ArghWebWorks

The hyperdesk site is finally live. It’s been a long road of about eight months of nightly work. Once the client was satisfied that the html(link)/css he wanted was out of my league ( way out of my league ) he had another company set up the html(link) and CSS(link) (Cascading Style Sheets) and start up the javascript.

Their work with mootools was a lot smoother than my work with prototype.

The site owes a lot to mootools.net, PEAR and smarty. I went with using the Pear libraries for database access, the Smarty tools for templating and the mootools for javascript. I’ve built a secondary site at hyperdesk themes that’s using the same stuff and also the blueprint css(link) libraries. Once nice thing about building a site for myself ( or to my own standards ) is that while I can say “this is ugly” ( the animation is currently ugly ), I can also say “make this better via the blueprint grid.” and not “move this over 2 pixels, no too far!”

How does one “become more competitive?”

Competetiveness is a virtue of companies. Basically, people who believe in it consider that there’s a limited amount of income available ( or public attention or whatever ) and they’re driven to get “their fair share” or “most of what’s out there.”

Here’s a list of values a client poses for his company. It’s not my list, but I think it’s an interesting one to look through:

• Creative in approach to solving problems
• dedicated to his own ideas
• high value on time
• competitive
• thinks big
• forward thinking/future oriented
• innovative

I like to think t hat I’m dedicated to my own ideas, innovative and creative with regards to problem-solving. However, I’m not sure I place a high enough value on time, or that I think big enough. As far as “competitive,” don’t make me laugh.

How does one groom oneself to become more competitive?