Weekly Update 11-11

[esutton32]

Weekly Project Update ☄️

Accomplished:

• Mikey furthered work on the site by adding CSS to menu pages and styling the sidebar in the lyrics; she also started drafting the About section
• Ella finished initial XSLT for processing lyrics and also started to mark up references on the lyrics xml; they also added xml:id attributes to the References in the references doc for easy linking
• Maddie was sick and couldn't attend our last meeting, and Prof Birnbaum was in attendance

To-Do:

• Consult the project checklist to begin to make sure that we are checking all the boxes!
• Mikey will continue refining the site, specifically the music player, drafting the About, and the most important task of all: making the racoon presentable
• Ella will start work on Character section of our project, including making html pages for each character and drawing portraits/logo; they also need to fix the XSLT to produce valid HTML 😓
• All of us need to send analysis ideas to the Slack, as we didn't get to discussing them in our meeting. It's already looking exciting (the phrase 'tumblr sexyman' has been dropped, so you know it's going to be good)!

For more info, please consult our Meeting Notes from last week! Have a happy Friday everyone! 😸

[rwal67]

Just as Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 is cited by you to take on a monumental task through adapting Tolstoy's War and Peace, I implore you all to remember your work on this site is nothing short of a work that appears more than ready to do justice to the source material, and displays a level of attention to detail that renders this an impressive site that I am eager to watch the development of.

I especially am impressed by the functionality to view the weekly Github updates directly through the site, with their designated side-menu on the home tab. This is a great idea, and tidies up the interface of the home section very effectively. Having the central content of the home page pertaining to the developers and the mission of the site, but the weekly updates acting as their own distinct rabbit hole a user can go down to contextualize who and what made the site they are currently using, what ideas were floated, and the journey of creating the Natasha Project provides a certain level of attainable appreciation and added context to view the site through the lens of.

Going forward, I was wondering (and this might not even be a fair question, as I do not have any prior knowledge of the source material) if you were planning on implementing any organizational or filtration system in the music section? Say if there were common elements/themes between pieces and songs, will there be a way to filter or sort on the basis of those similarities? Again, it might not even be necessary, I just wanted to throw it out there as I was curious.

Above all else, I'm very impressed with this site, through its consistent aesthetic and appearance, attention to detail, ease of navigation, Github functionality, and groundwork laid for future development- this is a great site and I'm super excited to see where it goes.

[AlyssaUnderwood]

I love the idea of the music player! It's unique to your project and you don't really see that on most other projects. I think it's also really cool that you're drawing portraits for your site. That makes the site even more unique because no one else can replicate your artwork. I absolutely love your group's creativity!! I like how you've split up the work because at least from this project update, it seems like you guys are getting a lot done in a timely manner. Finally, I like that you seem excited about your project's progress too. You all seem passionate about the project, which assures me that it will turn out amazing. My only suggestion is that you ensure the colors on your website would be visible to everyone. There's a type of color blindness called tritanomaly in which people can't distinguish between yellow and red, so if someone living with that were to view your website, they might have difficulty.