Ballard- Week 7?...I think?

I'm having trouble keeping track of the week numbers, sorry!

I feel that I do not have much to do with my project. I already finished my final project paper, so now all I have to do is create the presentation for C/J Senior Night.

After evaluating my seminar, I feel that it was a valuable tool for PRSSA. I'm going to leave my seminar notes behind so that someone else can implement the seminar next year.

McCullough week 7 (and 6)

Hello fellow capstone people,

Last week was uneventful in the capstone project for me.

This week I will be beginning the final draft of my campaign as well as designing a mailer and new pens for the fire department. I will be meeting with my client early next week for some follow up information and to make sure I did not miss any major details in the campaign.

The biggest challenge I am facing now is time.

Barnett - week 7

I submitted all the papers needed to get my student research approved so now I just need to wait to hear back from them. This week I'm going to create the flyer and hopefully I'll have approval by the end of this week. Once I'm approved I'm going to then distribute the stories and surveys. After that all I'll need to do is analyze the findings of the survey and clean up my proposal a little so it fits this project because when I originally submitted it I hadn't yet decided to incorporate the framing aspect. I feel like I'm making okay time on the project, but I'm just concerned with how long this approval is going to take because she made it sound like it could take weeks which would make things pretty difficult for me.

Brouillette Post #6

I am almost done my magazine for Magazine Design class and I will be able to focus all of my energy on my magazine for Capstone.

I am still having difficultly collecting the rest of my ads. I have to make a decision whether to keep pursuing ads or to not even have ads in my magazine. If I don't have ads in my magazine I will have to come up with more editorial content.

I will be receiving my other feature story this week and I will be doing the layout and design for that story the beginning of next week.

Sean Gallagher- Week 7

What has been an interesting week as a comm/journalism major, I was still able to accomplish a good amount of work done with the project.
Designing the website has gone well. I have been constantly going through several different drafts of what I want the site to look like. I am planning on taking photos of the studio to use for the site, and I am incorporating material from the old site to the one I'm creating with some modifications.
I've talked to Brenden Bekos, the HR director with WSYC and we were discussing my idea of adding podacasts to the site.
We discussed a few different programs, including Podbean which offers a free subscription along with other ones wiith more features for certain payments.
I had a survey sent out to current Shippensburg students through Survey Monkey. I will gather the information and see what they would like to have featured on this website.
The guidelines are coming together. Of course I have had to iron out some gray areas, but nothing to complicated.

Cover Week 7

This week, Sean helped me record some audio for my video portion and I was able to complete that sufficiently. I then emailed my story and survey to my client to post up on their website, but I had to go in to give them the video portion.

My client, Alan, said they would put it up on their website around the beginning of next week. In addition, he said he would send out a newsletter to all the families asking them to watch the video and take the survey.

Adams - Update

Week of October 9 - 15

I met with Howard at his home in Langley, Virginia. We discussed what exactly he wanted. He requested that I do three rough thumbnail designs for his website. He requested that I do two simple, and one that incorporated his actual artwork into the layout. Here is the first and second simple layout, this is the third. Howard really liked the first layout; therefore, that was the one I started coding.

Week of October 16 - 22
Upon cleaning up the website and selecting which fonts, colors and effects would go into the layout, I sliced the layout using adobe photoshop CS5 to get it ready for the coding process.


Week of October 23 - 29
This week was dedicated to coding the actual layout. I imported the sliced index file that photoshop generated into dreamweaver. From there I removed the tables and replaced them with a CSS overlay so the layout would not only be cross browser comparable, but cross platform comparable as well (cell phones, ipads...ect) The website itself is a mix of CSS and HTML. The CSS stays static in order to maintain a consistent text and link style from page to page. For example, the navigation itself is its own CSS ID, having a consistent white font color and red hover effect.

Week of October 30 - Nov 5

Was running a little behind schedule, my original goal was to have the website launched by November 1st. At this point what was left to implement was the actual gallery script and a contact form. I snagged an opensource PHP mail form and edited it for the website's needs. Initially, for the gallery I was going to use PHPImageGallery to display and maintain the images that would be posted on the homepage. However, the server that is hosting the website has a .htsaccess file that would not let me edit nor give the proper permissions for internal uploading and scripting display. I settled on another script, lightbox, that didn't utilize PHP, rather it did its scripting using javascript and used CSS to better view and display the images.

Week of Nov 6 - Nov 12

Currently the website is fully functional and can be found HERE. The contact form is fully functional, and when you click the image example on the homepage it opens using the lightbox script. I have been in touch with Howard regularly through out this process. Last week I requested that he writes his about me section, organize his pieces in the way they should appear on the website, and provide me with links to his affiliated pages, groups, interviews, tutorials...ect. The last time I spoke with him was three days ago, so I'm hoping to have all this information by the weekend so we will be ready for a full launch. In the meantime, I have been editing the website to make it a little more functional and aesthetically pleasing. I added a background image to give the layout a little more life. Two days ago I ended up widening the layout by 150 pixels in order to better display the gallery. The statistic viewer has also been implimented to better collect website data.

So what's left to do?

Right now I am just waiting on Howard to get me the requested materials. Due to coding the layout in CSS - once I have the requested info it's a simple copy and paste, then the website itself can be deemed complete. Howard has also been deciding over what domain he wishes to associate his website with. Currently, I have created a temporary URL just so there is a physical link to his website. Hopefully, by the weekend the website should have its full content and domain name. I have already prepared a list of design forums where I can advertise his website once released. More so, Howard has agreed to make an announcement of the completion of his website on his Twitter, DeviantArt, and design group webpage. This should reach no less than 1,000 web users.

Website physical locations: http://www.howardwinterson.tk or http://www.thetreasureroomtrader.com/howard