ajm324
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3 years ago It is a good sign that you guys are at the point of thinking about web design and color scheme, and as someone who is not great in those areas, I think that it is a really good idea to use other sites for reference. Our group created a very basic homepage with a "coming soon" message and found that was a great way to both learn the upload process and to test our design features such as color. It is also nice because you can keep adding to that code slowly to incorporate the features of your site. I think that it is great to aim for a home page by Monday, but it may be useful to have all of the code with possible placeholders for other sections instead of tackling every section at once.
hcasazza
There's still one more part to the markup my teammate and I need to add to our XML files, but other than that our markup is finished for now; that last part of our mark up should be done and added to the schema by Monday morning (3/29). This was a pretty big hurdle since time management was a problem we're still trying to get passed. Our current XML files are validated with the schema, but there will definitely be changes that take place to both of them - both Sarah and I still struggle a little bit with mixed content and RNG so that was something we discussed in the meeting with our project mentor this past Tuesday.
With this part of our project finished for the time being, we began to look forward and started thinking about how we wanted the structure and design of our website to look like. I drew up basic sketches of each web page to generate some ideas - I was inspired by Dana's project when it came to the navigation bar and Text page. I think as we get a firmer idea of the content we want to include on each page, we'll be able to have a more original plan for the format of our site. In addition to these sketches, I included a word doc that listed CSS color codes for a potential color scheme.
One of our goals for this week was to generate HTML and CSS code for a home page; so far, I've generated the code necessary to create an equal width menu bar that includes links. Something that's going to be challenging with this is the idea that we'll be dividing some pages into sections - I'm not quite sure how the coding for that works, but one site I'm used to consulting is W3 Schools, so I'm confident we'll be able to have a solid home page ready for Monday.