Posted: April 26th, 2009 | Author: Noah | Filed under: Photos, Projects | No Comments »
In 2007 Megan and I stopped using our photo galleries hosted on this site and started using Google’s Picasa Web Albums instead. There were a lot of reasons for doing this, but we were never quite satisfied with Picasa Web Albums. I’ve been looking for a self-hosted solution for a while and finally found a good one called ZenPhoto. It even had a theme based on the design I had used for the the old galleries created by Doug Bowman, who happens to the new creative director at Twitter.
So now all of our photo albums old and new are available at Hawk’s Eye. We’ll post new photos and galleries there and you can subscribe to a RSS feed of the galleries and leave comments on the photos. Some captions are still missing, but I’ll work to add those over the next week or so.
Posted: April 6th, 2009 | Author: Noah | Filed under: Media, Projects, Technology | 2 Comments »
A year ago today the Guadalajara Reporter launched a completely new site that was developed by me. So I thought that it might be a good time to talk about what this last year has brought to the site, what I think about working on a newspaper website, and what I think about the future newspapers in general.
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Posted: April 7th, 2008 | Author: Noah | Filed under: Projects | 2 Comments »
A project I’ve been involved in since last October has now launched. The Guadalajara Reporter (where Megan works as a staff reporter) has launched the all new GuadalajaraReporter.com. Most of the content on the site is for paid subscribers only, but all newly registered users get a 1-day pass to the News section. Give it a try!
How about a little background on the project? This project has been 1 1/2 years in the making (although my involvement only began about 6 months ago). To begin with, the Publishers of the paper decided that their former site, which they’d had since 1999 was in need of a complete overhaul. After over a year of trying to work with a developer, they hadn’t gotten much further than the initial site visual design.
In October of last year I approached the Publishers and proposed taking over the development of the site. My proposal included moving all of their existing content and users databases to a new system based on the open-source content management system Joomla. I also proposed to set-up a ad server based on the open-source tool OpenX. These two foundational systems would cost the company nothing and even with the inclusion of some commercial extensions for Joomla, the cost for software would be minimal.
Over the last 6 months I’ve worked very closely with the Publishers and have brought the site in less than half the time as the previous developer worked on the site and at the same budget as the initial developers visual design only.
The site is being hosted by the always wonderful Dreamhost.
Also, since the site just launched last night and since we are with a new host, you may still see the old site for the next day or more.
Posted: September 9th, 2004 | Author: Noah | Filed under: Photos, Projects | 2 Comments »
I have been looking to create a photo project using my camera phone and I decided on one a month ago or so. On a bus ride home from work I took a picture at every stop the bus made. You can see the results of the project at the Bus Stop. Click on the red dots to see the picture.
Hopefully you will enjoy and this will make up for the earlier downtime.
