today

I haven't been home long tonight, it has been another long for the most part less than productive day. at least I was able to see students of mine who I have been teaching for the last five years take another very big step in to their future. a thing that can never be under estimated. I am very tired and looking forward to a couple of days when work is not handed to be with the expectation that it will be completed in minutes as has been the case over the last few days. administering an education based web site is largely thankless task but at least today I saw a few soon to be ex-students move forward, and that perhaps that should be thanks enough.

I am as surprised as you are............

I am not sure what is going in the tiny little design mind I have. it wasn't more than a few weeks ago that I was talking about how I was using powerpoint again. I have justified that to myself as a very necessary evil, as part of teaching.today I had a productive 2 hour meeting concerning a website design project that I have been working on for a while. I left the meeting having agreed to create a splash/entry page probably using flash, though I will have a think about that.

a few years ago I would have refused to even consider such a thing!
all the usability studies suggest that these pages detract even alienate visitors but I am think perhaps not now, with better internet connections and faster processors perhaps now is the time to revisit preconceived ideas and do it properly, that or I have just gone a little mad!