Party Like It's 1997

I've ended up heavily involved in the Shiny New Website for our department, and what this is making abundantly clear to me is that I'm the functional equivalent of the oldsters who would call up $JOB-1 for support because they want to see their grandchildren's pictures on the Googles, and they know a computer is involved but that's about it. There are all sorts of concepts involving information design that are wholly oceanus incognitus for me: words like "wireframe" and "workflow" swirl around me like riptide currents. I am managing to keep my face mostly above water, though. Mostly.

Also, it is strange having to do with a WYSIWYG CMS thingy instead of just banging out a bunch of HTML tags in emacs. I mean, it's not just the fact that you make clicky for boldtext, but the whole difference in what a page or other elements might actually consist of. Not being able to directly manipulate files is turning my world upside-down.

Finally, I have been introduced to Software That Makes Pretty Graphs And Charts. I spent the afternoon making a charty thing. It looks...chartlike. Considering the software is Microsoft spooge, I think that probably constitutes a win.