Developer Update

Task List so far

• Research into CMS/Delivery Requirements(DR)
• Play with CMS
• Build Skeletal Site
• Started to create the Flash Slideshow for first page
• Build Official Site
• Add some content from the Prospectus

Research into CMS/DR
This was an easy starter task and required me to look into using a Content Management System or CMS. I found a few which looked as if they would be easy to use. Some did look difficult to use and I think this is where our first problem arose.

Play with CMS
Originally this looked as if this would be a brilliant piece system that could be implemented but then several factors arose. E.g. Would Dean allow us to impose something on his network, could have some privacy/security issues, Marc wants to update this so would it be easy for him to and how would he do it?. So we eventually decided this may be difficult to implement. However Dean has a system in place so this could allow for the site to be updated.

Build Skeletal Site
Initially I had troubles making the website render correctly in Fire Fox. The website has 3 elements a top section where the website content begins, a middle section that is supposed to replicate itself downwards and a bottom image that is meant to sit at the bottom of the site. In Fire Fox this was not the case as the background did not repeat downwards.

Flash Slideshow
This has been taken over by Scott as the website was proving to be a big task to complete. He has been advised that it would need to be smaller in order to fill the space on the site without overlapping the maincontent div.

Build Official Website
The website is nearly completed, the template idea has been ditched as it was making a few problems. It is attached to a single CSS page and Dean's Wakefield College banner now validates and it would have earlier had I created it from scratch. It was only simple errors that when one was fixed it removed 4 errors, starting with 39 ending in 0 creating a XHTML 1.0 Strict Valid site.

Content
We are still waiting for some of the content so to fill the space, possibly will be the final content anyway, I have added the content from the college prospectus.

Current State
The website is currently near completion and will be ready for user testing on Thursday.

All in all I think that this site is quite impressive and looks so much better with the content in place. Currently waiting for a temporary match report from Scott and a mini icon for Match Reports from Julian.