Brent wrote:
> Well, this new contract of mine is certainly the bee's digital
> knees, as it were:
> designing an intranet from the ground up for a government
> department here in
> Canada. Mucho interactivity, user customization options, etc...
> it surely does
> sound like an exciting and enjoyable project, based on meetings I
> had this week
> with the client.
> What is most appealing about it (apart from the opportunity it
> gives me to tinker
> with a number of new techniques and devices) is the fact that,
> this being an
> intranet, I know *exactly* what every single user will be viewing
> my pages with.
> Whoa, what a concept! None of this worrying and fiddling to
> accommodate 8
> different browsers on 5 different OS's on 7 different connection
> speeds on 20 kinds
> of monitors (and supporting 97 different flavours of
> HTML/Java/Jscript/ActiveX
> etc)... just one homogenous group of users on a single LAN,
> running NS 4.x under
> NT. Monitors set at 800x600 or above. Java and cookies enabled.
> Et cetera.
Congrat's on the project, sounds like a fun way to explore some new things
in a "predictable" environment (until they decide to convert all users over
to some other browser for beaurocratic reason x, heh, heh).
> The client wants the finished site to "look and feel kind of like
> a Windows
> application" (well hey, I'm not going to argue)... this raises
> some interesting design
> possibilities. I'll be going bonkers with Java and Javascript,
> that's for sure.
You'll gain great experience with that project. Gonna have database
connectivity, too? Java server-side/client-side/both? Still be able to work
at home?
Jack
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