Great news, and for those of you following me on twitter – old news!

To cut to the chase, the new project I have been given by OpenOn is for a French ‘erotic film’. The site is to have live streaming webcasts, biographies of all the actors and crew, call sheets, video libraries, image galleries, forums, chat – in short quite a few things.

This I was given yesterday at about 4pm. It’s due live on Friday…

So last night I was mocking up in Photoshop and this morning I got a barrage of email’s from the client on specifications and finer details, that it would have been useful to have yesterday before I actually did the mock-ups for the site.

Back into Photoshop…

By 10:00am I was emailing the clients speculative mock-ups, and diving into Joomla! to try and get the bare bones of the CMS in shape and sort out the IA of the site. After that was done I started creating a Joomla! template and adding the relevant modules to the site, I must admit I haven’t used Joomla! much but i can’t say I’m impressed… I suspect a lot of the problems I am having is due to a lack of familiarity but my first impressions are it is outdated, bulky and slow.

At around midday i get a Skype call from the client…

They love my mockup!

The journalist thought it was GREAT (capitals his), the web editor loves it and the director and writer is very, very impressed (and apparently this is a very, very rare thing).

So I’m rather pleased, it’s nice when people like your work. It’s even nicer on such a tight deadline. By the time I left the OpenOn offices this evening the majority of the work is done and the editors and writers are adding copy. The domain hasn’t changed over to the new site yet but when it does it will be found at www.q-lefilm.com.