Friday, June 12th, 2009
I have been so busy with this gighive thing; I haven’t been able to make time for my own personal blog. I was supposed to be using it as a live journal for all the events and new updates to the “G”. Failed I have. Faaaailed I have…
Although I have a passion for the independent artist movement and love what I do, I have no other life beyond this. I hope to get back to writing and finishing my songs, but I have come too far to turn back now. So they will have to wait a little more.
On better note, the pieces are falling together and I am exceptionally happy with the results. I am personally working on many of the designs, re-tweaking the code, and restructuring the entire site just the way I want it. Nice!
Now that I am the webmaster of my site again, I did notice one thing I am delighted about. Our independent artist ads are doing really well… our other campaigns, not so good. It is something that I wanted all along for our site… to deal with only independent artist services, bands, music and art. It’s nice to know I was right all along and fans support the work of artists.
So am going to continue on my track to empower indie artists and build it on the gighive foundation. But for now it is back to work. Anyway
Follow the Journey…
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Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
Careful what you wish for, you just might get it. I have spent the last three months up to my eyeballs in css, php, variables, databases, JavaScript, arrays, if/else statements and everything you can think of when it comes to website design and php coding.
I am glad I at least learned some of the basics. I now have a new understanding on what goes on behind the scenes of my networking site gighive. I am able to do much of the design work myself and even write some of my own scripts. Well not my own, but I do a lot of tweaking to someones else’s code I paid for. So yeah, its my code : )
But things are just getting heated as I finish the work on many of the new pages. At least now that I am not paying for updates, I can hire some new writers for our independent artist blog and give my editor some much needed help. Nice!
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Thursday, February 26th, 2009
I spent the last year and half overseeing new updates and designs for the independent artist network GiGHiVE. Over that span of time, I have dealt with various webmasters and programmers. We made some progress, and at times I was very happy with the results.
But in the end, the basic vision of the site never came to past and I was left with a site that wasn’t quite up to par. Close, but not close enough.
So this time, while I am working with a new programmer, I have been quietly acquiring a new set of skills; designing and building my own networking site. Giving a new meaning to the words Start up, DIY and saving money. It wasn’t easy, but it seems the more I tinker the easier it gets. So while I am still waiting to launch GiGHiVE (Which is very soon) I am personally designing some of it main sections along with my editor; which includes our new blog The Buzz.
So stayed tuned for the official launch of the network.
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Saturday, December 27th, 2008
The time has come to make a choice, Mr. Anderson. Either you choose to be at your desk on time from this day forth, or you choose to find yourself another job. Rhineheart, The Matrix
Because you have been down there Neo, you know that road, you know exactly where it ends. And I know that’s not where you want to be. Trinity, The Matrix
This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill – the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill – you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes. Morpheus, The Matrix
Follow The Journey
Neo chooses the red pill...
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Thursday, December 25th, 2008
Nov. 24, 2008… We were all set to go with the launch of gighive. We painstakingly went over all the details months prior and you can say we were confident and ready. So what happened. We failed! But the good news, as a new start up we learned a valuable lesson. As a team we are only as strong as our weakest link. So you can say we are in the process of replacing that link.
Follow the Journey… Duane Charles
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