Project Update #9

[caelingrambau]

Our goal from our last meeting was to get the reading view of our corpus transformed into a sort of bare-bones XSLT stylesheet, which we did and were then able to talk about and expand upon during this meeting! We decided that for next week, our concrete goals would be to get the corpus reading view up on the web page, and to add the specific colors for the tones and emotions and attributes with class names. If there is anything that we are unsure about, we plan to document it thoroughly and take notes so that we can ultimately have a "pre-final" version of our reading view and overall webpage. I (Caelin) will also be working with Feral to create the JavaScript/CSS union so that our checkbox filtering system will work to color our emotions and underline our tones. We also had Mason with us at this meeting, so we were able to talk through exactly what we want the JavaScript to do and how it should function. Outside of the CSS/JavaScript, Frances will continue to work on the HTML.

For the specific colors of our emotions/tones, we chose the following: Colors for emotions (text color + bold):

• Anger: red
• Joy: light pink
• Contentment: green
• Fear: yellow
• Sorrow: light blue

Colors for tones (underline):

• Pleading: yellow
• Petitioning: hot pink
• Violence: red
• Boasting: green
• Anxiety:  light blue
• Praise: light pink
• Fear: yellow
• Righteousness: purple

[sea089]

It's great that you guys have set such a solid plan and timeline with specific details on who's doing what and when you want it done by (and also why you want certain things done by a specific point!). I have a question about your coloring system: the actual text and the underline will be different colors, how do you plan on coding this? I would be a bit worried about how the colors may clash or be overwhelming at first, but hopefully the checkbox filtering system you guys create will balance this out. That was a concern that we had since all of our markup includes different attributes and attributes values that we wanted to showcase! I think if you're able to balance out the JavaScript and CSS with the rest of your reading view, it will end up looking really cool and, most importantly, balanced.

[scanney]

I really liked how organized your group seems to be in the way you are tackling and even anticipating future problems, especially by documenting anything you are unsure about! For me the little things that I wasn't one hundred percent confident working with really added up quickly and then it became unclear at times what I was struggling with exactly, so I think documenting everything thoroughly is a really great idea! Is there a specific/systematic way that you chose the colors for the emotions and tones? I liked how I could already begin to see a theme and color scheme developing through your design features you chose and I think that your website is going to be really neat! Also, which reading view did your group decide? When our group was going through the various options we could use, there were quite a few that could make sense so I was wondering how you guys narrowed it down? Great work so far and I look forward to seeing your presentation!