P.M. Reading Week 1/11/07

This was our first reading week, which seemed to be more of a pressured situation than being at college. I have worked from home before and I always feel a tendency to work harder, than if I were at work or college.

Julian and myself managed to catch up with the client and I found out that my none returned emails was nothing to do with being ignored, but I had a problem with my email as they were appearing blank to the recipient.

Mark told me that he was sending them back to me but they were just bouncing back to him, I had several "live chats" with my host and they told me that there was nothing wrong. I had changed my email client to Mac mail to try and be more organised. This obviously backfired and I had to revert back to Entourage, I have not had any more problems so I will stick with this in the future.

We had our meeting with Mark and the marketing department and I finally got to see some of the content for the web site, I asked for this to be sent to me via my other email address, but it has still yet to appear.

We talked through the skeleton site which Chris had done in preparation for the meeting, we discussed having a dummy banner ad to encourage sponsorship, as this is a long term goal for the site. Mark seemed happy with the progress so far so I asked him to sign the client sign off sheet which he did. We also discussed the need to re-shoot the rugby and football teams training so we could have all the players wearing the official kit as it would show a more cohesive look to the finished site, and would ultimately work better as a marketing tool for the course.

Returning home we attempted to have an MSN production meeting, which in theory seemed like a good idea, but in reality was a real pain. It was really unproductive and a waste of time, I am not a fan!

I then re-sent all of the failed emails out to both Harriet and Mark to explain what had happened and to get things back on track. The main thing that is slowing the production process down at the moment is the lack of content, but things will hopefully improve as I as have now received 2 player profiles!