Monday, August 6, 2007

Re-design WK3

We are well into the re-design project, and the new website is beginning to take shape. Basecamp is steadily guiding the project along, and new web 2.0 tools are helping at every step of the way. Especially useful is Fleck--a brilliant browser-based annotation engine that allows you to leave 'sticky' notes on websites, and share these notes with others. This proved to be the perfect solution when my GIMP files did not preserve their text layers when saved as .PSD files for the Adobe Suite our developer works in. Fleck has been amazing in bridging this gap--I can annotate a page with content changes, and the developer has cut-and-paste access to the copy. Fleck also provides a way for me to annotate mistakes, tweaks, and new ideas in a clean and easy-to-use interface. Although co-workers have been reluctant to adopt other 2.0 tools I've served up (read Del.ico.us, Google Docs, Mind42 Group Editing) Fleck's flexibility made it a no-brainer.

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