Roz Savage, Ocean Rower

For the past few months, I’ve been working with ocean rower and environmentalist Roz Savage for a project at Archinoetics (where I work) called the RozTracker (an interactive mapping tool that plots her crossing of the Pacific Ocean). Recently, Archinoetics took over managing Roz’s website as well, and so I was charged with fixing a number of shortcomings and bugs with the site (incompatibility with Internet Explorer, lack of blog integration, etc.).  After much consideration (and some banging my head against the wall) we decided it would be prudent to re-do the entire site so it would be exactly what Roz had wanted all along.

So, I set out to build the new website using Wordpress, my favorite platform for web development. And, after a few days of design, some extra caffeine, and much less sleep than usual, I launched Roz’s new site. As Roz is in the middle of the ocean right now, she was able to only see a small screenshot that I emailed her (satellite modems are expensive and slow), though I’m confident she’ll love it when she gets back to land.

This has been a very exciting web development project for me, since it not only to support a cause I really believe in (Roz rows to raise awareness of climate change and other environmental issues), but her website also receives thousands of hits a day. It’s always cool when your hard work gets to be seen and enjoyed by people all around the world! So, check out the new Roz Savage homepage!