10th session

Another week, another update.

Moving as slowly as ever. It's still the same situation at the moment. I am sending David the work, and he is doing the tedious job of uploading them. As I said last week, it would be a much quicker job if I could help.

For me, at the moment it seems as though I'm a spare wheel. I am writing the content, but that is all I can do, until we decide to occasionally change roles, so he can have a break from staring at DreamWeaver.

We met up early last week in the library to add more content to the site, which went as well as it could have done, and I have been writing more content.

One issue we have discussed is the user-bility of the site. In the rational we talked about having comment boxes, and we have even discussed including a forum for the site, but we came to the conclusion that because of the nature of our site, a forum would be quite redundant, as a forum would be a place for people to discuss continuous news, whereas our site is a place to attract attention to artists or writers that aren't necessarily in the news at this time. We also felt that it wouldn't suit the aesthetics of the site, as it is very difficult to create a forum using the same design of website, instead we would have to link to a site generated by an external client.

One option we did discuss was comment box, and we feel if we had more time then we would attempt to include them on our site, especially in the gallery. However we have instead incorporated a 'mail to' section on each page, this allows people to get in contact if they wish to.

So, things are slowly moving forward.

17th November 2008

We’re finally down to the final weeks and things are getting tense. Ideally with a full team of people we would have been up to week 3 of the weekly updates, realistically, with just two people the workload is just too much.

Because of the lack of a shared drive, it also means that just one person can do the tedious job of uploading and linking each page, which has reached a total of 50 pages, whilst the other adds to the pile of content that is waiting to be uploaded.

Though things have been quite tedious and frustrating, progress is being made, albeit very slowly. David and I have met on numerous occasions outside of class time to work on the project, but due to other commitments, the meetings have to be cut short. Though, we have both been working on the site in our spare time. I have written a number of articles as has David, and because the website is saved on his drive, he has been working on the site in his free time.
So, things as they are, we have a full gallery with 33 pages, one Spotlight page, one Art page, one Lit page, one Blog page and one About Us page, so there is one page of each, however, we have the content for up to 3 pages of certain sections.

The main issue at the moment is the lack of shared drive; at this stage both David and I should be uploading content, which would speed up the process. As we can’t both access the files, I’ve been adding to the pile of content going onto the site, without the manpower to actually put it on the site. Which is frustrating at best.

We’ll have to see how things turn out. We’ve definitely got one page for each section, and in some instances, we have more.
Fogg