Hey everyone, well it’s Sunday, just about 1 week since I announced my website in a week challenge and I’m glad to say, eatkauai.com beta is up and running! It was a very tiring week finishing an entire website from start to finish in one week but I think it will be a very valuable resource to the people of Kauai. Currently, we only have a few menu listings but we plan to continue to [...]

It’s 12:56am Friday morning. I finished 99% of the first version of the website Thursday. The only thing left to do is customize the submission form for submitting menus and some SEO stuff. I moved the site to the production server and began testing. There was a few snags on the import, some of my localhost settings came over which created some 500 server errors but I got those taken care of quickly with the [...]

I have the home page and category pages working in wordpress. There are just a couple little tweaks that need to be done and styled before I move the site to the production server. Very exciting! It will be in maintenance mode while I continue to tweak the plugins and settings until its ready to launch. I’m so happy with all the positive feedback I’ve received on this project. Thank you to everybody. Please join [...]

I didn’t get a chance to post an update of the progress of the website yesterday. I have the html templates coded up for both the front page and category page. Those are ready to be brought into wordpress. I also started programming the menu submission form. There was a really cool WordPress Plugin that I found that does pretty much exactly what I was looking for called TD Mini Forms. Started working with that [...]

Man I’m a little rusty with CSS. I got the homepage layout pretty much coded up in HTML. Will be working on the subpage layout tomorrow and hopefully getting into wordpress integration. Once again, follow on twitter if you got it, http://twitter.com/eatkauai

This is the first update for the development of eatkauai.com. I thought up the idea with my girlfriend in June of ’09 and this video shows what I got done since then. Basically I got a bunch of stuff done in June then forgot about it until this weekend where I dug up my files and started working on it again. Hope to have another video at the end of the night showing what got [...]

Yesterday I teased that I would be starting on a new project today so here it is. The project is Eatkauai.com, a online directory of menus from restaurants around the island. Here’s the breakdown. Problem: Whenever my girlfriend and I want to go out to eat, we have trouble deciding where to go, and figuring out what restaurants are serving. Especially when putting in take out orders, we usually end up ordering the same thing [...]

One of my biggest problems is remaining focused on my current project. I think it’s a problem that many entrepreneurs deal with. I’m constantly seeing problems around me and thinking up solutions to these problems. For the most part, I’ve done a good job of keeping myself focused. I’ll launch a side project here and there and let it die. Getting them up at least lets me tell myself, ok you did that one get [...]

When I first began as a web designer about 5 years ago, the career choice creating websites for clients didn’t seem like a bad idea at all. At my first job, it was not uncommon to bill clients in excess of $5,000-$10,000 for a simple html website. It was easy to run a profitable business with a large enough client list. These days are pretty much all but gone now, sure there are still web [...]