So here’s what happened this week, the design group is currently working on mock-ups and color comps of the draft website. I have submitted two mock-ups and color comps this week. We are where we need to be according to the Gantt chart. In one more meeting we should have the basic design layout picked and then we will discuss color options. Once that is decided, we will hand it over to the front end coders to program, while we decide on which images to use from the CD bank of images that we have.

This is the first week of the project. The design team has been very busy with creating mockups, color comps, and communicating with the front end team. Tyler has done an excellent job with communicating and keeping our team on schedule.

During week 12 the design group got a good start on the work at hand and was able to accomplish several things. The first thing we did was sit as a group and discuss and view several other Youth websites to determine some things we knew we wanted. We were able to determine that we needed to find something simple that would allow the user to access each part of the site easily and without confusion. The website would need to be broken up into content for jobs, the community center, and the board of directors.

This week was the beginning of the project. As such, there was quite a few things to take care of. The design team is very focused and busy during the first portion of development. As part of the design team, I communicated heavily with the front end coders, the organization team, and my own team to decide how best to approach everything and what needed to be accomplished within the week's time. My team and I parsed through existing websites, garnering ideas and modifying or creating our own designs using thumbnail sketches.