Dave Aiello

Introducing HockeyRefCast

2008-10-01T21:18:16Z

I've just launched HockeyRefCast, a webcast about ice hockey officiating. Episode 1 is now posted and available for listening. It includes:

An introduction to the webcast,
Hockey officiating news from the Summer of 2008,
An interview with special guest, Referee Ian Walsh from the National Hockey League.

HockeyRefCast has been accepted into the iTunes Store Podcast Directory. You can subscribe to HockeyRefCast by following this link.

WeblogImprovement.com Relaunched

2008-06-23T03:51:23Z

Weblog Improvement is a consulting service that specializes in designing, developing, and supporting Movable Type and TypePad-based publishing systems. I started it in 2004.

Weblog Improvement website as
shown on Flickr.

I relaunched WeblogImprovement.com over the weekend by adopting a design based on the Universal Template Set from the Movable Type 4 Professional Pack.

I wanted to use as few plugins as possible in this design, so I could show the out-of-the-box power of Movable Type 4. I used Custom Fields to designate screen shots from my Flickr photostream that represent each site that I've worked on recently. Each client website is represented as a single blog entry.

]]> The entries describing client websites are part of the Weblog Improvement blog, but are filtered out of the blog part of the site through use of tags on each entry. Any blog entry tagged with the word "@client" is excluded from the blog index page and included in a special client index page.

The site's working very well and is a huge step forward from what had been there before. There's a slight CSS problem in the blog and client index pages right now that seems to manifest itself only on Safari. I hope to get to fix it this week.

New Websites for Cambridge Products Group and Sustainable Rooftop Solutions

2008-06-21T08:29:34Z

I designed and built two websites recently for a client of Weblog Improvement called Cambridge Products Group LLC. They are based in Whippany, NJ, near Morristown.

Cambridge Products Group LLC website as
shown on Flickr.

Sustainable Rooftop Solutions website as
shown on Flickr.

These are fairly simple websites that are built on the Movable Type Publishing System version 4.1 and a customized version of the Hemingway theme applied to the Classic Blog Template Set.

]]> These companies are related to each other, so they benefit from a similar look-and-feel. I'm sure you can see the similarities between these sites and DaveAiello.com. I built DaveAiello.com first, then extracted some of the best practices for things like Movable Type widget sets, and theme customization. I applied this know how to these two brand new corporate sites.

Hockey Officiating Podcast Under Development

2008-06-04T02:54:49Z

I'm starting to work on developing a podcast about hockey officiating which I hope to launch in September 2008. More details on this later this summer.

A New Look for DaveAiello.com

2008-05-13T16:23:31Z

I decided to rev DaveAiello.com to make it a showcase for more of my work. Let me know what you think of the layout.