Final Milestone

http://www.our-legacy.org

Design

Aside from a few final tweaks, this will be the final design of my site. The colors work well and the circle theme is present in the navigation, header, and timeline.

Coding

Everything now works the way that I want it to. Alex worked on the circles on the timeline and doing the random colors and rollovers. I did the drag and drop functionality and added that to the timelines. Now users can create a profile, make events, add media to them (including pictures now!), view their network, edit their events, and add themselves to other events. The search functionality is almost done, and we hope to finish that up tonight before the presentation. Otherwise, the main functionality is there and all the links on the site have working dynamic content.

Testing/Populating

I sent out an email to my friends and they have been populating the site. Now that there is a lot of stuff on the site we found some new bugs and are fixing those up this afternoon. I have a wide range of people who are using the site now, including my mother, my sister in New York, and my friends around campus and in band. I also went and interviewed my grandmother last weekend and she gave me some stories that I have put on the site as well. It goes to show that anyone can have a timeline completed for them!

Promotion

Last week, Dani put up the Our Legacy board in the spirit room to promote my project. I wrote a story on it and am interested to see how the end result went! I also created a poster that is up in Chadbourne as well as in the Spirit Room in the Union. Most helpful has been the email I've sent to my friends who have shared it with their friends and are getting people onto the site. I have been getting good feedback so that is great!

Milestone 3

Design

I've created a new design for the site using darker colors. I redid the header so that it is shorter, allowing more room for content. It is also larger and more compact. I like the new darker color scheme better and think it makes everything look more together. Hopefully this will be the last template design change.

Some changes that I need to make include the overall design of the information (like the lists of your media, network, events, etc.). This will just involve some resizing to make it look nice. I would also like to redesign the events page so that once more events are there, it will not look weirdly positioned.

Coding

All of the basic elements work now. You can create an account, login, create an event, and add media to it. The images currently are not uploading, but all the logic is there. Hopefully once Alex and I figure out what is wrong with it it will be quick to just add to the events since the code for that is already there. Users can view their events, their network, and information about themselves. They are also able to delete their events and media, but not to edit them yet. The only features that are completely not working are the search pages.

As for the timeline, we have the basic feature working. There is a large div that includes many divs dynamically created depending on what years your events fall on. You can scroll through the timeline and see the events that happened in each year with the titles as links to the event page.

Testing/Populating

I have populated most of the site as far as content goes. There are still some little parts that need editing and reworking, but there are no blank pages anymore.

Testing is a little behind since we came across some glitches with the image upload. Alex and I are meeting after this milestone to see if we can fix those and I hope to have the link up tonight for people to start testing.

Promotion

I need to make my poster for the hall. Now that I have my new color scheme, I think it would be neat to do something with that. Dani has been working on my event board (which will be my biggest promotion) and I have been brainstorming events to put on that. It is hard to think of specific events, so I thought that maybe I could do some events that are vague and see what people have done at that time. Examples of vague events include: dinner at the commons on Wednesday night, your last birthday, the last time you ate at Pat's Pizza, or what you did on Thursday at 3:00 pm. Some specific events include: the Frozen Four, the most recent Kickin Flicks, or a music event such as Java Jive.