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just finished usmagazine.com (well, 2.5 weeks ago

September 23rd, 2009 by Holly

usmagazine.com

Category: News

Topic: celebrity news

Year created: 2009

Overall rating: 4 out of 5

Content rating: 3 out of 5

Design rating: 4 out of 5

Navigation rating: 4 out of 5

We just finished the first phase of this site – usmagazine.com. most of the design and development was performed by funnygarbage, where we, at wenner, provided direction and support.

It is very cool, though. First site I’ve built with symfony. It is too early, really to make any snap judgements on the framework, though. We have another couple of months, at least before users get used to it and traffic resumes to a pre-redesign level – at least that is how it went for the last redesign, which wasn’t half as drastic.

What I am looking forward to most, though, is bringing more social features into the site – ratings, click streams, recommendations, whatever.

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Brooklyn sunsets

September 13th, 2009 by Holly

some sunsets from the past spring/summer

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vacation – VA/SC/GA

September 13th, 2009 by Holly

Just got back from a pretty nice vacation – in this order: Williamsburg, VA – Hilton Head, SC (base camp) – Savannah, GA – Charelston, SC – Hilton Head, SC (chilled for a day) – Williamsburg, VA – back to Bkln, NY (9 days)

: Hilton Head beach

: kingsmill sunset1

: kings mill sunset 2

: kings mill sunset 2

: kings mill sunset 4

: hilton head trees

: savannah square 1

: Savannah Square w/ Amy

: from w/i the griffin tea room

: Baked, Charleston – nice wall…

: charelston, sc pineapple fountain

: rooftop lounge

: hilton head bearch – perfect weather

: hilton head dusk

: hilton head evening – phone cam can’t handle it

: hilton head beach dusk 3

: hilton head beach eve1

: kings mill sunset friday eve

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Usmagazine.com relaunch

September 9th, 2009 by Holly

Last week we launched the newly redesigned usmagazine.com… Has a cool new look and it’s backend is much more structured which should make it easier to create new sections/features down the road as well as keep everything much “cleaner” code-wise. It is now built on a much better framework (IMHO) that uses MVC principals much better than the old site’s framework.

I am pushing to add user registration on the site next… as soon as all the wrinkles have been ironed out of this first iteration of the new site, hopefully.

I feel like there are still some performance issues but no one but me seems to be noticing anything. I’m definitely going to look into it more when I get back from a long deserved (IMHO) vacation…

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A Holly Sphar is (I am) an artist and information technologist who lives in Brooklyn, NY. By day, he is (I am) Web Development Manager for Wenner Media (Us Weekly, Mens Journal, Rolling Stone). For kicks, he (I) work(s) on various art projects, web projects, looks into new web technologies, hangs w/ his (my) wife and dog, explores NYC (actually, he likes Brooklyn a bit more), etc,

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