The gloves are on

photos captured by Staci Wolfe's Samsung cell phone

We've been forced to put the gloves on.

Seriously, it's subzero in the mulitmedia newsroom. Bryan, Kris, Lisa and I are freezing our fingers and toes off. Apparently, the thermostat they installed is just a gimmick. A cheap trick to make us think we have control over our climate, when in fact, we don't control it at all. So, we've been focusing on what we can control. Kris and Bryan have made significant progress with the administrative backend that controls and manages all the web site content. Impressive. I am thrilled with the video viewer. It allows us to add mulitmedia content (specifically, video) and preview it in a small window. It's all very slick.

Meanwhile, Lisa has been running various Blogger pages through the W3C online validator. I'll let her blog her thoughts and feelings about it.

Bryan and I have spent almost three days trying to learn Flash and produce a functioning, flashy top news piece for the homepage. The end of day three is near, and we have yet to get our flash masterpiece to function. Sure, it looks pretty, and we can even get it to pull slugs and headlines from the database of stories. However, making the animation and the dynamic information work together has been the bane of our existence. I need a break. I'm going back to puttering around with my CSS, at least that's something I can control.