Friday, February 17, 2006
Who's you neighbour on its way
Who's Your Neighbour
Its been a little while since I have updated. I have worked on the mockup for Who's Your Neighbour and now have the main page and the profile form worked out. Left to do is the display version of the profile. And I also have to take the mockup to the point of being an actual application. My thinking is that I will work out the display of everything before I begin adding code -- my tendency when coding is to focus on display. Hopefully this will work.
Style Sheets
I have also done some work on the css. I have broken style out into separate sheets: framework.css, formtable.css and print.css. Breaking this out has allowed me to create a print style sheet for the website. This is a brilliant feature of css (I'm a bigger fan everyday). I had set out to do the traditional printer-friendly link, but found out that I could just create a specific style sheet for printouts and turn off some divisions, and make the center content a page wide.
Comments
A new idea I had on the way to work this morning was how I could implement commentary. That is allow people to comment on content right on each page. I think I can do it in a way that does not have a lot of overhead and it easy to maintain. I will have one comment table and use a call from within each page to summon the comments made on that page. We'll see -- its currently a nice-to-have in my mind.
Got to keep writing content
An everpresent problem is that I still have to get cracking on producing actual content. I have started a couple of articles, but I don't have a lot of substance (content-wise) on the site. I need to get over thinking about it all, and just start whipping out chunks of text at a time.
Well there you have it.
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Action List:
To Do
- Test image manipulation with Java
- Test image storage in MySQL
- Look into logic to rotate articles
- Test use of blogger for articles
In progress
- Create What style is my house questionnaire? - roughed out on paper
- Create House Style section - in progress
- Write my first article and work out subsections and format - Started Post war homes
- Complete profile form - looking at blogger format
Complete
- broke style sheets into separate sheets
- Took care of printer friendliness
- Research post war homes - Done
- Create front page centre content - Done
- Test out compiled page technology - Done
- Create a mini icon for browsers - Done
Its been a little while since I have updated. I have worked on the mockup for Who's Your Neighbour and now have the main page and the profile form worked out. Left to do is the display version of the profile. And I also have to take the mockup to the point of being an actual application. My thinking is that I will work out the display of everything before I begin adding code -- my tendency when coding is to focus on display. Hopefully this will work.
Style Sheets
I have also done some work on the css. I have broken style out into separate sheets: framework.css, formtable.css and print.css. Breaking this out has allowed me to create a print style sheet for the website. This is a brilliant feature of css (I'm a bigger fan everyday). I had set out to do the traditional printer-friendly link, but found out that I could just create a specific style sheet for printouts and turn off some divisions, and make the center content a page wide.
Comments
A new idea I had on the way to work this morning was how I could implement commentary. That is allow people to comment on content right on each page. I think I can do it in a way that does not have a lot of overhead and it easy to maintain. I will have one comment table and use a call from within each page to summon the comments made on that page. We'll see -- its currently a nice-to-have in my mind.
Got to keep writing content
An everpresent problem is that I still have to get cracking on producing actual content. I have started a couple of articles, but I don't have a lot of substance (content-wise) on the site. I need to get over thinking about it all, and just start whipping out chunks of text at a time.
Well there you have it.
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Action List:
To Do
- Test image manipulation with Java
- Test image storage in MySQL
- Look into logic to rotate articles
- Test use of blogger for articles
In progress
- Create What style is my house questionnaire? - roughed out on paper
- Create House Style section - in progress
- Write my first article and work out subsections and format - Started Post war homes
- Complete profile form - looking at blogger format
Complete
- broke style sheets into separate sheets
- Took care of printer friendliness
- 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 @ 2:03 PM 
