CMS PROGRESS

Well my cms progress appears to be abit scattered at the moment as theres so much to do im trying to work out what bit to start first, where most of the time and effort is going to be needed and get some structure to my to do list!

This week ive mainly looked a bit at every different section rather than starting at each so I have a rough idea what I need to for each section.

The visual design im not too worried about so I havent looked much into this as I feel this is one of my strong points and wont take as much self learning or time!!

The UCD - I have started to put together a prototype, I've made it on powerpoint as its easy to make a button hyperlink to another slide and you can present the interactivity between the user and the site easily. I will put this online soon and provide the blog with a link. When making this prototype the first thing I realised was the CMS is going to run on the private side of the site however there is also a public side of the site that will also need to be designed and looked at in detail.. I have decided to leave this section until the end of project as my main scope and personal aim is to get the cms side of the site working as this is what I will be marked on and what will take the most time, so I will use image and text holders for the public page until everything else is complete and then if there is time left over or after the project I will work on this.


Technical side -

How do I get started.. what template to use??

I have decided to use the same template I have used in many php project because I am familiar with the layout and how to set about working around it.
Therefore I have used the same template I used last year in many projects and you can see this here. This is currently where I am playing around with code and trying to get the basics going such as search bar, list of companies once added to the database etc.



Generally -

In general I am happy with the progress although I feel it needs more structure such as a to do list.

step 1. this
step 2. this etc.

I will be working more on this tommorrow where I am going to look at the list of objectives where I want to be at the end of november and set up a monthly plan so I can get cracking!!

I am also going to be setting a time at the end of each week where I will be writing up on the report this way I shouldn't get too carried away with the designing!!