Hello, World

Summary

Over the summer and through this fall, I have been helping redesign and develop the new website for the BG News, entitled "BG Views". The new website is going to be community based and will offer much more than the current website. Users will be able to create their own accounts to personalize everything to their own taste. With these accounts, they can post housing openings, add information on their favorite restaurants, add information on their business, post blogs, add events to the community events calendar, and more. Besides being able to access all of these new features, the BG News will be available on the site as well.

Duties and Responsibilities

While working on the BG Views website, I have performed the following tasks:

Created a mockup of the final website via Photoshop
Taught myself the basic understanding of CSS
Taught myself the basic understanding of the Joomla! software
Taught myself the basic understanding of the jReviews software
Coded a majority of the new template for use
Added all of the listing categories
Added all of the listing fields
Added many listings to each category
Installed LightWindow for use with images/YouTube videos
Upgraded jReviews 1.4 to the latest 2.0 version
Answered questions at the Fall 2008 Housing Fair
Created BG Views email accounts for all new BG News staff
Maintained the new BG Views Google Applications account
Designed a newsletter template for the BG Views email list
Designed a newsletter template for the Parents' Connection email list
Designed a newsletter template for the Parent & Family Programs events email list
Created a banner advertisement for Game Informer for use on BG Views
Created a banner advertisement for Nintendo Power for use on BG Views
Created a banner advertisement for PC Gamer for use on BG Views
Created a banner advertisement for Play for use on BG Views
Added categories to the BG Views Events Calendar
Added listings to the BG Views Events Calendar

Other tasks I have completed at the BG News:

Installed the Adobe Creative Suite on multiple new computers in the newsroom
Installed NewsEdit on multiple new computers in the newsroom
Installed fonts on multiple new computers in the newsroom
Disinfected the BG News file server from a Microsoft Word macro virus
- Disinfected every computer in the newsroom as well
Answered various computer/technology questions
Archived back issues of the BG News and posted them on the current website
Created a banner advertisement for the BG Buck$ coupons
- Created the web page for it as well
- Linked each listing on the table of contents of the PDF to it's page
Created a banner advertisement for the Hilton Garden Inn contest
- Created/maintained the web page for it and provided the Hilton Garden Inn with the results
Created a banner advertisement for the SBX $500 Giveaway
- Created/maintained the web page for it and provided the SBX with the results
Created a banner advertisement for the BGSU Spring 2009 Registration
Made backup copies of training DVDs/CDs for use in the newsroom