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Yesterday I met for several hours with our project manager and reviewed 30 pages(!) of technical specs.
Michal had gone through the designs and matched all the functionality to the specific pages, and highlighted various questions. There is a lot of pre-planning involved before starting to physically program; it's very similar to film production in that regard. it saves time/money in the long run.
We went over a lot of the details, and isolated a few decisions that still need to be made. Meanwhile, the majority of design coding is moving forward. But some of the remaining decisions are on hold for a week; Michal is off to the Burning Man festival next week, and I'm headed up north for a few days of camping with some old friends (with two year olds!), so it seemed like a good time to take a small break.
I spent the weekend uploading PSD files of our new site designs to our client server on Ciplex. Meanwhile, Ciplex has started to layout some milestones for web development. Screencap of milestones is below:
So here is the current plan:
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Thursday, 21 August (2 days away)
Today we signed the contract for web development of our new site! The site will be built by Ciplex, LA's premiere web design firm. They are coming on board as partial sponsors of the project, giving a deep discount to make the new site something we can build within our budget.
Hey everyone, exciting news- tonight I had a great follow up conversation with the lead drupal developer at Ciplex, the web design firm we've been in talks with, and it looks like we will be moving forward shortly!
We spent a few hours going through our functionality spec document, and making sure we were on the same page. And it's looking like all is well. I'm really excited to be finally taking this step! This has been a good 7 months of planning, designing, fundraising, and then searching for the best team for our budget.
Some of the 1SF thingamajigies I did today:
• made a Facebook group for the Collaboration Foundation: join it here
• made some changes to the Collaboration Foundation home page: peek-a-view
• talked with Mike, the lead Drupal guy from the web development firm we may hire to build the new site for the1secondfilm.com... hope to iron out contract details soon, but I'm pretty excited about moving forward!
I have a new blog about film and television. http://filmfun.today.co... Please check it out, and comments are appreciated. Thanks.
~Shaboomer~
Got some great feedback on the new home page design, and then made some more improvements.
Here's the latest design for our new home page:
Summary of changes:
If you have any design notes, please let me know!
Hey everyone,
So, this is a big update regarding our web development.
A few days ago I put the finishing touches on our site specs, and reached out to Drupal developers to put a bid on our job. The response so far has been great, and we have a lot of interested developers.
I posted the job on the Drupal forums here: http://drupal.org/node/275024
There are links in the job posting to several of the design mock-ups i've been working on.
Here is a little preview...(click for larger images)
new home page:
Tonight I'm headed to a Drupal meetup for LA developers. I'm exploring options for deploying the next generation of our site. Looking for reliable developers to get bids.
The whole tech scene is changing so fast. Today I read that Facebook might be going Open Source to keep up with Open Social. I'm not sure what all this will mean in the long term.
As our site moves more toward a social-platform in anticipation of the needs of the Collaboration Foundation, we have been looking to Drupal to give us an open and affordable way to provide many common social features. Drupal has always been one or two steps behind in terms of meeting these needs, although it has been getting better- hence one of the motivations for upgrading our site to a newer version of Drupal.
here is a close up of some pixel polishing action. lots of zooming in and making icons one pixel at a time...
good news is i feel like i'm finally through the boggy parts of the design swamp. still a bit more to go, but the path is clearer and the remaining pages should speed up; now that the new navigation and information architecture is in place, the remaining design challenges are relatively light.
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