Thursday 13th May Meeting

Very nearly done.

We need to take away the instructions line on the shows page for if it is IE7 browser

Steven will put together a powerpoint for the presentation tomorrow.

• Research (Sam): Going to the show, talking to client/riders, looking at different riding club websites, JQuery/PHP seeing what we can do with these codes.
• Design (Stephan): All did some designs and we took the best parts from each one, Sam's initial design was developed by Stephan, showed client 5 or 6 different designs.
• Teamwork + Collaberation (Seven): Used a continuous feed on facebook, Used Dropbox - explain what this is and how it works.
• Problems (Daryl): All current websites were poor so had no inspiration, kept over writing each other on dropbox, facebook misunderstandings, four different people having four different ideas was sometimes difficult, IE7, JQuery + Flash file types, Client didnt like the website as it was in a foreign Language??!
• Go Through the website.

Need to gain feedback, test the site in different browsers and W3C

Friday 7th May Meeting

Problems with the website at the moment are:

In IE7:

• The (jquery) shows page does'nt work
• The flash gallery teaser on the index page does'nt work
• The bottom of the About page does'nt show
• Admin edit options are not not displaying correctly
• The hover on the navigation does'nt work

In IE8:

• The Flash on the About page does'nt work
• The Flash teaser does'nt work

Fixes:

• The shows page can be fixed with an if statement in the CSS (if IE7 etc)
• Gallery teaser can be fixed by putting in a pre-loader
• The 360 Flash in the Abouts page also needs a pre-loader
• Admin problem ansd Hover problem we need to check the naming for the Flash
• Admin edit section can be sorted with the CSS

Friday 30th April Meeting

To Do List:

• Set up the Database for the PHP (MySQL)
• Code the PHP (News, Shows etc)
• Have a look at making the main gallery xtml and therefore editable by the client
• PHP will be used for the gallery teaser
• PHP for the members page which will filled in by the users and submitted. This will create a member database for client to look at.
• Add image hover to main buttons
• Navigation to have dotted line under text on hover instead of the colour change.
• JQuery for the designers info needs sorting
• See how the Big Buttons look with subtle images in them
• Put the content text and info in the sections
• Include a flash 360 viewer of the Lambley Riding club location and put it in the about section.
• Need to sort out google map.
• Include the PDFs so that they download when corresponding buttons are clicked on.
• Entry Form: We need to find out exactly how this works to tell the user what to do in the text. All Entry for buttons will take the user to the entry form page where they will be given the instructions (which we need to confirm with Karen) Here they will get the PDF link to print off the form.
• PHP contact form needs to be added
• Code the admin page and the login page.
• Change all the page tags to .PHP (including all the links)

Plenty to be getting on with.

Thursday 29th April Meeting

An admin and Facebook button have been added to the footer.

All background images have been intergrated, one for each season including day and night.

We will move the sun to the sky for the summer background and see how it looks, might play around with the clouds so that they are not cut off at the top.

Gallery page needs to be tidied up, we will move the thumbnail images so that they all line up better and the space on the right will have the 'help' text on it and below we will add buttons for each of the different galleries so that they are kept seperate instead of one long page of galleries.

Steven will update the server account to allow for PHP and when this is done, ste will be able to intergrate the PHP he has been working on for the various sections.

Expanding on the Layout Design

Sam and Daryl came up with the idea of altering our landscape background subtly for each page. The idea was to have the background portray different seasons and night time. We all decided the idea could work really well and be really effective so I went ahead with the designs and here they are:

Autumn

Summer

Night

Spring

Winter

Latest Update

With the project and members of the group progressing very well, we thought it would be best to code the index page now to allow us to progress further on with other elements and area that need to be completed.

Here is a screen shot of the Index page being viewed in Google Chrome. We have also now integrated a Latest Photos Flash element that Steven Carroll recently created. I personally believe it it finishes off the Homepage nicely and can effortlessly be updated using the image folder and an xml document.

We now plan to have a different theme for each individual page, at the moment were thinking seasons, with a night time gallery. More progress to come soon.

Planning

The group had chosen my basic design to develop further and so I thought it would be a good idea to annotate the design in order to show the rest of the group my thought processes whilst designing it.


Daryl has since coded the design and it seems to function perfectly so far. So all is going very smoothly up to now.