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.

After deciding what we needed to accomplish and approximating completion dates for these tasks, I began researching what it takes to create a secure PayPal link. After this initial research, we submitted a question/request for the client to follow the steps needed to have PayPal generate the link.

By Wednesday, I started on the Jobs portion of the portal. After looking at the current setup to see what type of information CFRC included in all of their job descriptions, I created a basic HTML form that the frontend team can easily incorporate into the appropriate page.

On Friday, after receiving new information regarding an ASP testing server, I worked with David to re-setup the site that we had already created. After doing so, we began drawing out the necessary tables for our SQL database.

My next plan of action is to ensure all of the tables have been created successfully, and then begin coding the backend portion of the Jobs submission page.