Internship Journal

After many attempts and missed opportunities I got an internship at Back40 Design.  This stretch of email tag and opened and closed doors to try to get it to this spot has lasted for almost a year.  Finally with a little help from Ms. Whitfield I got a hold of Stacy and got an interview.  The interview went extremely smooth and I instantly felt comfortable with their questions and their personalities.

After a couple of days I sent in a follow-up letter thanking them for the interview and their time.  That next week I received an email from Stacy saying I had the job!  On my first day I sat down with Reyna going over a new in house CMS called Javelin.  I knew from that point that this wasn’t going to be all that bad.  Javelin is an awesome tool to simplify and speed up the process of applying content to pages.  I have learned the process that page goes through, from the first meeting with the client to the final launch of the website.  Javelin makes this process so much easier, giving the client the power to change their site anytime they would like.

Javelin uses something called modules.  After the page is designed and made into a JPG, Scott will slice it up and apply a layout using some pretty lengthy CSS.  After that point the developers will apply the modules to where they are supposed to be on the page.   That’s where I have been coming in adding the right modules in the spots pre-marked for me.  I take content that is given to us by the client and I insert it into the page.  It can be a word document or an image, or a form.  Pretty much anything you would think would be in a web site.  They have a system and it worked like a well oiled machine.

Right now they have about 20 different sites they are working on and you would think that would be a lot but everything works so smooth that you would never really notice that you are busy.  So for my first week I have learned a new CMS and I am getting really good at adding content to pages.  I am looking forward to the up-coming weeks where I should be getting a lot more challenges.

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