next month.
 
As far as providing SharePoint services go, creating public websites is definitely one of Trinkit’s specialties, so we want to showcase some of our skills on our website and blog. Our website might not look hugely different but a lot has changed under the covers. The main difference is that the site is now built on our new SharePoint web framework. The framework provides a lot general plumbing and optimisation which allows us to spend more time focusing on the development of actual functionality.

I hope you like our “refreshed” site :)
 
Categories: Accessibility, MOSS, SharePoint, Trinkit
5 responses so far:
  • Saturday, 6 Jun 2009 02:36 by bazztrap
    Is this OOB sharePoint site or CKS EBE?
  • Saturday, 6 Jun 2009 05:15 by A SharePoint Dreamer
    Boy, do I know all about the mechanic versus his own car kind of situation. However, I guess there's method to the occasional web developer's under-performance - one definitely has to ensure that the site sets the clients' imagination working, so to speak. The inevitable indicator of one's being professional enough is, just as you so correctly stated, some promising functionality disguised as plainness.
  • Saturday, 6 Jun 2009 02:07 by Zac
    @bazztrap Yes the blog itself is built using CKS, the rest of the site is standard SharePoint WCM
  • Saturday, 6 Jun 2009 11:10 by Matt Gould
    This applies to designers just as much as developers I think, ambitious plans but no time to execute them so you just end up with the most horrible compromise and forget all of the processes you insist your clients follow with predictable results. I suffered, believe it or not with the same dilemma with haircuts as a student, couldn't afford the haircut I wanted so instead of just getting a cheap crappy buzz cut walked around with mangy overgrown hair that looked even worse. Anyway, new site looks great, so well done you fellas.
  • Sunday, 7 Jun 2009 02:04 by Zac Smith
    You got it right about compromise. In many ways our very first site was the best as it was a simple one page slice of a web site. Love the hair analogy! Very funny.

 

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