Northwest Hockey Sports Camp
April 11, 2007
I recently helped redesign a website for a family owned Hockey Sports Camp. Some of the objectives are:
- Easy to maintain
- Easy to navigate
- Not much in the budget, it so must be up and running very quickly.
The old site is still here.
To achieve these goals I decided to use a content management system. With my prior experience using DotNetNuke, right away I was leaning in that direction. But the host that the old site is on was not MS based, so I had to look for other alternatives. After some quick research the two open source system that won me over was Joomla! and Drupal.
I installed the two system and played around with them little bit. I didn’t have too much time to go into either of them very deeply, in the end I chose Joomla. The ease of the administration screens won me over. In my opinion it is much more friendlier than Drupal’s.
Here is the new site: Northwest Hockey Sports Camp
It’s simple, not overly flashy and I’m not too fond of the colour scheme, but the clients are loving it. I handed over the controls and they are able to run with it after very little training. I charged them 18 hours worth of billable work. I didn’t include any of the setup and research effort because the geek in me knows I was having too much fun for it to be “work”.
I haven’t given up on Drupal though… my next “experiment” will definitely include Drupal in some form.
Team Foundation Power Tool
April 11, 2007
COOLNESS!!! The Process Template Editor is the tool that I worked on with Joel Semeniuk, it is now part of the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server Power Tool.
It is also presented on Channel9
