Progress over Christmas Break & Before First Milestone Review

Progress

- Got rid of style box around content area

- Took a while to properly adjust the positioning of my website to prevent content and text cut off on the edges on smaller laptop/desktop screens

- Adjusted color scheme from green and blue to 3 different shades of blue and some grey bluish-gray text

- Moved dark blue bar to just be underneath the navigation and the primary links. Logo now has content color background helping to open up the closed in content feeling

- Got site live and not just locally on computer

- Added a site description for those who are new to the site on the homepage

- Created navigation bar for a user friendly interface

o Forum

o Image Upload

o My account

o Video Upload

o Search (moved from right sidebar, advanced search feature added, can search for content or by user) (fully functional)

o Logout

- Added a logout option for user

- Created forum link for users to freely and easily communicate with each other (fully functional)

o 5 forum subjects created

§ General Discussion

§ Instrument Lesson Search

§ Looking for lessons in person, in my area

§ Need to learn how to read music

§ Need to learn how to write/arrange music

- Got rid of recent comments option since users can see comments on individual items as they browse

- Added archive viewing ability to see what was uploaded in past months

- Got both image and video upload forms finally show up for users on the website

- Image upload form uploads to the site properly

- Content promotes to the front page

- Created a youtube channel for Musicians Unite

- Got videos to upload to youtube on the UniteMusicians channel

- Worked on trying to get those uploaded youtube videos to appear on my website

- Discovered a Glossary feature in the views module that has the potential to organize the videos by the first letter in the title of the video, don’t have working yet.

- Created link called tracker: if a user clicks on another users profile, they can see the content that user has contributed to the site

- Added additional information fields that users can have to share information about themselves with other users (Experience level, real name, gender, contact number)

- Posted bug and help requests on multiple forums to get help on the video processing problem

- Worked on promotion ideas…See other blog: http://hockeyismyjoy.blogspot.com/2010/01/blog-post.html