I’ve spent the week (well most of it) finishing off the design of the Campus Club website. It’s the first site I’ve designed since early in my PhD (aside from this one and it still needs work). I love playing with web design but I just don’t have much time. And because I don’t have much time, it takes me ages to remember everything. Someone suggested I have an eye for design, but I’m not sure. It usually takes multiple insights from other people to get it to a point that really looks good. Which is ironic, because I ask people what they thing and they say yeah, that looks good. My niece suggested on an earlier version that it needed more black. I think it wasn’t MySpace enough, but we ended with more green to evoke the bush feeling around the club. It’s a great place to have a few on Friday arvos.
The design still has to be passed by the committee, and it’s anybodies guess whether they will see it in the same light as Laurence (the manager) and me. Laurence actually had a lot of input into the colouring, which I think finally works well. Very earthy.
I’m also trying to finish the last few changes on a paper that’s been accepted to IJOB. I’m pleased the paper was accepted, but I’m not still not sure of the contribution it’s made. I suppose it’s mainly that it brings some disparate views together and highlights processes and strategies that could improve the use of email in organisations. I’m not sure why, but that’s the part I always get stuck on … my contribution to knowledge. I know I struggled with that in my PhD and just about all the other papers I’ve written (except for Wiki Pedagogy – see Wiki Pedagogy in colour that one was easy).
The reviewers want to see that part more clearly. Now if only I could see it myself.