Center for Spiritual Living site is live!

The Center for Spiritual Living site is now live. The initial phase of this project is complete and the client seems pleased so far. They have been trying to re-create this site for close to 3 years and have had a couple of non-starts until now. The client initially contacted us on June 26, 2008. We responded to the RFP on July 8, 2008 and were awarded the project on July 15, 2008. At this time we put together a contract for the project and scheduled our first face to face meeting for July 24, 2008. From our first face to face meeting to the site going live was a span of approximately 8 weeks. We're looking forward to continuing development of this site in phase 2.

New Projects

Steampunk Webwerks has 2 new projects starting. We're creating a brand new site for a commercial painting company, Grund & Company, that has been in business for over 110 years. And we're also having an initial meeting with the folks at the Center for Spiritual Living in Seattle. We'll be redesigning their current site and moving it to Drupal.

Website Banner

Here's a banner I designed as the beginning of a website redesign for a friend of mine. He's not quite ready to go ahead with reimplementing his site using Drupal, but I'm hoping I can convince him to take the plunge soon. He is currently using the banner on his site.

Seattle Drupal Camp 2008...

The camp was a success. There were over 80 people in attendance over two days and lots of information was disseminated. I'd have to say my favourite tracks were the one Arthur Folesche gave on the Media Mover module and Gregory Heller's talk on Information Architecture. Although the scheduled speaker for the track on Ubercart was not present, it was still a good discussion and I learned a lot about what is and isn't possible. Lets just say that e-commerce is hard to do well, even with a strong platform like Drupal. I'm looking forward to getting more involved with the Drupal community in Seattle and plan to start attending the Seattle Drupal User Group meetings regularly.

Astarte Biologics Site Live

Our fourth project site, Astarte Biologics, went live today and the customer is pleased with the result. We spent about 6 hours on-site finalizing build out of the site content and doing some final data model tweaks. The final step now that the site is live is SEO work which will be an ongoing effort.

Finally

Steampunk Webwerks - We finally have our website up and running. We're currently working on a couple of projects and proposals. I'm working on a conversion and redesign of Astarte Biologics website. These guys needed an updated look and the ability to easily modify and add content without requiring much, if any, HTML knowledge. We're using Drupal to implement their new site.

Welcome

Welcome to my blog about the happenings at Steampunk Webwerks and specifically what I'm up to on our projects and technologies. As you may or may not be aware, we are dedicated to making the web a better place one website at a time. We are accomplishing that goal using a dynamite CMS tool called Drupal which allows us to deliver more value to our clients than a traditionally designed website. We put the content control where it belongs, in the hands of our clients.

I've been developing software for 19 years and have a wide range of experience. I've worked on a variety of hardware including Apple II, TRS-80, TI-99/4A, Apple Lisa, IBM System/36, IBM AS/400, IBM-RT, and IBM RS/6000 plus many more. I have experience with nearly all flavours of Unix (HP-UX, AIX, MIPS, Sequent Dynix, AT&T, NCR, DG-UX) as well as VAX and IBM mainframes, Linux (RedHat, gentoo, Ubuntu), OS/2, Windows 3.1/95/2000/2003 Server/XP/Vista and limited use of Mac OS/X. I have programmed in a plethora of languages as well including BASIC, JCL, RPGII, Pascal, C/C++, Visual Basic, Java, JavaScript, Informix-4GL, SGML, XML, HTML, CSS, XSLT, shell script, Flash, and others. I have developed applications against a variety of databases as well. The list of databases includes Informix, Oracle, MySQL, MSSQL Server, Cloudscape and MS Access.

Throughout my career in software development I have worked on a wide range of applications including Point Of Sale, Order Entry, Inventory Control, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, General Ledger, CASE Tools, Document Management and Authoring, Manufacturing Execution and Shop Floor Control/Data Collection as well as traditional and web 2.0 user interfaces.

As you can see I've had the good fortune to be exposed to and work with a ton of technologies across a wide range of industries. And of course this list is not exhaustive. I'm sure I could go on boring you for hours with all the cool stuff I've gotten to work on.

Hopefully I've provided a little insight into who I am, at least on the "professional" side, and you feel just a bit like you've actually met me. Oh yeah, I'm also a speed freak who loves riding fast motorcycles like the Yamaha YZF-R1. And I play the greatest sport on the earth, hockey.

Thanks for stopping by!

=Perry