Welcome to the first post of the new project blog!
To kick things off, I’ll recap the most recent project: ZDMedia finally has a website. I’ve debated on a good approach to what the website should be since buying the domain 2 years ago, until I realized the answer had been staring me in the face for the last 2 decades. I’ve worked on a lot of web and computing projects, including starting many of my own short-lived websites and helping friends figure out how to kick off their own. I’m no professional with it by any means, but that’s exactly why I do it: to learn with hands-on experience. Over the years using design software, and building computer-based electronics projects that needed names, I’ve come to use “ZDMedia” as a stand-in business name any time I need to brand something. It references my first website, “Zora’s Domain”, which was a Zelda fan site I built in 2002. It became a habit, but I never figured out exactly what I could cohesively turn it into until now.
Instead of just branding my miscellaneous projects with ZDMedia (a brand that’s become like a personal alias), I decided the website should be the perfect place to bring all of my projects together under one umbrella. In the past year, ZDMedia has expanded beyond just myself; I’ve partnered with Jeff to build an infrastructure around Jefflix, and we’ve built a team of contributors to help support that server infrastructure. Jefflix is Jeff’s brainchild (hence the name), while the ZDMedia team helps to make it possible. With that in mind, I built the new website around the idea that it should serve as a portal to all of my ZDMedia-branded projects as well as unify everything the team collaborates on for Jefflix.
Guests to the site have links to all of the publicly branded projects: the FrequencyX scanners, the Retrosyde Archive YouTube channel, and this tech blog. There’s more available to registered users, but that option is only open to friends, family, and those who are part of Jefflix. Our goal with the tech blog is to chronicle some of the interesting things we encounter along the way building stuff, and hopefully visitors can learn from our experiences as well. I’ve found that Organizr is a great web app for organizing a ton of web applications into one handy index, so it made the perfect framework for what I needed ZDMedia to be. Like nearly everything we do the website is an on-going project, so I’m always brainstorming new things to add for visitors to enjoy. If you’re reading this, thanks for stopping by!