Trouble Shooting

From our meeting last week, we have pretty much finished the web based conference application and is ready to be downloaded to Home Screens. What pretty much is left is that we need to generate a QR code for posters/pamphlets in which conference guest can download the app. Alborz has taken the initiative to speak to the visual identification team to work out the details. I have decided to speak to the social media team so they can broadcast the code via the various social media accounts once the code has been generated.

Otherwise, we are simply trouble shooting and ensuring the user experience is a seamless effort.

The light at the end of the tunnel

This past weekend, the conference app got together to make some solid decisions towards uploading our created pages. For the speaker bios, we ran into a little bit of difficulty with the images that were sent to us (poor quality/ pixilated images) and ended up recreating the bios with images of better quality pulled off of google search. With the change came a much more simple black and white design which does flow better. Also during this meeting we uploaded our location page, which really did not give us any issues at all. In the greater scoop of things, I would pretty much say we are about 78% done this app, but due to such short time to submit the app (Apple's app approval is the deciding factor), I'm pretty sure we'll have to go with plan B and use the web based app.

speakers page

This past week was quite busy in terms of placement work, but it has also been productive for the app. At this point in time we've split the work and are working some what independently on our assigned task, but checking in collectively to make sure we are all on the same page. This week my job was to create the "speaker bio layouts", in which will be uploaded to their respective pages. This is a generic template I've created for the bios..

 My initial thoughts on this design was how to make the page look interesting in such a simple theme (the black and white theme  web-based app we showed in class).. we currently have a group meeting scheduled this saturday to implement our new pages/ upload working content

Couple Updates

Well this week surely has been a productive one.. to start off, in response to your question we actually have not gotten into dreamweaver as yet, because we felt our initial design was a bit complex to execute. So instead we've created 2 much simpler application development wise. Adrianna actually found a much simpler way to convert our designs into an app. We are going to create a web app which we could convert into a native mobile app to put in the store.

In other news we were also informed by Bushra (one of the council leaders) that she has good ties with the head of BlackBerry. The lady does everything from creating the apps to marketing and advertising, and she's down to work with us to create the app for Emerge. Bushra will be following up with us this upcoming class to provide us with more details.

Our next move..

This past week the group was not too active in terms of physically producing anything, but we did plan our next few steps. However we did receive information pertaining to the key speakers with a bio and head shot, which is great because we can actually replace the fillers with some actual content! To me that feels like a step in the right direction. Also we have decided that we will pursue the actual app development through DreamWeaver CS6.. there's a new option, an app template, that we'll look further into as well the process of getting the app over to the app store. Another approach we have taken was to split up into 2 teams of three, each handling their respective app (conference or mag) on the development side.

Wire Frames Part 2

For this week, each member of the group created a wire frame - 2 to 3 pages of the app. Although there has not been an official set colour scheme, we figure that would be an easy fix.

  

This is the first draft design I came up with for the conference.. The concept of this app is to bring the basic details of the event to our guests, from the floor plan (washrooms, meet and greets etc) to guest speaker background information. We wish to exhibit maybe 2 specific articles as a "free trial" if it is decided that the magazine is to be sold. Also perhaps at the back of tickets there will be a qr barcode for this app to be downloaded. As a group we have yet to come together to create one cohesive design

Wire frames

As it is fairly still early in the project we have been active on our group platform. For this week we have decided that we'd each design a wire frame or  two for this up coming saturday. We have decided to design for the iphone platform for now, seeing how we all own one and are used to that interface. With this we can draw from our personal experience with the devices to optimize the users experience. After presenting our ideas.. we will then go to choose the elements we liked out of each and try and incorporate it into a master design.

Genisus

With this being the beginning of the project, the group mostly had speculations on how we were going to approach and handle this app. Within this week we have managed to create a group platform (a wiki) where we can all communicate in between our busy schedules. Personally I have completed an assigned section of the semester wide plan that was assigned last week. I have also been in close contact with the art direction team in order to get a sense of the direction they were headed in to possibly design an app markup for next week. The hardest task this week was getting everybody on board with the wiki as we all were getting settled into our new placements. For next week we each look to develop possible designs for this app.

DONE!!

Final product.. take a look..

dseonline.org

WP ADMIN

Im having issues with my WP login.. I have reseted my password numerous of times and still no luck.. I'v read a couple blogs and forums and they are saying there may be conflict within one of my plugins.. I really don't want to delete the site again.. but it's looking like I may need to clear my server again, reinstall each plugin to see which one is given the issue.. 

Any other takes on it?

WP Elements

PROBLEM
I was doing some modifications in the backend of wordpress.. came back to the "edit page" tool and my tool bar had disappeared and my html font was displaying all white... surely you could imagine my frustration ..

SOLUTION
Back up the content on your server.. delete the WP app off the server.. then reinstall a fresh WP to the server..  then transfer your plugins and theme folder over from the backed up site.. and voila :)

404 Page not found

I have a portfolio page that is a parent to photo and film page. The portfolio page is theme based which previews the posts almost like a gallery.. In adding a gallery for the photo page both pages that were subjective to the portfolio page unlinked. I went back into the archives of the auto save feature on wordpress, but still no luck.. any ideas??

Just a quick thought..

Using WordPress, how do you limit a user when it comes to uploading content? I imagine it goes deeper than FTP access, but how would you go about setting up a site like Humber's where there is numerous contributors?

Online Store

As I shopped around for final project ideas among friends with small businesses, the same question kept  reappearing. Am I able to produce work that will enable them to join the online venders? As I am new to WordPress, I'm not aware of the full capabilities of this means to create a site so I did some research. In the showroom I could not find any examples of online stores, but more so a gallery page and a contact sheet page for inquires about purchases.

Qestion - Is it possible create an online store using WordPress?

Word Press

Over the past week I've been looking into WordPress and I honestly feel this is the bridge that we have been missing. I really mean transitioning from school to work.. a tool - or i should say a relevant tool FINALLY! For my final website I look to create a site for friend looking to promote and sell his new clothing line, so believe i look to make the most of this semester. By the end I would like to have developed a site with a show room, a page events, and most importantly an online store. These are some of the sites i found interesting on the WordPress showcase...

What do you look to gain at the end of this semester?

CSS ZEN GARDEN

Usually at the beginning of the semester we discus what we look forward to learning.. well they say to know where you're going, you need to know where you came from. This is a design assignment that I really enjoyed from third year, first semester - CSS Zen Garden The Beauty in CSS Design. The point of the Zen Garden is to inspire and encourage participation in the design element of web design. The code remains the same, the only thing that has changed is the external .css file.

Requirements

The css Zen Garden is about functional, practical CSS and not the latest bleeding-edge tricks viewable by 2% of the browsing public. The only real requirement we have is that your CSS validates.

Unfortunately, designing this way highlights the flaws in the various implementations of CSS. Different browsers display differently, even completely valid CSS at times, and this becomes maddening when a fix for one leads to breakage in another. View the Resources page for information on some of the fixes available. Full browser compliance is still sometimes a pipe dream, and we do not expect you to come up with pixel-perfect code across every platform. But do test in as many as you can. If your design doesn’t work in at least IE5+/Win and Mozilla (run by over 90% of the population), chances are we won’t accept it.

We ask that you submit original artwork. Please respect copyright laws. Please keep objectionable material to a minimum; tasteful nudity is acceptable, outright pornography will be rejected.

This is a learning exercise as well as a demonstration. You retain full copyright on your graphics (with limited exceptions, see submission guidelines), but we ask you release your CSSunder a Creative Commons license identical to the one on this site so that others may learn from your work.

Bandwidth graciously donated by mediatemple. Now available: Zen Garden, the book.