Museum In A Day

Ok. It is just after 1pm on Monday 2nd November. We’ve so far spent nearly two hours working on the site today.

First off, we came to some decisions about which pages required templates, and which could use a common template. As of right now we intend to develop the following individual templates:

• Homepage
• Exhibitions and single exhibition
• Collections list
• Individual collection item record
• “Standard page” template
• Search results

The ones in bold are priorities – at a push if we just have a homepage as one template and then a single “other” template then we at least stand a chance of getting the site live. So clearly we’ll focus on the bold ones first and then move on from there.

The homepage wireframe sketch looks like this:

Dan is on the case with this as we speak. He’s using a combination of Fireworks, TextWrangler and Baseline CSS as his starting point for a nice, clean, grid-based layout.

The initial design is entirely un-decided apart from our logo (we’re going for the one top left on this post), so Dan has his work cut out, particularly in this beginning stage. Things will get faster as we nail the basic framework design for the site.

I’ve been starting to key in some content for the site, and have also uploaded a couple of plugins. One – Excerpt Editor – seemed like it was going to be useful but stumped us, so instead we’re going to hack out the WordPress < — more — > functionality to give us a more modular approach to delivering content around the site. I’ve also installed a nice Google Maps plugin which we’ll need later on. I wish I’d spent a bit more time finding out about custom fields, excerpts and so on before today. But hey. Onwards. And hopefully upwards, too…

Time spent wireframing and content inputting: 2 hours

Money spent: £0.00