Monday, March 27, 2006
Getting there
It's has been a month since my last post. Part was caused by a visit to London England, and the other part was caused by plain distraction. I have been working on the site however and do have some updates to report.
I finished my first article. It was one of those things were it sat at about 90% finished for three weeks and then I decided I needed to finish something. The article is called Bungalow Mania and it informs on the history of bungalow communities surrounding urban areas. I started the article as one to discuss all there is to know about bungalows, but I remembered that I am writing for the web so I need to break it up. I focused the article on discussing the historical social-demographic themes tied to bungalows. I tied it to the resurge in popularity that bungalows are experiencing right now. I will discuss details of the style itself in another article.
I have also moved ahead in putting the structure to the site together. Each section now has an index page that serves as a summary of the section, and I have added bread crumbs to help you know what section you are in.
One thing I have realized about the project in general is that it will take time to get the content I want the site to have. I happen to have 2 - hours of transit commuting time on a daily basis, and I have dedicated that time to House Proud. This will allow me to stay married, and also make progress on renovating my 1940's bungalow.
I still have not decided when I will launch, we'll see.
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Action List:
To Do
- Work out process for making line-drawings from photos
- Test image manipulation with Java
- Test image storage in MySQL
- Look into logic to rotate articles
In progress
- Create What style is my house questionnaire? - put online, still need to build the logic
Complete
- Bread crumbs
- Create House Style section - still need to fill in the styles
- Complete profile form - done
- Write my first article and work out subsections and format - Done, Bunglowmania
- Test use of blogger for articles - Done, decided no
- Created no-sides style sheet to drop conten at edges
- 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
I finished my first article. It was one of those things were it sat at about 90% finished for three weeks and then I decided I needed to finish something. The article is called Bungalow Mania and it informs on the history of bungalow communities surrounding urban areas. I started the article as one to discuss all there is to know about bungalows, but I remembered that I am writing for the web so I need to break it up. I focused the article on discussing the historical social-demographic themes tied to bungalows. I tied it to the resurge in popularity that bungalows are experiencing right now. I will discuss details of the style itself in another article.
I have also moved ahead in putting the structure to the site together. Each section now has an index page that serves as a summary of the section, and I have added bread crumbs to help you know what section you are in.
One thing I have realized about the project in general is that it will take time to get the content I want the site to have. I happen to have 2 - hours of transit commuting time on a daily basis, and I have dedicated that time to House Proud. This will allow me to stay married, and also make progress on renovating my 1940's bungalow.
I still have not decided when I will launch, we'll see.
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Action List:
To Do
- Work out process for making line-drawings from photos
- Test image manipulation with Java
- Test image storage in MySQL
- Look into logic to rotate articles
In progress
- Create What style is my house questionnaire? - put online, still need to build the logic
Complete
- Bread crumbs
- Create House Style section - still need to fill in the styles
- Complete profile form - done
- Write my first article and work out subsections and format - Done, Bunglowmania
- Test use of blogger for articles - Done, decided no
- Created no-sides style sheet to drop conten at edges
- 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 @ 10:27 AM 
