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My Opus

Posted by Trevor in Uncategorized on Jul 16th, 2006 | View Comments |

The only project I’ve worked on of any note since arriving in country has been the Multi-National Force Iraq web site. I am the webmaster. While I perform other missions, including reporting activities, press escorts, etc. none of them will have any lasting impact.

Since I took over the web site administration, we have redesigned the product twice. The newest redesign is a dynamic multi-user site that is scalable and I hope professional looking. It should vastly improve our ability to deliver news and feature stories from the perspective of the coalition.

This project is the one thing I have done that here I’m uneqivocally proud of. It’s my attempt to improve efficiency and accuracy in telling our story. Telling our story is my raison d’etre.

This current redesign had six or seven people involved at the actual working level and many more involved in the creative process. It took us about five months from concept to inception. I hope it survives the test of time and helps us all tell the world our story better than we were able to before.

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Trevor

Miss Birdlegs,

Thank you for your support. I'm glad the web site and newsletter are appealing to you. They represent many hours of my life :)

MissBirdlegs in AL

Trevor, I subscribed to the MNF-I newsletter and I have thoroughly enjoyed it. It's eye-catching and very well organized. I've passed it along to my e-mail buds and they've enjoyed it, too. You've done really good work, sorry you're tired to the bone & feelin' it. I know it can't compete with N. GA, but just know that your work is appreciated!

Trevor

Alisa,

Thanks for your vote of confidence as well. :) The whole goal of the site was to eliminate clutter while improving scalability and adding a dynamic backend that would ensure we could post our content from any web browser. We've achieved those things, I hope.

Trevor

Greyhawk,

Thanks for the kind words. Much needed. You're right, I'm on the end of a very long spate of 12-14-16 hour shifts. My spirit is low a lot.

Your advice is sound and appreciated.

Greyhawk

Trevor - that's a great looking page, by far the best I've seen in the DoD.

Will it last? Nah, the next guy will want to make his mark too.

You are deep in the doldrums of the rotation (been there, done that, will again) and it shows in many of your current posts. I don't mean to be harsh, far from it. This is how it is, and if I guess right it's becoming increasingly hard for you to sit down and post blog entries. No surprise there, it's the cycle every deployed milblogger goes through.

In the end, you'll have created one man's view of the Iraq experience. You've shared that - in one of the finest voices I've encountered from theater - with a goodly number of good people who won't ever experience it first hand. Good or bad, that will stand longer than the pixels you put together for MNF-I.

Aside from that, in the real world, you've done your bit. You've made history while others made noise. And no matter where you go from here, you'll find it's a new chapter in life with abundant opportunities for success or failure. You are familiar with failure, of course - since all wars are a series of failures culminating in victory. So when you get the opportunity to call your own shots, focus on success.

Keep on keepin' on.

alisa

I think the layout is fantastic. It's easy to navigate through and you're not pummeled with too much garbled information on the home page. The font you chose is also great as it is larger and easy to read on a monitor. Well done!