Sometimes a blog with thoughts and opinions by Dan Greene
Added March 11, 2026: Thanks to the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine for saving copies of things I worked on years ago.
I’ve been pretty busy spearheading the redesign on the UT Libraries site. (lib.utk.edu as it appeared in September 2007) It officially launched August 13th and it’s a slow process getting a site that big with dozens of people involved updated to a new design.…
May is almost over and I’m not sure where it went. Work has been going ok, the UT Libraries version of the new UT web templates should be ready in the next couple of weeks. Then the long and probably painful process of converting the libraries over to the new templates can begin.…
Added March 11, 2026: A reminder of the early days of podcasting.
I’ve been working on putting a podcast up for The Commons at work. Which is a little harder than it sounds. First I had to figure out podcast RSS feeds.…
Added March 10, 2026: I added links to older versions of the sites I was talking about here using Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. Otherwise this post was all dead links and no context.
When I started my job at Hodges, I knew 95% of the designs I came up would have to fit in the UT template which is heavy on text, brown/beige, and table based, with minimal CSS.(…
Well I’m starting to get settled in at Hodges. Still waiting on keys to my office, which may not matter since I may be moving offices anyway. Still don’t know quite what I’m doing yet, but I do know I’m the only person in Hodges whose sole job is designing web sites.…
July was a quiet month in Library Monk blog land, but a busy one in real life. I’m officially out of MU’s SISLT Ph.D program and our house is for sale.
I’ve accepted a job at Hodges Library, IT Technologist III in Library Outreach.…
I’ve applied for a job in Knoxville. No, I’m not going to tell you what it is, you think I want everybody applying for it? :-) It does tie in my web design skills and library background nicely and I hope I get the job.…