Tasks In Gmail? Check It Out!

The good folks at Google have added yet another productivity enhancement tool to the world of Gmail - introducing Tasks in Gmail.

Everyone of us manages tasks in one way or another. Some use paper, others rely on remembering every little task. If you have trouble managing your To-do list, or you are looking for another way to track your tasks, and you have a Gmail account all you have to do is enable tasks (check under 'Settings' in Gmail or see this page for instructions on how to enable Gmail Tasks and from their the rest is simple!

This is yet another example of the many free apps from Google. Do yourself a favor and check out Gmail Tasks. With a simple, clean interface this product can be used by anyone...from the 'uber-geek' to 'soccer-mom'.

New Site Launched

Notch Above Tours has been launched. visit Notch Above Tours

The site uses an accordion-style menu for quick navigation. It has 6 lead-generating contact forms, completely custom slideshow-header (easily editable), custom graphics and lots of easily navigated tour information!

New Website Launched

I began working on a new website about a week ago for The Green Mountain Baseball League.

The Green Mountain Baseball League resides in Vermont and is an 18 + Wooden Bat Baseball League. The league has 8 teams.

The site went live on Thursday May 1, 2008.

A few requirements from the client:
1) the site needed to go up quickly
2) the cost of building must be kept low
3) the cost to maintain/update the site must be kept low
4) the client needed a way to manage multiple lists in spreadsheet form
5) needed maps to seven Vermont baseball fields

The project started out with four pages in mind. The four pages quickly turned into twelve.

The Green Mountain Baseball League website uses Google Docs for the spreadsheet resource. This way the league can use one login (or multiple if wanted)(must be Gmail accounts) to maintain the spreadsheets (the have the baseball game schedule as well as team contacts and umpires in spreadsheet form). The spreadsheets are iframed into the site pages meaning that all the client has to do is login to Gmail, click 'Documents', select the document to edit, make the changes, and click "re-publish document" and the changes will reflect on the live site. No HTML/CSS or JavaScript experience needed! Good ol' Google - they sure know how to make things easy! See the game schedule page here Green Mountain Baseball League Season Schedule

The maps to the baseball fields are a result of embedding Google Maps into each field location page. See one here - Map Mount Mansfield Union High School The maps use iframe to embed the maps into the pages. Driving directions can be entered from within the iframe. Directions open in a new window (tab). Users can switch between satellite view or map view. The default is satellite view.

The site is built using the latest XHTML standards. The pages have been tested using Internet Explorer 7, Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14, Opera and Safari for windows.

The site uses Google Analytics to track visitors.

Future possibilities: individual team pages? sure, each team could have it's own 'section' of the GMBL website. There could be team rosters (with pictures), photos from games, spreadsheets to maintain statistics etc...the only problem being cost. The cost would need to come from each team directly as I don't think that there is much money in the league budget to sustain paying me to update each team page. Just an idea....

New Website Design In Progress

Notch Above Tours

Working on a new website....Notch Above Tours: Founded in 1993, Notch Above Tours is a Vermont-based, full-service Tour Company providing an incredible range of motorcoach tours and tour design services. Our tours feature fascinating locations throughout the United States and Canada.

click the image or here to view the new website

click here to view the old site (unless of course the old site has been replaced by the new site)

• view this website design project

The Acutal Video: Stormtrooper In Love

New Video : Stormtrooper In Love

okay, so this really doesn't have anything to do with designing websites...

Three young space lovers caught in an intergallectic struggle between good and evil. Watch as "The Princess", "The Stormtrooper" & "Hansome Solo" find out that love, even in space, can be deadly!

Stormtrooper In Love :: Released in 2008 - An animated, action/adventure-love drama from the critically acclaimed director/producer/writer - jHead.

See Stormtrooper In Love

check it out on YouTube

New Site Launched

I launched http://www.McKennedy.org at the beginning of January. The site is basically a holding place for my artwork (photography, video, music, web design etc..) and anything else I can think of.

One of my plans is to take 1 photograph every day (I am calling this gallery "Things I Saw") and at the end of every month I will post a gallery of photos. The first image of this series was taken on January 7, 2008.

So far I have not had any trouble finding an image to use daily but I image that since I travel the same route everyday (to work) I might run out of subjects to shoot. Hopefully this will not become the case and if it does it would be quite sad because what would that say about the time spent going to work, as well as being there? That there isn't anything worth photographing?