Week 9: Design Workflow and Progress Report

For this week I busied myself with assisting Jonas with writing the Progress Report such as giving in points, editing and also creating some of the diagrams in the appendix. With the design workflow it shows the overall procedure of the design of the web application. This originally started from the original wireframes to the paper prototype where corrections were made and we went back a few steps to improve the functionality and design.

Then the colour scheme and the typography were created after and are to be corrected again once feedback is given in the demo proposal.

The next step is to continue with the html and css pages to get them completely done. The javascript and php have been completed thanks to Park, Thaun and Jonas.

Week 8: CSS and HTML Pages

For a part of my contribution I have been determined to help the others with coding the css and some of the html pages - including the login and create an account pages.

By creating the colour scheme and finally choosing the typography I was able to make a main template of the css of all of the pages. Mostly covering positions of the buttons, colours and typography.

with the buttons I have finished the positioning and made them circles from inspiration of this sample code:
http://jsfiddle.net/josedvq/Jyjjx/45/
Where you make them circles by just increasing the border-radius pixels. 

ie:
.help_buttons button {
       border-radius: 135px;
}


Another thing that I have learnt again (forgotten as I have not coded in css for a while) is that for the labels of the button you have to code them as label and not an a or link tag. It may sound quite idiotic for me to say that but I am mostly happy that I am learning. I mean, that is the point of uni after all.  

ZONES NOTES:

ZONES:

http://deco1800.uqcloud.net/other-resources/zone-information/#zone 

ssh s4391531@http://deco1800-504.zones.eait.uq.edu.au

then password

commands: 

ls - list

cd - change directories

/ - forward directory

double tab - gives all possible options

vim - for editing (might need to use)

• vim [name of file]
• does not put into ‘edit mode’, command based to insert press i hit escape once done editing, column ‘:’ then w to save q to quit. 

sudo - edit things on root (i was not given permission to do this but whatever...)

SCP - Secure CoPy

to use phpmyadmin: url - www.deco1800-406.uqcloud.net/phpmyadmin

------ NGINX SERVER ------

file server with php installed

nginx log - var/log/nginx/  to save don't use scp copy using SFTP

access - less access.log

To RESTART nginx

sudo svcadm restart nginx

If you messed up big time you can roll back: 

cp -a /var/www/.zfs/snapshot/[nameofsnapshotfile]/htdocs 

Enabling SQL

sudo svcadm enable sql

Enabling PHP

sudo svcadm enable php-fpm

Putty (for windows) 

free download, use top .exe link (you can download the installer but it isn't necessary) 

Prac tutor Dion is on slack for communication

Week 7: Paper Prototype and Design Wireframes

As a part of my contribution towards my group, I created the paper prototype for the demo of our concept. Testing it on my friend, I tried as hard as I could to address all functionality options of the application inclusive of error handling. The video of the prototype being tested is shown below:

Notes:
When testing the prototype with my peers, we found a lot of different issues that need to be fixed. Inclusive of having a log out button on the top right corner, colour coding the dots on the map and the timeline for the users, and finding an algorithm to allow multiple searches to be clicked on at once on the one pin. 

Another part of my contribution is to create wireframes that show the design of the application - this was suggested by a team member because they believe it would be easier for the coders than for me to do the css stylesheet myself. Of course I will still help them with the css sheet.
ZONE: http://deco1800-406.uqcloud.net

Week 6: Pitch Critiques