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Development Status and History

Last Update: Wednesday, 15-Oct-2008 0:03

 

Versions : 1.0 | 1.1 | 1.2 | 1.5 | 2.0

 

 

Version 1.0:

 

Alpha 1 [Development Reset no. 1)

1) Redoing Base Code [21-Aug 11:59PM: ✔]

2) Adding Back Self-Made Images [21-Aug 1:24AM: ✔]

3) To Add Global Footer Items [21-Aug 1:33AM: ✔]

 

Alpha 2

1) To Add <div id="LogoTitle"> with temporary self-made logo [21-Aug 1:48AM: ✔]

2) To Add Ajax Script and content to <div id="bg_MainContentt"> [22-Aug 3:00AM: ✔]

 

DEVELOPMENT RESET NO.2 [Tuesday, 26-Aug-2008 1:00]

1) Drop all AJAX scripts in base code [Tuesday, 26-Aug-2008 1:41: ✔]

2) Base code will be come Dreamweaver template [Tuesday, 26-Aug-2008 1:41: ✔]

3) No. 1-3 done, continue to Alpha 3 [Tuesday, August 26, 2008 3:11: ✔]

 

Alpha 3

1) Add Navigation Bar to main content templates [Tuesday, August 26, 2008 3:11: ✔]

2) Added Live Date Script to <div id="header_right"> [Tuesday, August 26, 2008 3:11: ✔]

3) Redone temporary logo [Saturday, August 30, 2008 0:12: ✔]

 

 

 

Alpha 4

  1. Fix Glossy Horizontal Menu not appearing correctly on IE7 [Saturday, August 30, 2008 0:26: ✔]
  2. Added patch in CSS to fix IE <div id="dhwep_title"> being cut off [Saturday,August 30, 2008 1:17: ✔]
  3. Add MetaTags for Search engines [Saturday,August 30, 2008 1:38: ✔]
  4. Add temporary Favicon [Sunday,August 30, 2008 1:28: ✔]
  5. Fix Live Date JavaScript not working IE [find alternative script) [Monday, September 1, 2008 11:26 : ✔]
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Alpha 4 Sidetrack

Monday, September 1, 2008 18:10, ✔:

  1. Renamed Interactive to Gallery

    2. Now to include:

    -Photo Gallery (May upload to DHS server or use external sites like Picasa or Flickr)

    -Video Gallery (Youtube)

    -Games (Future updates)

  2. Moved all subpages from root folder to individual folders

    3. -Eg. root\Participate.html > root\participate\participate.html

  3. Renamed main pages in individual folders to index

    4. -Eg. root\participate\participate.html > root\participate\index.html

  4. Uploaded stuff to resources folder
  5. Created Youtube Account for DHWEP
  6. Uploaded Watermark award video
Hotfix
  1. Fix PNG transparency not working properly in IE6

Alpha 4.5

  1. Decided to drop support for IE6 and non-javascript supporting browsers

    2. -Use script to alert IE 5.5-6 users [Saturday, September 6, 2008 2:27 : ✔]

  2. Renamed temporary folder Dev_pages to official folder misc [Friday, September 5, 2008 14:20 : ✔]

Alpha 5 (base.dwt Template Code-locked for version 1.0!!)

  1. Fixed datetime.js script not showing when embedded (finally!) [Thursday, 11-Sep-2008 22:08 : ✔]
  2. Redirect to misc/enable_javascript.html when javascript off [Thursday, 11-Sep-2008 22:08 : ✔]
  3. Rearranged some files and folders, removed unwanted folders locally and on server. [Thursday, 11-Sep-08 23:35 : ✔]
  4. Add Anylink CSS dropdown for Options menu [Friday, 12-Sep-2008 00:24 : ✔]
  5. Add Stylesheet switcher to toggle Menubar style [Friday, 12-Sep-2008 00:45 : ✔]
  6. Added 3 toggling colours: Red, Green & Orange [Friday, 12-Sep-2008 01:05 : ✔]
  7. Added Options downdrop menu logo [Friday, 12-Sep-2008 01:15 : ✔]
  8. Create searchbox div and add to header_right div [Friday, 12-Sep-2008 01:30 : ✔]
  9. Added Live search box temporarily that only searches the web [Friday, 12-Sep-2008 01:59 : ✔]
  10. Create search results page in misc folder

Beta 1 (minor changes from content.dwt added to base.dwt)

  1. Apply Base.dwt template to content pages and make a Contents.dwt content pages template [Friday, 12-Sep-2008 02:35 : ✔]
  2. Make content pages template that will include these

    -Floating Menu Script[Friday, 12-Sep-2008 17:09 : ✔]

    -Title Div (includes place to change div background icon) [Friday, 12-Sep-2008 16:12 : ✔]

    -Title Description Div [Friday, 12-Sep-2008 16:13 : ✔]

    -Real Content Div [Friday, 12-Sep-2008 16:13 : ✔]

    -Downloads Div optional region [Sunday, 14-Sep-2008 11:48: ✔]

  3. Decided to drop floating menu script from content.dwt for performance (100% cpu) [Saturday, 13-Sep-2008 22:00: ✔]
  4. content_right_container div to be replaced with static archor-linker like on firefox.com [Sunday, 14-Sep-2008 12:48: ✔]
  5. Changed font-family list in main.css [Saturday, 13-Sep-2008 22:00: ✔]

    6. -Systems that are OEM without user-applied tweaks will show:

    Segoe UI : Windows Vista natively, Windows XP with MS Office 2007 and above

    Trebuchet MS : Windows XP natively, Mac OS X with Microsoft’s Core Web Fonts

    Tahoma: Mac OS X with MS Office without Microsoft’s Core Web Fonts, Windows XP alternative

    Arial: Mac OS X natively

    Helvetica: Mac OS X alternative

    San-serif: Very old browsers and systems, Text browsers,

  6. Removed element font size 12px in main.css [Saturday, 13-Sep-2008 22:00: ✔]
  7. Update base.dwt with Contents.dwt changes (final code lock; no more editing of templates for version 1)
    [Sunday, 14-Sep-2008 15:18: ✔]
Icons needed:

Downloads and links

-PDF/Word Doc file (✔)

-PPT Presentation file (✔)

-ZIP file (✔)

-Spreadsheet file (✔)

-Unknown/Other type files

-Video file link (✔)

-Image file link (✔)

-External site link (✔)

 

 

 

Elements

-Alert icon (STOP/exclamation mark in triangle or speech bubble) (✔)

-Contact us icon (Mail)

-Firefox & IE icons (✔)

-Buttons (left, middle, right, so middle can expand with repeat-x dynamically)

-Search box button (Similar to page icon)

-Options/Settings icon (*)

-School logo/DHWEP icon (✔)

-Terms of use icon (Same as page icon)

-Sitemap icon (Same as page icon)

-RSS icon (Same as page icon)

Page icons

-Home page (?)

-About page (Question mark icon)

-Eventspage (Calendar icon)

-Resource Center page (Education/Download icon)

-Participate page (People/Social icon)

-Gallery page (Video+Photo combined icon)

-Search page (Magnifying glass icon)

-Terms of use page (?)

-Sitemap page (Network/Mindmap icon)

-Development status page (*still not sure if pg shld be deleted after 1.0 done; may change to "Announcement" page after 1.0)

-Forum (* future)

(* = optional)

 

Official Document types:

-Documents: [.PDF] Portable Document Format ISO19005-1 Compliant (In future convert to Word .Doc as file size is smaller)

-Presentations: [.PPT] MS Office Powerpoint 97-2003 format

-Spreadsheets: [.XLS] MS Office Excel 97-2003 format

-Videos: [.avi/.mov] Uploaded to Youtube, embedded as Youtube video in gallery

-Images: [.png/.gif] - for layout/css ; [.png/.jpg] for photos

-Compressed file: [.ZIP] ZIP folder, uses 7-zip to compress

 

Beta 2

  1. Create Miscellaneous pages like "Term Of Use (not finalized)", "Sitemap (not finalized)" [Sunday, 14-Sep-2008 15:00: ✔]
  2. Added TreeMenu to msic/sitemap.html [Sunday, 14-Sep-2008 22:30: ✔]
  3. Added links to misc/sitemap/ [Sunday, 14-Sep-2008 22:50: ✔]
  4. Index.html to add announcement scroll (to add RSS in future) [Sunday, 14-Sep-2008 23:51: ✔]
  5. Add in Gradual Element Fader or Animated PUB-ABC Banner or WebMynd Website's implementation of Coda-Slider-1.1.1 on Index.html [Sunday, 14-Sep-2008 23:51: ✔]

    -Chose Gradual Element Fader but may use others in later versions

 

Beta 3

  1. Add in Content Pages

    Home

  2. Change all Word Document to PDF files [Friday, September 5, 2008 14:20 : ✔]
  3. Change all Powerpoint Docs to Powerpoint Show (Read only with Password protected) [Friday, September 5, 2008 14:20 : ✔]
  4. Tweaked Theme Chooser : Now switching themes changes Announcement barcolour [Monrday, 15-Sep-2008 20:08: ✔]
  5. Officially renamed Participate folder to Engage [Monrday, 15-Sep-2008 20:15: ✔]
  6. Created DHWEP Development blog and moved tagboard there [Monrday, 15-Sep-2008 22:15: ✔]
  7. Added marquee scroller content to "Recent and upcoming events" box on index.html [Monrday, 15-Sep-2008 23:53: ✔]
  8. Finalize all content and download files
  9. Redo misc/enable_javascript.html[Wednesday, 17-Sep-2008 16:30: ✔]
  10. Finalize Engage/Participate folder name (if any) [Wednesday, 17-Sep-2008 20:46: ✔]
  11. Removed LINK TO DYNAMICDRIVE.COM when clicking "Options" [Thursday, 18-Sep-2008 15:59: ✔]

 

Release Candidate 1 (Targeted release date: 18th Sep 2008, Thursday)

  1. Finalize Sitemap and Terms of Use
  2. Invitation to testers to test site
  3. Last minute changest before launch of site (if any)

Version 1.1 (Finish what was not completed in 1.0 : Clean design and easy updating)

 

[* From now on, all changes that are buggy and have error have to be tested locally and not uploaded to the servers on-save; if neccessary to upload to servers, restore working copy when results are unwanted]

 

Alpha 1

  1. Changed some content in misc/helpindex.html [Saturday, 20-Sep-2008 11:39: ✔]
  2. Rename and relink index folder in root/javascripts
  3. Added "Coming soon!" picture to unfinished links [Thursday, 25-Sep-2008 22:07: ✔]
  4. Rename elements/misc to elements/content (merge existing folder) and relink

 

Alpha 2

  1. Redo base.dwt

    2. -Change elements/bg_mid.png to have more shadow like the one found on http://www.fbs.leeds.ac.uk/garden/index.htm

    -Comply with HTML 4.01 strict and pass the W3C Markup Validation (if possible)

    -Fix IE7 white space issue (found from 1.0 Alpha 4.5 onwards)

 

Alpha 3

  1. Redo content.dwt

    2. -Convert content.dwt to nested template and receive updates from base.dwt

    -Add content_left_container and content_right_container to base.dwt's Body editable region

    -Change table for content_title_container to div or box model (h1, h2)

    -Move Downloads editable region to content_right_container (may change)

    -Check for any CSS errors in all pages

    -Redo Main.css and Content.Css

    -Delete unwanted images in elements/root_index folder

  2. Fix hover effects performance issues on homepage (optional for version 1.1)

    -Find new effects (?)

 

Beta 1

  1. Rethink and remake navigation style

    -Add Breadcrumbs (?)

    -Move subpages links navigation to just below Navbar (?) / below content_title (wikipedia articles style)

    -Possible to change Navbar style to hover and drop down subpages

 

Beta 2

  1. Change DHWEP banner logo to a nicer one OR animated flash one with moving droplet
  2. Edit pages that have linking problems

 

Release Candidate 1(Target release date: Friday, 17th Oct 2008)

  1. Change DHWEP banner logo to a nicer one OR animated flash one with moving droplet

Version 1.2 (More content!)

 

 

Alpha 1

  1. Edit content pages and check for consistency
  2. Relink all incorrect links
  3. Remove redirect pages
  4. Add in gallery
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Alpha 1 Sidetrack

  1. Fix hover effects performance issues on homepage (if not already fixed in v1.1)

    -Find new effects (?)

 

Alpha 2

  1. Video Gallery (Youtube Embed)

    -PUB Video

    -Water Conference 2007

    -Watermark Award 2007 (✔)

  2. Photo Gallery (Flickr/Picasa?)

    -Kallang River (?)

    -Water Conference 2007

 

Alpha 3

  1. Add real site-indexed in-housed search
  2. Create search.html page in misc folder

 

Beta 1

  1. Add a "How to navigate this site" page to teach visitors site features
  2. Update Sitemap

 

Beta 2

  1. Double-check and change all incorrect links

 

Release Candidate 1 (Target release date: Monday, 20th Oct 2008)

  1. Major updates completed!
  2. Should have a cleaner interface than v1.0

Version 1.5 (New features, More interaction!)

  1. Add Forum

 

Version 2.0 (Faster navigation!)

  1. Switch to AJAX with only base_MainContent div changing content (experimental)

This is: Version 1.1 Alpha 1

This site is tested with and works on: Mozilla Firefox 2 & 3 and Windows Internet Explorer 7.

Not supported on Internet Explorer 6 and older.

Best viewed on Windows XP and Vista at resolutions of 1024*768 pixels and higher.

CURRENTLY THE BASE CODE IS:

Valid CSS!