Tracy's+Activity+Log


 * March 12**
 * began reviewing sites I like very much, and taking consideration of the project premise, began posting on the benchmark index.
 * Posted Hexaplex in the benchmark index
 * March 15**
 * Posted Mediamatic.net in the benchmark index.
 * Posted Indexhibit.org in the benchmark index.
 * Created and typed up an initial project outline for Group 4
 * Edited the Week 1 class notes
 * added onto the suggestions list in the benchmark index.


 * March 16**
 * began making notes about the current CCCA website
 * added a page for my group, in preparing for the 5 minute presentation
 * added to the CCCA site critique: suggested tabs, rss feeds for a more conversational website


 * March 20**
 * continued revising the wiki page of Group 4
 * began brainstorming on the various interactions/case scenarios for the implementation of artists' interaction with CCCA[[image:DSC02750.JPG width="224" height="169"]][[image:DSC02749.JPG width="226" height="172"]][[image:DSC02748.JPG width="457" height="345"]]


 * March 22**
 * finished digitizing a small flow chart, and has posted this on the group's page
 * will continue pressing onwards as soon as I recover from this seasonal illness!


 * March 27**
 * revised the benchmarks that I've added. Created a seperate page which branches out from the index for Indexhibit and Mediamatic


 * March 28**
 * Edited the group wiki. Created a divider jpg, split it down into groups. Making use of the new Wiki functions! This function is making the wiki much more exciting to work with!
 * Collaborated with Eugene on a READ version of the flowchart


 * March 29**
 * Continued to make the group wiki


 * March 30**
 * Cleaned up the Benchmark Index.
 * finished the flowchart for EDITING
 * April 2**
 * Made the VIEWING wireframes and handed it in to David by 11:30 am on Friday
 * Made the VIEWING wireframes and handed it in to David by 11:30 am on Friday


 * April 6**
 * made this prototype
 * [[image:Picture_56.png width="303" height="198"]]
 * then decided to start a new one so from the week of April 6 - April 13 I worked on skinning a new wordpress theme
 * then decided to start a new one so from the week of April 6 - April 13 I worked on skinning a new wordpress theme


 * April 13**
 * these are some of the screenshots of me working on the new theme
 * [[image:yee.png width="328" height="208"]]




 * week of April 13 - April 20**
 * worked on this theme to show to the class this initial prototype. During this stage, most of the capabilities of Wordpress were decided upon and mapped out. The Template Tags were noted down on a text file and ready to integrate into the theme one by one.
 * On presenting to Bill Kirby, he noted that althoguh it doesn't seem like it suits the current CCCA Implementation, it was decided that this is a very interesting idea, and will definitely speed up the process for Bill's editor and assistants in updating the site.
 * after presenting to bill, I spoke to Eugene. He agreed to look into the Wordpress interface and see if any work can be done there.

Eugene said that the current theme is way too messy to make any sort of progress. After the initial prototype we agreed that emphasis needs to be placed on the gallery and not the "updates" part as planned. And so, we set out to revamp the entire website from scratch, during this short while before we head on to the user testing.
 * April 27**

email from eugene: //Hey Tracy check this out [] user: q password: pass
 * April 30**

everything except from post and profile is removed, and if you go to post > edit youll see that you can change the header text too. Sooo, if you know what text you want to put there on each screen ill put it :) And we can basically change how everything looks, the buttons and colours so it wont even look like wordpress//

Posted the User Test Plan on the wiki.
 * May 4**

Finished the new website to be user tested. The user testing was held at 4:30 pm on Thursday. These are some of the pictures.
 * May 7**

screenshot of hte prototype that was used for the user testing







put together all the observation notes, as well as the user test plan for the user test report. a [|.pdf version can be found here.]
 * May 11**

cleaned up the site using the results from the user test report
 * May 18**

finshed up the refined prototype
 * May 28**