During Competition Design

This week I our group continued to work on mockups. However we have moved to the next stage of the competition and we began to design mockups that were meant to be displayed while the dorm competition is going on. Additionally I went back and completed edits to the pre-competition wiki as well as the repository, as I had made pages available that weren't appropriate for the pre-competition page.

Admin Editing:

During this week I continued to design pages for the admin. The major design modifications this week included the way the admin was able to edit the other pages as well as the addition of a goals approval page.

Last week I proposed that the admin would edit the HTML of the page itself in order to edit such things as links, videos as well as text content. However this proved to be an inefficient design that not only required the admin to have an advanced knowledge of HTML but also as Prof. Johnson pointed out, this design was error prone as one wrong change to the HTML could destroy the entire page. Also there was no way to revert back to an older state in case of an error. To fix this flaw I followed the design of how CMS' allow users to edit their pages. Now all the admin has to do is click on a header that they want to edit, then a pop up box will appear and prompt the user to enter a new link if they are editing a video, edit text if they are editing a text area, add or delete events if they are editing events on the home page, change links to various slideshows, change the file from which the tips displayed in the ticker tape are drawn from or lastly change the link to the current dorm standings graph. This design stays true for all pages that the admin has the option to edit.

During these revisions it was brought up that the admin doesn't have to approve kukui nuts for commitments since they would be worth a marginal amount. Because of this there was no need for a kukui nut approval page so that was deleted and instead a page for approving goals was added. Previous we deemed that goals were too close to commitments so we decided to do without them. However this week Prof. Johnson redefined what goals and commitments were which then required me to design a page to accommodate these changes. The layout of the page is the same as any of the other approval pages. Inside a box the admin can see the tower and the floor which submitted the goal, the goal itself and lastly a approve and reject check box. At the bottom there is an approve and reject all button which should save the admin time if there are lots of goals that all have been deemed legitimate.

Next Up:

I believe in this upcoming week I will have to work to refine the goal approval page as well as refining the way that admins are able to edit pages, specifically the resources page as it has many editable regions as well as a few sub-pages.