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02/02/06 Met With Ian Ibbotson
Meeting Details
Introductions
Company Name: Key-3d.com
'Key 3D Ltd offers sales, support, training, a 3D visualisation bureau service and Key 3D Application Tools. Key 3D Ltd is part of the Key Systems Group of Companies, supplying Autodesk software solutions for Geotechnical, Landscape, Land and Coastal, GIS and Traffic Management applications.'
Next Meeting date: Thursday 9th February @ 12:00
Agreed to take a look at some sites to start the ball rolling
Agreed Web standards are an important, and help to promote any company's professional image. I think at least all of the below should be included once the site passes.
Ian is willing to help and is keen to be involved with our work: cool
09/02/06 Met with Ian. Met with Neil who works as a programmer @ key-3d
Meeting details
- Site designs discussed.
- Long story short we decided we all pretty much liked this site: Key Civil
- Design is important and we all agreed to present a design to Key-3d; this seems applicable because if we didn't have a good initial design the project simply won't be good.
- Major concerns
- We really need to get clear roles sorted out for each of us: we can't all do the same thing past iteration 1
- We need to have agreed upon a colour scheme (I don't think there's much wrong with the current site: let's not become victims of fashion over this)
- We need to get the site's architecture mapped out
- We need to produce iteration 1 as rapidly as possible, and I would suggest we need to agree on a design before the next meeting.
- Next meeting date 03/03/06
03/03/06
Meeting details
- Discussed colours and design issues
- Agreed upon some roles for each of us
- Vanessa to look at CSS, in particular which fonts work together. Which sizes and colours work together.
- Jonathan to look at making a template for flash that can be integrated into the site: also some useful images are to be sent to Jonathan.
- I am to look at tabbed interfaces for the site: see them here
- Next Meeting 24/03/06 ... I think
24/03/06
Meeting cancelled at student's request, and rescheduled.
04/04/06
Meeting details
- Tabbed interface accepted - on the understanding fonts and colours can be changed.
- I am to look at integrating JavaScript into the tabbed menus that have been designed.
- Ian has decided to use tables as a means of layout. Tables are to be used to order the content that lies beneath the tabbed interface.
- Agreed that someone needs to design the site's architecture.
- Agreed that some graphical aspects to the sire's design need not be finished - as Ian is adept in the use graphical applications.
- Agreed that time, as usual, is moving on.
Next meeting to be raised as and when
22/04/06
Email - with some technological conflict :)
- It's been decided that the iteration Jonathan has supplied is meeting many of Ian's requirements.
- Now we are getting somewhere!
- I've looked at the JavaScript and it is not as difficult as i thought - so we should be okay on that side -
- Still need to get a decision over CSS for the sub pages.
- Possibility of a site map
Next meeting
25/04/06 @ 16:00
Canceled ...
We are all feeling the pressure slightly. I've had trouble with the JavaScript - and it's not going to be included in any of the stuff i hand in.
Next meeting
16/05/06
I think we need to agree we can't do much more until after the exams. I don't think I'll be working on the site until after we've finished the exams. Just to let you know I'm going to stop posting here now (13/05/06) - I need this for an appendix, I've finished both reports and I need to tie things up. Sorry if anyone else is /was using this.