Scott Nixon

• Systems Administrator
  • Strong background with all technologies necessary to build and deploy web applications.
  • Web developement
    • Casual experience over about a 10 years
    • Programming: ASP, Coldfusion, and Django
    • HTML, CSS, Image editing, JavaScript
• What where some of the problems with HH?
  • We wanted to do more than WP could easily accommodate.
  • Slower load times(too many things, from too many places, fighting to be downloaded by your browser)
  • Is Wordpress flexible? Yes, as a blog and a very simple CMS.
  • Wanted a new logo, and improve overall sites look and feel
  • Recipes locked in the blog post
• Goals for HH redesign
  • Wanted to be more than a Blog
  • Speed
  • Flexibility with design and data
• What did we do?
  • Worked with a designer to create a logo first and then had them design the reset of the page.
  • We did not use an existing CMS.
  • Do I learn php, use my coldfusion skills, or something total different.
  • Do I use a CMS and learn out to build things on top of it? Time consuming too…
  • Total different: Django is a web framework based on python.
  • Consolidated: CSS and JavaScript into one file
• Amazon Web Services
  • CloudFront gives us global distribution of media
  • Multiple datacenters in the US and across the globe
  • All media is distributed through CloudFront: images, css, and javascript
  • End result SPEED!

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