This week I realized that I let the tail wag the dog, and went back to do the foundational work for the website first.
tl;dr wireframing, Gantt chart, website mods
Harry showed me an interesting website for wireframing called Figma, which automatically generates a CSS given a website style and template. While I’m extremely tempted to look into this further, it’d require a great time commitment and learning curve that I’m not sure would be the best use of my time for now, but I’m glad to know that it’s there if I ever decide to come back to it (perhaps as part of a UI stretch goal). For now, I’m content with the wireframe I made using good-old (digital) pen and (virtual) paper. Alternatively, Bootstrap seems more widely used and with a smaller learning curve, so that could be another option as well.
I also spent a few hours this week creating a copy of this Gantt chart that uses Google Drive, reorganizing the categories and adding more subtasks as I went. Already some tasks are cancelled based on our decision to move forward with cloud computing, and new ones introduced in their stead. So, as a group we also collectively updated tasks, and subdivided and assigned them. For my personal progress, I took an extra day for the wireframing, but otherwise I seem to be on track.
More minor housekeeping: I got the working on the blog site header, so now our weekly reports correctly display when clicked.
In keeping with my promise from last week, I’ve added (marginally) more commits to the shared github, with the rudimentary framework for the HTML mockup. We also split the task of creating an MVP website into multiple parts, and in keeping with that Harry and I will be working on the website development in parallel.
Next week I hope to be finished with the HTML mockup by Wednesday, and that way Harry and I can begin concurrently working on the site for an MVP.