This week was, to be honest quite crazy. All of the projects culminated this week, and it resulted in a huge lack of sleep. Fortunately, for our English project, everything finally started to come together. This week, we completely rewrote the "manage content" portion of the website in order to streamline the process of creating, editing, and deleting pages. With our original design, it would have proved impossible to add new sections to the site, once the initial design was finalized.

After Thanksgiving Break with limited computer and internet access, we got back to work on the CFRC website. One of the first things I did was to continue working with the front end team to get the CSS designed for our website. While we had already started this the previous week, a lot of work remained to be done in order to fine tune it, make it compatible in multiple browsers, standards compliant, etc.

For Week 14, I was finally able to begin most of the debugging. After the ridiculous delays caused by switching servers several times and not having an adequate testing server, I debugged the pages I had previously created. The jobs section of the website should be fully functional now, so that the admin can add, edit, or delete a job from the database. The "View Jobs" page is still functional and ready for the front-end team to take it away and add functionality such as JavaScript to hide jobs until a user clicks on it to expand the content.

Over the course of the last week, we had to deal with a vast array of problems. For starters, no error messages could be displayed on the new server that the client requested we design on, other than a generic error 500. In addition, due to weird Purdue security settings, we were not able to access the database on campus, and were forced to deal with it off campus. After getting frustrated with this and not hearing anything back from the client or service provider about the possibilities of fixing any of this, we moved the site back to its original location on David Auble's server.

For our first week on the project, we started by listing the tasks that needed to be accomplished by the server-side Backend Coding team. The specific goals David, Josh, and I came up with included a secure PayPal link that we can include on a donations page created by the Design team and a portal. The portal was further broken down into several sub-sections, including Job Applications, a Volunteer Management System, the Board of Directors log-in system, and essentially a Content Management System (CMS) for the entire site.

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