The ESA – New Skills Courtesy of Enigin
Today has been one of those days, the sort of day that you really feel you have achieved something. This, of course, is not to say that most days I feel I have been wasting my time! But today we have been trying to finalise the look and content of the ESA website for the New Year, really getting down to the nitty gritty and making the choices and decisions that will make all the difference.
As you will know from previous blogs, as a Council Member, Enigin has a part to play in making it all happen, and I have to make sure that we do our bit. So today I have been liaising with all the other Council Members, literally all around the world, to make sure that everyone’s ideas have been discussed and included wherever possible. This has been an interesting exercise as we now all have so much to offer and so many thoughts on how things should work.
It’s not just a question of what we should be providing for the members (based on their feedback), but also how it should look, how it will work, how it will link together and what is actually possible!
It’s all really under one enormous umbrella, called “content”. To me (not too savvy regarding website building) this meant agreeing the types of information, news, articles etc we need to have and who was going to provide what. But of course, that is just naïve, it is also all about how we make it all work – and this is where the clever people are needed. Coders and designers.
Here at Enigin we have some of the best guys in this line of work but I have always simply enjoyed the fruits of their labours, rarely venturing into their kingdom as I frankly don’t speak their language. Today I have crossed that line, and begun my education.
These guys are responsible for the many software programmes and websites that we at Enigin depend on, and which are key to our success, so who better to ask for advice and a rapid tutorial. Today I have been finding out just what can be done, and trying to feed this back to my ESA colleagues on all continents. Not easy, but we have agreed and built a brief and have decided who we can use to get it underway.
I should have lots to report over the next few weeks as we approach the turn of the year and ideas have crystallised into reality, so watch this space.
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