March 26th 2014

Things are starting to become simpler now... I think. We got all the sponsors up and formatted to the page. And all the conference pages have gotten cleaned up. I received the parking map, the venues info, and a few other things from people this week; all of the changes for those people have been made. There are now only two pressing tasks. The first thing that is really important is to finalize all the changes on the schedule online. This needs to be done ASAP, and should not be too hard. I am having trouble fitting the locations on the image without it starting to look crowded. The second task is less pressing and more based in aesthetics; Channing and I are working to reformat the film pages. Right now they are blocky and not very pleasing to the eye. Hopefully by the end of the weekend we will have sorted this out and made it easier for the website people next year to just model future film pages after our carefully coded example.

March 21st 2014

This week is all about getting the sponsors, films, and conference pages ps to date and synced on the website. This has been a challenge because we are still waiting on stills and descriptions for some of the films and papers, and I also was still missing some of the logos and sponsor levels information until just recently. Also the sponsors page is really hard to format neatly but as soon as I figure that out we should be looking a lot better. The last thing on my mind right now is the question of whether we should make "Current Sponsors" and "Become a Sponsor" two separate pages. I think that's it. It's a lot of work, but I'm sure we can get it done.

March 13th 2014

This week has been interesting to say the least. We are making a lot of changes to the website this week and the to do list was pretty long. The biggest thing is a restructure of the menus and the site map. We are revisiting everything in the tabs and pages to ensure that nothing is confusing. We also are going to look really hard at the homepage to make it as inviting as we can. There may be a few aesthetic changes to come in the next week. And then lastly we are deciding exactly how to handle uploading blogs to the website, and even whether the 'Recent News' Page is even necessary at this point.