Work Completed:
4 weeks since project approval and there has been some good progress in design & development.
The index or home page is completed with drop down navigation working smoothly. We have set this page up for sampling on my own webspace..
Please take a look at the progress here
The biggest challenge so far has been to ensure the website is cross browser and platform supported. While it was not a client requirement to begin with we have consulted with the client and both agreed on making it cross-browser friendly to ensure the site would work across ie6-ie8 and Firefox, Safari & Chrome.
Using statistics provided on the w3 consortium we found there is still a large number of web users using ie6 (11%).
Further to this we spent awhile configuring the drop-down menu's which was something new to us. There is a javascript add-on called jquery which we used to make this work. Installing this simply meant creating source code to find the code src="Scripts/jquery-1.3.1.min.js Furthur to this i had to construct my navigation in such a way that it would work with the actual javascript code for the dropdown. This was not as easy as i thought and ended up taking up a lot more time then anticipated.
Using divs rather then tables was a good learning curve and for me and i also found that divs are much easier to organise and style using external style sheets. Photoshop allows for auto-slice and save for web but in my case as i was using css i had to manually crop and save each of the images i would use to the image folder.
Work to be completed:
There is still quite a lot of tweaking to the style of the site but overall we are just about ready to move into the deep programming side of the Content management System. (The biggest part of the project).
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Monday, March 22, 2010
Steady Week (15th-21st March)
This week i spent getting everything ready to move into the development stage.
After a meeting with the client we were able to come to an agreement on an idea for the design.. The design would prove challenging but the final result would be worth it.
Heres a small preview of the site:
click for larger..
The next task was to finalised the pages with most of this already underway. The base of the back end has been created to ensure the design of the site can be programmed smoothly when needed.
Work to be done:
The development stage will really need to start moving as their is much work to be done. The pages will need to be finished and may even require style-guides to further show the client. Once these designs are completed the programming can start to progress.
After a meeting with the client we were able to come to an agreement on an idea for the design.. The design would prove challenging but the final result would be worth it.
Heres a small preview of the site:
click for larger..
The next task was to finalised the pages with most of this already underway. The base of the back end has been created to ensure the design of the site can be programmed smoothly when needed.
Work to be done:
The development stage will really need to start moving as their is much work to be done. The pages will need to be finished and may even require style-guides to further show the client. Once these designs are completed the programming can start to progress.
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Busy but progressful Week (8th - 14th March)
Work done this week:
Having received the approval from the client i was able to begin the research on other websites and come up with some ideas to show the client. I also put together a few sketches with some of my own ideas to show to the client on Saturday the 13th.
The client meeting went well, both of us agreeing on an idea through brainstorming and looking over the research. The client wanted a prototype for the next meeting which has been scheduled for Monday afternoon (2pm).
Work to be done:
As the client meeting is for Monday afternoon i will be spending most of Tonight (Sunday) & Monday morning finishing a prototype and coming up with some style guides for the different pages.
Having received the approval from the client i was able to begin the research on other websites and come up with some ideas to show the client. I also put together a few sketches with some of my own ideas to show to the client on Saturday the 13th.
The client meeting went well, both of us agreeing on an idea through brainstorming and looking over the research. The client wanted a prototype for the next meeting which has been scheduled for Monday afternoon (2pm).
Work to be done:
As the client meeting is for Monday afternoon i will be spending most of Tonight (Sunday) & Monday morning finishing a prototype and coming up with some style guides for the different pages.
Monday, March 8, 2010
Project Begins! Week (1st - 7th March)
With the approval of the client we can now start working on the project.
Work done this week:
During this week we came up with the proposal and put it forward to the client who undoubtedly accepted. We then went over brainstorming ideas and came up with the concept.
Work to be done:
We will need to conduct a little more research on the competitors site and also come up with some sketches to put forward to the client. These sketches will show the layout and where the key items on the site will be placed.
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