5 September - 18 September

• I’m not finished with the menus yet. I have to fix menu33 still. Also, menu13 will need to be redone because no one has a flat background cutout of it without the text. Every rendering has text on it. All my changes thus far are reflected in the 09.05.2002 folder on your desktop. Menu11 and menu12 have slight deviations that will be quick to fix tomorrow but I did not notice until testing right now. I will need this laptop or the lab Mac to finish it tomorrow.

• Finished redoing images for home.htm
• Items 1 & 2 done/postponed
• Items 3-6 answered in email sent to David

• Cleaned up timeline.htm code.
• Added preLoad for mouse over images (don't know why that wasn't there in the first place).
• Recoded table parameters to absolute sizes instead of percentages so that it worked in Netscape 4.08 without gaps.
• Added new div layer for bottom text so it's not jutted up against the left side of the screen.
• Researched ways to have user input their CD-ROM drive letter on setup then dynamically pull that drive letter in the HTML code to pull movies from a CD-ROM disk so that we dont' have to install 1+GB of files on a user's system.
• Image names and sizes for new Science timline are listed under Web Development

• Continued researching ways to have user input their CD-ROM drive letter on setup then dynamically pull that drive letter in the HTML code to pull movies from a CD-ROM disk so that we dont' have to install 1+GB of files on a user's system.
  • I went through all options available to me in the VISE 3.5.1 software on my PC laptop. Found nothing that would be similiar to our end-goal. I have written to MindVisions tech support explaining:
    • We want to package a minimal HTML-based application to be installed on the user's machine that will access an additional CD that contains various movie files. We want to prompt the user during the installation for the drive letter of their CD-ROM drive, then pull that letter via a dynamic variable in the HTML code to access the CD movie files from the appropiate location (obviously we would not know that location prior to installation else we could hard-code it in).
  • I am waiting on their response. Their help page said that they usual reply within a day.
• Recommended tabs for new site
  • See New Site Design under Recommendations/New Tabs

• Did not work.

• There is no restriction against movie titles being longer than 8 characters
• Added "Parachute Task - Tech Ed Classroom" title to the existing timeline graphics
• Swapped info on menu11/intro and menu11/ddclass
• MovieList
  • Changed second section title to Tech Ed Classroom Day-by-Day
  • Changed second item on Tech Ed Classroom Day-by-Day list to read Day 1 at the end
  • Created a second Day-by-Day list entitled "Science Classrooms Day-by-Day"
  • Changed span tag for "Complete Movie List" title to paragraph tag to keep title text uniform throughout site (span tag does not import stylesheet information well at all)

• Changed the HTML code so that DITC looks for movies named "tDay1.mov", "tDay2", thru "tDay7" INSTEAD OF "t_Day1.mov" and so on.
• Changed code so that the 2-line clickable menu on all but the Main Menu page reads "Video Timelines" , plural, not singular.
• Captured thumbnails for second timeline and scene selection demo page.
• Created photoshop files of second timeline for Bridget
• What's left (immediate goals)
  • Cut-up Bridget images for second timeline
  • Layout and cut-up Earl images for second timeline
  • Create movie pages for 2 movies on menu22/int1.htm with appropiate titles (given to me today)
  • Create scene select page using current design
• This is what I have planned to get done for the weekend. I'll be able to upload it to the server and have you a disk with the current content as well by Monday morning. If anything else is needed for Monday, just send me an email. Please keep in mind though that I'll be spending most of my time with my girlfriend as she's laid up in bed and still not doing too well. I put in an extra hour today, and if I do 3 over the weekend, that will make up for the 4 I missed on Wed. Then I'll be caught up for my 20 hours this week. I'll check my email frequently.

• Created timeline 2 graphics and html code
• Created new scene selection page (sceneSelection.htm under main directory)
• Fixed stylesheet error that occured regarding top text links
• Fixed movie launch window size problem in menu22/int1.htm

• Added "Site Map" link to "Getting Started" page (menu11/intro.htm)
• Added "Shooting Your Own Movie" to "Getting Started" page (menu11/intro.htm)
• Created backgrond graphics and pages for "Shooting Your Own Movie" pop-up tutorial (menu11/shootingMovie/)
• Finished Timeline 2 graphics and HTML coding
  • Made corrections to Day B and Day C in Bridget timeline
  • Created HTML wrapper pages for QT videos for each timeline graphic and associated correct links with each one.
• Added requested movies to the "Complete Movie List" (movielist.htm)
• Added correct text to scene selection graphics (sceneSelection.htm)

• Recreated DITC logo graphics to have a "Stie Map" and "Complete Movie List" link
  • Re-coded HTML for new links
• Changed bullet in cell13 to read "View Tech Ed and Science Classess Day-to-Day"
• Changed second bullet in cell12 to "Science & Tech Teachers"
• Changed last bullet in cell32 to "Formative Assessment"
• Added "Problems with Homework" bullet to cell21
• Deleted 2 movies off COmplete Movie List and added teacher names to end of links in Science Ed section

• I'll fill this out soon don't have time now.

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• Ben Gonzalez last edited on 16 December 2002 at 1:59 pm by dhcp86.mobile.cc.gt.atl.ga.us