So to speak. I spent more than my last year at Bowdoin working towards a complete redesign of the college’s website – not just the physical appearance, but the content authoring and editing processes, the content management system that those processes run on, the news gathering and publication process, the ‘flow chart’ of the site, the design, the software that delivered things like course listings, faculty homepages, course pages, and more. It was a TON of work, and there was a lot of sometimes very uncomfortable political and personnel issues to work through as well. We were 90% done when I left, all that remained was to actually roll it out, and I had 17 students working for me on just that (and we were mostly done, though we had done all the easy stuff first, the remaining 10% was going to be the hardest parts). Anyway after I left they submitted the site to the annual webbyawards. We didn’t win, but we did get honorable mention, which you can scope out at the webbyawards site. Despite not winning, and despite the fact that more than 100 sites got honorable mention, I’m still really proud of this. I’m also envious of my coworkers at Bowdoin, who got a 40GB ipod as a reward for their labors. I teased them about it ‘come on, where’s mine!’ and they teased me right back ‘you bailed, you get nothing!’

d’oh!

It’s all about timing. As usual mine’s no good.