Week 003 - Design and Information.
Hours: 1-2hrs
We finally got some information and content for the site. I haven't had a chance yet to go through it thoroughly, I'm going to print it out and have a good read and thus get moving on the documentation.
The brief we got from Naomi seemed pretty straightforward - apart from the database! :p We've pretty much decided on a design - I'll leave most of the nitty gritty to Peter though, even though I quite enjoy designing aesthetics for web (as well as other mediums) but we decided early on that Peter was our design guru in our group, and since I know more about html, the coding, etc would be left up to me to do.
I'll have to brush up on my html again - I'm pretty confident, I keep this blog (and several others) which can be modified to have your own design (but I haven't done here). I must learn how to link a css page to a html page - that's one thing I have yet to figure out completely, most of my styling goes into the head tag.
As it has to be updateable - I don't know what is more manageable, a css page, or just putting the style into the html. Of course, the more efficent way would be to do a css: one line of code vs ten... :) I suppose it couldn't be that hard to manage a css. I'll have to look into it.
I'm actually quite eager to get started on making the page!
Peter and I decided on quite soothing, pastely type colors, lot of white space and possibly making it one shape - i.e. using iframes and divs: as in all the information is accessed within the design - instead of loading pages seperately as with New York Botanical Gardens (www.nybg.org). Peter also liked the way the menu links came down over the page, but I'm not sure how that is coded - nor if it's going to be easy to manage, given that we only have one staff who has basic knowledge of dreamweaver.
Something else to look into, I guess.
Also I'll have to ask around about domain names - I've been meaning to for myself anyway, and I know a few people who have dot coms, so I'll find out how much it costs. Tom said that it's going to be hosted at the Ecocenter, but it'd be nice to have a dot com!
Maybe we could also incorporate a free php discussion board for the volunteers to keep up with each other - as well as announcements - I know that was one part in Naomi's brief... Peter thought of a chat - but I think that might involve a database, or at least a server of some sort... or some kind of programming anyway. There is tagboards (tag-board.com) which is basically could function like a chat - but you don't really know who's online or when... I think a php discussion board might suffice - if they want one that is.
We finally got some information and content for the site. I haven't had a chance yet to go through it thoroughly, I'm going to print it out and have a good read and thus get moving on the documentation.
The brief we got from Naomi seemed pretty straightforward - apart from the database! :p We've pretty much decided on a design - I'll leave most of the nitty gritty to Peter though, even though I quite enjoy designing aesthetics for web (as well as other mediums) but we decided early on that Peter was our design guru in our group, and since I know more about html, the coding, etc would be left up to me to do.
I'll have to brush up on my html again - I'm pretty confident, I keep this blog (and several others) which can be modified to have your own design (but I haven't done here). I must learn how to link a css page to a html page - that's one thing I have yet to figure out completely, most of my styling goes into the head tag.
As it has to be updateable - I don't know what is more manageable, a css page, or just putting the style into the html. Of course, the more efficent way would be to do a css: one line of code vs ten... :) I suppose it couldn't be that hard to manage a css. I'll have to look into it.
I'm actually quite eager to get started on making the page!
Peter and I decided on quite soothing, pastely type colors, lot of white space and possibly making it one shape - i.e. using iframes and divs: as in all the information is accessed within the design - instead of loading pages seperately as with New York Botanical Gardens (www.nybg.org). Peter also liked the way the menu links came down over the page, but I'm not sure how that is coded - nor if it's going to be easy to manage, given that we only have one staff who has basic knowledge of dreamweaver.
Something else to look into, I guess.
Also I'll have to ask around about domain names - I've been meaning to for myself anyway, and I know a few people who have dot coms, so I'll find out how much it costs. Tom said that it's going to be hosted at the Ecocenter, but it'd be nice to have a dot com!
Maybe we could also incorporate a free php discussion board for the volunteers to keep up with each other - as well as announcements - I know that was one part in Naomi's brief... Peter thought of a chat - but I think that might involve a database, or at least a server of some sort... or some kind of programming anyway. There is tagboards (tag-board.com) which is basically could function like a chat - but you don't really know who's online or when... I think a php discussion board might suffice - if they want one that is.
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