I finished with pro bono client The Tri-State Community School for the Arts, a start-up non profit arts school in the Cumberland, MD area. I’m really happy with the flash photo effects and the overall look. It’s kind of a blue explosion, but the director seemed to enjoy the color choice. Hoorah! Trying to figure out the best/cheapest way to require payment for online registration. It’s a lot of scripting I don’t have experience with, plus–according to Brian, apparently there’s startup AND monthly fees for running httpS:// security, which is a requirement if your site is receiving credit card info. I’d like to help them sidestep that hassle by utilizing a middleman, especially since no one involved understands it, and I barely do myself. We might be back to square 1 with a PayPal “Pay your goddamn fee” solution not unlike what the client had before. There are ways to spruce it up and make payment *look* required without its systematically *being* required to run the JS registration form. With this, the client would still have to keep separate lists in Excel or whatnot of who’s registered versus who has paid, and then reconcile the two lists. But if there is a “Pay your fee” on the same page as Registration, I feel like a larger majority of folks will go ahead and do it at the time of Registration because they won’t know it’s systematically *not* required for the “Submit” command.
On the laptop front, I’m still leery of downloading all my old programs because there are still spam and funky moments reminiscent of the grand virus era.
On the personal front, I have a couple exciting summer & autumn trips either planned or still in planning stages:
1) Camping in August with those Laurel goobers. 2) Ocean City weekend with the auntie and potential guest, 3) Potential road trip to Indianapolis to stay with Stepherz. Opening for a roadie. 4) Potential road trip to Nashville, since my last trip was disastrous and our plans were foiled. Also has opening for a roadie.
