What We're Doing - 30 May 2008

This entire last week, we've been working on a website for the last week. We started thinking about how our website would look and function with a team of three people. Now, we have a team of 9 people working on the website! Our team is divided into three groups: content, code, design. The specific tasks of each group will be detailed below:

a) Designers - these are the people who will be making stuff on the website look nice. This includes but is not limited to making backgrounds, buttons, and other graphics for use in our website. Oh, while we're on this thread of thought, I should mention that we've decided as a team to build our website in Flash. This is not optimal in terms of remotely editing our webpage easily, but it has a great potential for looking really nice. Anyways, the design group will basically be taking care of aesthetics.

b) Coders - this group will be coding the website. Since the website is built in Flash, the main task is making objects move as desired with Action Script. This group doesn't have much to do with how the website looks as much as how the website works. I think the first task the coders will tackle is just making a basic layout with a menu bar and a box to display content.

c) Content group (no -er here) - this group decides what to put and where to put it. They'll be doing things like writing the mission statement of the Strength of We, or project descriptions and deciding where to put it on the website. While the designers decide how the website looks in terms of graphics and the coders make it work, the content group really decides what message our website will convey, thus making it a very important group.

We really can't progress in the direction of raising corporate sponsorship or anything else because we don't have the specifics of the trip yet. As far as I know, we don't know where the team is planning on going and when. This is a real hindrance because we can't just ask people for money without knowing what's going on. Oh well, the strength of we is much greater than the strength of me. We can still do this!