Sunday, April 22, 2012

Nearing the end

Well, as it has been said before, the end is neigh and we are approaching the end of this journey in software engineering, this past week we had our final one on one group meeting with professor Ackley and it actually went really well, while we had some hic-cups during the presentation with things like icons not loading and such, it really went well, and he was happy with where we stood at that point in time and the direction we are going with the rest of the project. So our goal for this week was to be ready to give a 7 minute presentation about the state of our project next week and show off how far we have come to the rest of the class, and also to make some tutorial videos showing how to use our product and what all is available to people. So, John Schulz has been hard at work getting tutorials up and getting that done, which has been a huge help. I have personally been adding the final touch, the so called cherry on top to our program which is the ability to load prebuilt templates and themes to the project. Initially we were going to go with only the ability to load in a "template" that allows users to just have a sort of overarching color and menu theme that they could customize, but didn't really make a website for them. But now we have implemented Themes as well. The difference between a theme and a template is that a template only changes the "template" tab in the editor, where as if you choose to use a prebuilt theme then that modifies your entire project and essentially gives you a completely built project that all you have to do is add in content for and you're done. So those are nearing completion and now all we need to do is have our meeting to discuss the flow of the presentation and we will be all set :) from there it is all about marketing and continued bug fixes, but i feel that we are in a good place overall and that it will all work out :).

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