Magzalez’s eyes on media

Sports columnist Greg Cote inserted a cute little quip about his newspaper in a column about the Florida Marlins, their game last night and their playoff push:

The buoyant crowd of 23,165, seventh-biggest home gate of the year, found warring factions of fans vying for supremacy in the stands as their teams worked the diamond — the home side winning both ways.

Cody Ross delivered what proved to be the winning RBI single to right field in the eighth as the crowd roared, “Co-dy! Co-dy!”

Apparently it was a chant for Ross. For a second, I thought the crowd was chanting “Co-te! Co-te!” so that I might be inspired to make deadline.

(By the way, I hope this column made it to you OK, as these are austere times for a newspaper industry beset by drastic cutbacks. For example, I was recently made to give up my laptop and etched this column on small stone tablets transported back to the paper by night-flying carrier pigeons).

Oh that crazy singing sports writer is a funny one. Greg Cote and I got locked out of the Dolphins locker room together once at Dolphins training camp last year, true story. He asked me how to get in. I gave him the best “are-you-serious?” look I could. We eventually found our way in and laughed it off.

I love me a good Ciara reference.

I edited a video shot by Alligator feature writer Chantelle Marcelle. She did a very good job of getting all of the types of shots she needed. The only real problem was the audio on the interviews was not very good. It’s OK though because I only used one of the interviews. She made sure there was a story in the footage she gave me, which is a good thing.

The video is pretty fun. Not much to say about it. I love me a good fiddler.

I’ve been working on making a static XHTML/CSS version of the PhotoShop file of the site redesign. Everything is going pretty well. I have been able to adhere to the 960px grid system that I designed it on with success, and I haven’t had to unwillingly concede any part of the design so far.

The real stumper is as the rat race of templating and tweaking the CSS winds down, I am faced with the dilemma of choosing between WordPress – what I am using now – and TextPattern – what I am using on Cooking Matt. I will have to discuss this with some people. Each have their pros and cons. I already had one vote for TextPattern.

Catch the reference?

Just sent out from the University of Florida Web Administration office:

WebAdmin is looking for a student Web assistant. This position is part time during school, and can be full time during the summer if you are so inclined.

You: Enjoy developing and managing HTML/CSS standards compliant Web pages, Web servers, etc. Aren’t afraid to use the command line to get things done. Would like to work closely with designers and developers on cool Web site projects. Are looking for a challenging job where you’ll have the opportunity to solve problems and learn new skills while maintaining production Web sites in a real-world team environment.

Us: The Office of Web Administration provides Web site support and development for the university’s Web presence and critical path Web sites including: ufl.edu, president.ufl.edu, news.ufl.edu, trustees.ufl.edu, and many more! We are looking for a student Web assistant to manage and maintain professional quality Web pages and Web sites.

If you think this is a great match, please email your resume and a brief description of your development skills to webmaster [at] ufl [dot] edu with subject “Student Web Assistant Position.”

This position is only open to UF students!

Thanks,
Joe Spooner
Web Developer
Web Administration

Check it out, I mean, I don’t mind it. Check out the Web Admin blog while I’ve got you here.

I am redesigning this blog and the rest of magzalez.com! I know I just redesigned this place about 8 months ago, but my design skills are improving and besides, I’m coming up on a new chapter of my life — post graduation.

I still have some work to do. I have to design the full-blog portion of the site, galleries, resume, etc. I just wanted to get the overall look out in the wild.

Do me a favor and criticize it. Tell me what’s good and what’s bad. I want to have this out in a little over a month, maybe before September starts. I still have a couple of other projects on my plate — namely cookingmatt.com for my summer class.