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News from May 2009

Hi, I'm new here!

May 28, 2009

Hi everyone, I’m the newest member here at lift.

Now to tell you a little bit about myself, I’ve been designing and building websites professionally for a little over 2 years. I’m all about growth and perfecting the sites I build and I believe lift is the best place to work. I look forward to taking on the many projects and challenges here at lift and hope that everyone will love the sites I produce.

HEY YOUR STUFF'S DONE

May 14, 2009

One of the stranger parts of my job is working on features that haven’t been completely nailed down yet – someone will say “users should get e-mailed when a new comment is posted”, but won’t say what that “new comment” e-mail should look like.

Some people would treat this as a challenge. I treat this as an invitation to liberally sprinkle outlandish messages throughout the feature that’s being worked on. Here are some examples:

“WOAH DUDE YOU JUST GOT COMMENTED ON”

“YOUR PHOTOZ ARE DONE UPLOADIN”

“I CHOOSE YOU, NEWS STORY! <link>”

..As a general rule, if something is in all caps and sounds ridiculous, I wrote it as testing content. When someone goes through to make the things I build look pretty, they typically remove the testing content and replace it with things like “Hey, you just got a comment!”, or “photo upload complete – view below”. This works fine, really – it’s very easy to see when there’s a feature that someone hasn’t looked over yet, because it will respond in ALL CAPS(and occasionally lolcat).

So if you ever get an e-mail from something we’re building for you and it looks a little strange, don’t fret – but you may want to remind one of us to take a look at the feature in question.

Project Management Window

May 1, 2009

We’ve built probably the best project management board ever. Well, maybe not the very best but we’re pretty proud. It utilizes the magical properties of static cling vinyl and as each project progresses we move it along the time line of Discovery to Design to Production. Look out projects, get ready to be managed!