Content Management Systems
In 1998, after studying and passing some basic exams for Netscape Internet Server and Microsoft Internet Information Servers, I joined an internet practice as a Programmer/Analyst and soon became the business analyst coordinating legal contracts with software companies for which we would implement and customise their products at clients we found. (Note later in 2003, this launched in to a brief role as pre-sales support writing up bids for software contracts. Pre-sales support was born in me. I was not experienced enough and/or lacked the professional confidence to really run with it at that point.)
From 1999 - 2002, I manually managed the content updates (predominantly HTML, CSS) and site expansions (coordinating with Marketing for requirements & digital content, graphic artist for new images which I made web-happy, and PERL scripter) on 2 B2C and one B2B commercial websites. The company brought in Fatwire and with my maintenance input, designed a new site to enable marketing input. Fatwire was later purchased by Oracle. I went on to other content management systems.
Much later in 2007-2009 as my serious business analysis career was blossoming and I was volunteering for the local chapter of our International Institute of Business Analysis, along with participating in BA Forum planning committees, and mentoring 2 junior BAs, I found myself own gin updates to the chapter IIBA website, with a charge from headquarters in Toronto that the organisation would be changing it's service provider as well as updating to a newer CMS. Translation: I was about to embark on learning another CMS (Joomla), migrating all of our content to new web servers, and editing all of the code from the old CMS formats to the new one to make sure they worked nicely. I had a time limit to make this happen.
I did embrace the website migration and change in CMS. I had been hiring more volunteers to aid in the various monthly web & technologies tasks, so finding a few people to perform testing for me was all I need to plan and execute this migration.
In the end the migration was on time, and on budget (volunteer only).
Personally, I had several blogs going at blogger.com and used this to test out my personalisation abilities in CSS and whatever the blogger code at the time was behind the scenes. I soon registered three domain names and continued expanding my front end development and design skills with xHTML, CSS. I ran URLyGRL.com as a tech blog, SolamenteKate.com as a food and entertainment blog of sorts, and UnitPond.net became my quite poetry, writing, and nature photography site, where I admittedly spent more time designing the site than I did creating content for it.
I have always loved dabbling in CSS and HTML, like art work, a meditative creative outlet. When I was put on assignment to learn about the potential of SecondLife for virtual meetings and selling distribution, I near but dropped everything else and within 3-5 months found myself doing landscape design (3d) and hosting online live music events.
Did I mention I met my husband there? I remember mentioning the 3D world to my then longterm boyfriend, but he politely declined. I got swept away in another world, running my own business in world, and soon oddly meet my husband to be.
This post is entitled Content Management Systems. When I moved over the pond to live with him, I tested out word press, and researched SquareSpace too.
... and that's where this post ended, as I delved in to building an entire garden design website on square space~!
From 1999 - 2002, I manually managed the content updates (predominantly HTML, CSS) and site expansions (coordinating with Marketing for requirements & digital content, graphic artist for new images which I made web-happy, and PERL scripter) on 2 B2C and one B2B commercial websites. The company brought in Fatwire and with my maintenance input, designed a new site to enable marketing input. Fatwire was later purchased by Oracle. I went on to other content management systems.
Much later in 2007-2009 as my serious business analysis career was blossoming and I was volunteering for the local chapter of our International Institute of Business Analysis, along with participating in BA Forum planning committees, and mentoring 2 junior BAs, I found myself own gin updates to the chapter IIBA website, with a charge from headquarters in Toronto that the organisation would be changing it's service provider as well as updating to a newer CMS. Translation: I was about to embark on learning another CMS (Joomla), migrating all of our content to new web servers, and editing all of the code from the old CMS formats to the new one to make sure they worked nicely. I had a time limit to make this happen.
I did embrace the website migration and change in CMS. I had been hiring more volunteers to aid in the various monthly web & technologies tasks, so finding a few people to perform testing for me was all I need to plan and execute this migration.
In the end the migration was on time, and on budget (volunteer only).
Personally, I had several blogs going at blogger.com and used this to test out my personalisation abilities in CSS and whatever the blogger code at the time was behind the scenes. I soon registered three domain names and continued expanding my front end development and design skills with xHTML, CSS. I ran URLyGRL.com as a tech blog, SolamenteKate.com as a food and entertainment blog of sorts, and UnitPond.net became my quite poetry, writing, and nature photography site, where I admittedly spent more time designing the site than I did creating content for it.
I have always loved dabbling in CSS and HTML, like art work, a meditative creative outlet. When I was put on assignment to learn about the potential of SecondLife for virtual meetings and selling distribution, I near but dropped everything else and within 3-5 months found myself doing landscape design (3d) and hosting online live music events.
Did I mention I met my husband there? I remember mentioning the 3D world to my then longterm boyfriend, but he politely declined. I got swept away in another world, running my own business in world, and soon oddly meet my husband to be.
This post is entitled Content Management Systems. When I moved over the pond to live with him, I tested out word press, and researched SquareSpace too.
... and that's where this post ended, as I delved in to building an entire garden design website on square space~!
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