O’ website, whereout thou?
What’s new with the website? We’ve gone, yet again, another direction with it. Yes, we’re still not done with the website (surprised? lol), but we have made significant headway with the project. Originally I had taken upon myself to build a website for MOYA. I am not a web developer by trade. I have a basic understanding of html and have all the tools needed in order to build and launch a website. Plus since I discovered Lynda.com, I was really starting to feel more comfortable with the project.
What changed?
Ben Miller our graphic designer in Seattle that we contract with had recently been improving his skills in the flash side of web development. He recently expressed his interest to continue his momentum and to build the new MOYA site. Since this has been my original hope to have a more dynamic site then the static site I was willing to settle with, I gladly stepped aside and gave the reigns to Ben. Ben’s plan is to use templates from flashden.net as the foundation and then manipulate the template to how we want it to reflect MOYA. Basically about 80% of the work has been taken care of that way is how Ben described it. We worked with Ben and purchased the templates we wanted to implicate and just left the rest for Ben to sort out.
Ben has been sending us progress reports and we have also been following along with his progress from where the site is temporarily hosted. This has been quite humorous actually. From Ben’s report, the coding wasn’t in English which I was unaware until now that that could be a factor when it comes to coding. Plus apparently one of the templates was not exactly coded in the way it was advertised to be. Ben believes he has put those “inconveniences” behind him and so far the site is coming together and functioning well.
Honestly, I am impressed on what Ben has accomplished so far. Not only is Ben working on the site and making good progress, he also sends us design concepts for new shirts/posters on a regular basis, contributes to our research and development team (Which sounds fancy, but it’s just the same guys that do everything else. It’s just fun to put it that way),….he also has a fairly demanding day job. Ben works for ArenaNet which is the developer of the MMO GuildWars and is currently busting out the next installment of the already award winning series. Ben says their goal is to make the next classic game which he strongly believes they will achieve. So for all you gamers out there (and I’m one as well), check out GuildWars II when it releases. MOYA tees and MOYA Enterprises LLC are not affiliated with ArenaNet though. We’re just throwing out props and a free plug for our good buddy Ben. It’s the least we can do.
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