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Project Update 4/3/20 #11

Open marionbriley opened 4 years ago

marionbriley commented 4 years ago

This week was super productive and we are very excited for all of the progress we will make in the coming weeks. We have fully completed all of our markup and uploaded basic pages for every section of our site, as well as linking them to a navigation bar. We plan to meet as a group one more time than usual this week, as we get into the final details of creating our site. We have divyed up tasks so that Sarah will work on XSLT, I will try to enhance the HTML and CSS to get closer to our final site, and Kalan will work on the written content for the webpages. We hope to complete the majority of this by this Tuesday, so that we can begin troubleshooting any possible issues and fixing details as a group, in order to finish the project with some time to spare. Excited!

dap167 commented 4 years ago

Congrats on completing the markup! The sidebar that's uploaded looks great. I don't really have much to add, but our group talked to David, and he mentioned a way to streamline our website's HTML by using server-side includes, or SSI. For example, we'd use this to create a sidebar item that references the sidebar, instead of having the same individual elements that make it up on every page. It's not wholly necessary to use, since it does the exact same thing, but if you have the time, maybe you can check it out.

charlietaylor98 commented 4 years ago

Sounds like it's all coming together! The Van Gogh group is in a similar place--how are you guys presenting your texts on your website? Are you allowing the user to interact at all with the markup?

marionbriley commented 4 years ago

Congrats on completing the markup! The sidebar that's uploaded looks great. I don't really have much to add, but our group talked to David, and he mentioned a way to streamline our website's HTML by using server-side includes, or SSI. For example, we'd use this to create a sidebar item that references the sidebar, instead of having the same individual elements that make it up on every page. It's not wholly necessary to use, since it does the exact same thing, but if you have the time, maybe you can check it out.

Thanks for the advice, Danny! We checked out SSI's and have just incorporated them into our nav bar! They definitely keep the HTML a bit more concise.

marionbriley commented 4 years ago

Sounds like it's all coming together! The Van Gogh group is in a similar place--how are you guys presenting your texts on your website? Are you allowing the user to interact at all with the markup?

We've been debating the issue of how to present our texts A LOT this week! I personally have been really inspired by the My Immortal site, so I used the inspect element on it and am going to try to see if I can code something reminiscent of the pop ups onto our texts, but this might be too ambitious. We'll see how it goes, I guess! We definitely want to make our markup available for people to see though—otherwise, we will just color code specific items we want to highlight through CSS.