Web Architecture Reboot

As you can see, the Web Architecture Reboot (WAR) Room is all set and ready to go. Since this will be my first full week in the WAR Room, I thought I'd give you a glimpse of our work-spaces and give you a window into the lives of the Word of Life Web Team:



We'll start with Nathan. He likes a clean desk with a lot of monitor viewing space. The key thing to notice here is the red and gray Stewart's travel mug. While only one is pictured here, he owns no less than 4 (with up to three being in the office at any one time). Caffeine (apparently) plays a major role in giving Nathan the passion necessary to meet the challenges of this immense project.


John Yarosh is next. You'll notice that he uses his desk space to lay out things that he is working on or needs to get done (obviously a visual thinker). Again, notice the two wide-screen monitors in front of him. This allows him to work on layout and look-and-feel without having to switch back and forth between different windows. Also notice the MacBook Pro (you can see the screen peeking out from behin his right shoulder) on his right. We all know that truly creative people use Macs...


We'll finish off with my desk. The key thing to notice is the stand on the left (usually used for holding pages that you need to look at for quick reference) featuring a picture of the Mario Brothers dominating some bad-guys with turnips just like they used to do in Mario Bros. 2 (the picture is titled "Turnip Death"). This serves as my inspiration on most days.

On a slightly more serious note, we officially have our new system in the building! It didn't come with a cool box or a flashy intro movie (I guess that's the price you pay when something is custom built for you) but it was definitely a big step. Right now we're working to get the system up and running on our servers so we can kick it into high gear and start cranking out websites. They won't be viewable by the public until our "go live" date of August 1st, but hopefully, we'll have everything built and ready to go beforehand. Then we'll move everything "online" (so to speak) once everything is working on our own servers.

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