Did some more cleaning up. The sign up, sign in and forgot password page should look a little less gross now.
Since going and checking every one of your stories to see if anyone added a story point, I’ve started setting up notifications when someone adds a new story point. Should get that done and live by tomorrow.
Cleaning always takes longer than expected, and cleaning html pages is no exception.
Made the following changes:
Hopefully it’s a bit more polished than it was yesterday. Enjoy!
On the plus side, if nobody else likes the site, at least I have one fan!
Meant to get to some of the visual stuff today, but apparently feature 1 had a pretty crippling bug. Which is now fixed. Probably.
Don’t think I’ll be working on the site much this long weekend, so see you Monday.
Feature 1 complete!
It’s super clunky, but you can now start writing stories. (Which you need to be logged in to do).
I know it’s buggy. Very very buggy. But that’s what happens when you start a site with a pre.0.0.alpha release. I don’t even have a proper deployment strategy yet. (It’s on the list).
Also, I can’t guarantee that the data will be around permanently yet, so please don’t be too upset if things just dissapear for no good reason.
Only a few thousand more things to do. But at least it’s a start.
Next up; Fixing the flow of things, and tidying up all of the pages.
I got the code so that it’s “technically” able to create a story now.
Unfortunately, adding content caused the layout to go all wonky.
Spend a whole lot of time working on fixing that, and I think I’m in a worse state then when I started. Hurray for source control!
I can’t even commit what I’ve got, because it’s that munged up.
Stupid HTML, y u no work rite?!
Good progress today. Got a couple of things knocked off my “Todo before launch” list.
Seems like for every 1 thing I actually get accomplished, I add 5 to my list of things that the site will need eventually. Still focused on the pre-alpha launch though, so I’m still on course for the end of next week.
There’s still a tonne to do for looks, but I think I’ve got a good base to start with now.
Still can’t add a story, but I’m a lot closer today than I was yesterday. I’m still on track for pre-alpha by the end of next week.
I had spent some time making css3 buttons, but now that I’ve changed up the design, they don’t fit nearly as well.
Might change them up a bit. Not sure how yet though.
Going to need a logo soon too. Too bad I’m not very good with the drawing side of this. Might need to outsource it.
If you had permission to see them, you’d see some shiny new buttons. But you don’t; At least not yet.
Most of the groundwork is laid for a basic story now at least.
There is genre’s and a story type. Which will be ‘Free Form‘ to start. This will be the simplest type of story to create. Whoever is allowed to contribute, can do so at any time.
I expect to be able to let you start creating some simple stories by the end of next week, all going according to plan.
I get the impression that I’ll be saying that alot. Got a permission system in place now, and some version tracking. Two birds, one night. Super.
There is still a lot that needs to be added before it’s time to let anyone have at it though. Some of it cosmetic. Most of it will be laying the foundation of the site.
Good news though. Yesterday’s wasted time was not entirely wasted. Figured out a way to do what I want, the way I want it done. So hurray for me.
Tried 3 different ways to get the thing done I wanted.
None of them worked the way I wanted, and now I’m tired.
Guess I’ll try again tomorrow.
