Me:1 Google Maps API: 0

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This might be more honestly considered the rematch, after things did not go so well for me Saturday, but I have a fully-functional map on the directions page now! I am not too impressed with the documentation in the google maps API, they give you some helpful example code, but don’t explain what anything dose. When I took the time to go through it line-by-line I realized what was going on, but good grief I write more descriptive comments into code that nobody will ever see at work than they did into their public *EXAMPLE* code </grumble>

I am really excited to have that in, it means one more thing off the list, and a somewhat more involved task than the ones before it. I will ask you to kindly ignore the allignment mess at the bottom of the directions page, and refrain from pointing out that all I did was copy-paste some code into a CSS template while I bask in this accomplishment.

next up: the RSVP page, aka “lets point out how little Jordan knows about PHP”

-Jordan

Tuesday!

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catchy title huh?

so, today all I have done with my free time for about a week now is mess with the website. I spent forever working up the new header graphic, and still want to come up with a cooler name, but this works for now. On the main site, the bridesmaids, and groomsmen pages are complete.. or mostly, I will be putting up new pictures for the guys as soon as I have them.

Heather is at Husker Harvest Days… I see a lot of humor in the fact that I have never been to that mythical event, and now she was forced to go by her job. Hopefully she isn’t too traumatized by the experience 🙂

only 2 days until the Moab trip, and another chance to tramatize Heather, but I think camping will be a blast!

-Jordan

The website is… progressing

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Things are moving along with the website! After almost all day Saturday, half of Sunday, and an hour before work today, I can almost call the front page, and the bridesmaids pages done. Once the last few formatting issues on the bridesmaids page get sorted out I can have the groomsmen page done in minutes, excluding my lack of good pictures for the guys. Heather had lots of good pictures of her girls, nether I nor facebook really has good imagery for the guys… hopefully I can track something down soon.

then I just have to figure out how the whole registration thing will work, beat the google maps API into my CSS format, and… yeah that should about do it for the website! 🙂

-Jordan

Gallery, Verbage, Colors etc

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I have managed to pull Heather into the design process for the main website (woot), and now have some actually challenges instead of just saying “meh, looks good enough.” Its a good thing, and I think the website is going to look awesome if I can implement everything we talked about.

First off I wont have to try and come up with text for the front page that doesn’t sound dumb, Heather can do that! 🙂

Second off, once we pick colors, pictures and whatnot, I will have to figure out CSS wrangling to get things to be the right colors, and formatted around pictures. I don’t expect that to be so hard, but who knows.

lastly, trying to get Gallery to pretend to be a cohesive part of the website is kinda a pain, using the proper theme, it at least presents the pictures in a non-painful way. Heather asked that the background be black, and low and behold, the “slider” theme has an option for a “black” color scheme… only its not black. Should be easy enough to fix, I just need time to dig around in the color settings. Then I run into the fact that “slider” doesn’t leave me an easy place to inject a link back to “home”, nor dose it seem to care that I don’t want the picture file names displayed.

I am looking forward to Saturday though, I should have some time to beat on the website

-Jordan

Website

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CSS templates are amazing fyi! The front page looks halfway professional, and it’s not because I know what I am doing when it comes to web design.

It may change a lot, but I am rather encouraged by the progress I made in the last 12 hours or so… I think the wedding site may actually come off pretty well!

-Jordan