So this week we've been able to get everything uploaded and to the server, with the frontend people coding some basic HTML from a CSS-driven template created by Mark. From here they've started a basic homepage and have started creating some of the other sub-pages. I will have to go back and change several of the pages to reflect the dynamic content the admins enter from the portal, but I'm not worried about that.

Thus far, we've made pretty big advances in the site, yet there's still a lot to do. As it stands, we have the template down for the basic pages, and now it's a matter of getting the content into the pages, as well as getting the links working, and all of next week can be finishing touches. It's going to be a close scrape, but I think we just might be able to finish it in time.

I would say that this was another slow week for the design team. We did not have much to do other than cropping and adjusting images.

On Monday we talked about what we had left to do and worked a little on the banners. We tweaked a couple of images to the right size 720 by 290 pixels and picked a couple of images that would be good for the banners on each page.

This week we made a lot of progress on the front end work. After getting some much needed info on CSS layouts, the web page quickly came together on Monday. We got together with the back end and the designers and made a lot of progress on Monday. We got the colors to appear correct and got the text boxes in the right placement according to the design the client picked.

This week has been much different than previous weeks in that our organizational team had to focus on helping frontend with some of their tasks. Due to various unforeseen problems, frontend was behind in their progress on Monday of this week. As such, we decided a one-day classroom focus would be needed to get them where they needed to be. By unifying the class as a whole we were able to successfully get frontend up to where they should be in the gantt chart.

For this week, my main goal was to figure out what we can do to get the website working in exactly one week. I was working with the front end team to get the template for actual website. I worked with them in planning what to do now that we know what to do. Since we know that we are doing a CSS page, now we just had to work on who was going to do what, and what our timetable was for it.

On Monday, I showed the design team the images that I had cropped over the Thanksgiving break. We figured out the size of the banner and the size of the images. This allowed us to crop and resize the images to the correct size. I then took the volunteer image that we decided on and I added the text “Volunteer” to the image. I used the same type style that was used in the mockup design. I also provided Chris with my cropped and retouched donation image so that he could add the text to that image.

Week 15 proved to be a very challenging week for the frontend coders and I. While implementing our code with the design layout, there seems to be a new problems lurking. As the deadline of a rough working website on Monday approaches we find ourselves buried with problems. Without the growing problems the home index page is completed (minus the working links to each corresponding site).

Week 15 has so far been the best in terms of production. Monday I created the banner, logo, and a few of the other link images used on the page. I worked with the front end coders to ensure that the resolution of each image would work. I also communicated with the other designers to make sure we were all on the same page, that we were not overlapping in our work, and so on. We tried a few initial images, and finally settled towards the ones we would use on the main page.

This week has been yet another challenge. Starting on Monday, I was unable to make it to class due to some transportation issues. On Wednesday, I was able to help docs and testing hook up with backend to start the information gathering process so that doc and testing could start working on the change document for the login, paypal, and adding and uploading document in the members page. Currently doc and testing is waiting on backend to get more information on that, but backend is waiting on front-end so that they can place their items on the website.