Thursday, February 09, 2006
Home Page Created
First Homepage
I have worked out the style of the homepage center content. I worked it out with pencil and paper at first then created the page with homesite.exe. I am quite happy with the outcome so far. Check it out
JSP Assembly
I have tested out the use of .jsp to assemble the pages rather than copying the framework into each page. So far so good. I just have to deal now with writing articles without the benefit of style information. Probably it will save me time to do it that way anyway. One feature I want to incorporate into each sub page is cookie-crumb. So that the reader can see where they are in the structure of the site.
Blast that 800x600
I thought I had finalized a format, but then I started testing using 600x800 screen and I had to make some adjustments. There's more whitespace in the middle of the screen than I would like, but it is a nice comprimise between 800x600 and 1024x768.
No excuses
Now that I have framework of the site built, I have no excuses but to begin filling it with content. I have started a Postwar home article, but I would really like to write a Craftsman Bungalow article first. I would rather launch the site using an article on Arts and Crafts. I really need to set a stake in the ground as to when I would like to launch, and how much content I expect to have created.
Misc.
Other things I need to start thinking about is a Messageboard, a guestbook, and FAQ. I would really like the capability to track comments by people about articles, below the article, but I do not want to have to build that capability. Hopefully I can figure a way to do that seamlessly using someone else's site.
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Action List:
To Do
- Test image manipulation with Java
- Test image storage in MySQL
- Create What style is my house questionnaire?
- Create House Style section
- Look into logic to rotate articles
- Test use of blogger for articles
In progress
- Write my first article and work out subsections and format - Started Post war homes
- Complete profile form - looking at blogger format
Complete
- Research post war homes - Done
- Create front page centre content - Done
- Test out compiled page technology - Done
- Create a mini icon for browsers - Done
I have worked out the style of the homepage center content. I worked it out with pencil and paper at first then created the page with homesite.exe. I am quite happy with the outcome so far. Check it out
JSP Assembly
I have tested out the use of .jsp to assemble the pages rather than copying the framework into each page. So far so good. I just have to deal now with writing articles without the benefit of style information. Probably it will save me time to do it that way anyway. One feature I want to incorporate into each sub page is cookie-crumb. So that the reader can see where they are in the structure of the site.
Blast that 800x600
I thought I had finalized a format, but then I started testing using 600x800 screen and I had to make some adjustments. There's more whitespace in the middle of the screen than I would like, but it is a nice comprimise between 800x600 and 1024x768.
No excuses
Now that I have framework of the site built, I have no excuses but to begin filling it with content. I have started a Postwar home article, but I would really like to write a Craftsman Bungalow article first. I would rather launch the site using an article on Arts and Crafts. I really need to set a stake in the ground as to when I would like to launch, and how much content I expect to have created.
Misc.
Other things I need to start thinking about is a Messageboard, a guestbook, and FAQ. I would really like the capability to track comments by people about articles, below the article, but I do not want to have to build that capability. Hopefully I can figure a way to do that seamlessly using someone else's site.
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Action List:
To Do
- Test image manipulation with Java
- Test image storage in MySQL
- Create What style is my house questionnaire?
- Create House Style section
- Look into logic to rotate articles
- Test use of blogger for articles
In progress
- Write my first article and work out subsections and format - Started Post war homes
- Complete profile form - looking at blogger format
Complete
- Research post war homes - Done
- Create front page centre content - Done
- Test out compiled page technology - Done
- Create a mini icon for browsers - Done
# posted by Brian R. Booth @ 10:36 AM 
