Week 6

Refresher: Last week, I was polishing a test area to show to Laurel, making an illustrator file for the lantern, and thinking about how to do the connections.

Where am I now?

Well, I didn’t regress, but I did manage to add more to the plate. I really like Laurel’s ideas for navigation (see mentor post, Laurel and Jeff), but I think I’m going to struggle to implement them. But, beyond meeting with Laurel, I did successfully polish up some of the CSS and find one way to style the story a little more. It needs a lot more work, but I’m going to keep chugging (maybe wait and just research until I get to meet with Laurel’s back end guy, Josh, on Tuesday). Besides fiddling with CSS and JS for hours, I added images, picked colors (I think), and worked out some problems with the header bar. Finally, I did get started on the lantern component, though it is a little rough at the moment.

Where do I want to be next week?

Well, I’m going to continue my pattern of setting unachievable, high goals. I NEED to do more writing. I don’t feel good about that right now. I think that because I might be changing up how the Firebase database is organized, I’m going to hold off on feeding them into Firebase, but I want all the writing done by spring break. I also want to spend some time on visual assets this week. This means getting the rest of the lantern hammered out and creating a logo that I don’t hate. I also want to find a background home image that isn’t terrible, because I don’t like the one I’m using right now. I’m playing with the idea of having an animated svg of growing branches instead of an image… I’ll see if I can figure that out.

Finally, stretch goal is to start chugging on the navigation and margin note idea. I’m chatting with Josh on next Tuesday, and he will hopefully be able to help me with some of my Firebase troubles, but we will see.