Posterous theme by Cory Watilo

Week 10

Now that the paper prototype is complete and has been discussed with the group we can move on to a draft of the interface written in HTML5 and CSS. I had some disagreements with the group. After making the paper prototype, I felt that we needed to finalize on a design. We needed to finalize how the interface would look, where the buttons would go. And I say that because, I don’t want to write all this HTML5 and CSS code, to then change it to the groups liking. It is easier to throw out ideas about a final layout of the interface through balsamiq, a wire framing tool, than to rewrite code. I tried to express my thoughts to the group, but they didn’t seem to want to finalize on a layout.

Normally, when I create web pages, I use HTML5 boilerplate and 960gs. I decided to try something new, another boilerplate called getskeleton. It uses the same concept has 960gs; however, according to their site, getskeleton resizes well for tablets and mobile phones.

After creating the draft interface, it turned out to be more work and more pages than I thought. But the rough draft is done, and now I will see how the group likes it. We will see what we need to do next. Right now it’s only written in HTML and CSS, I’m sure we will add jquery to add some nice visuals.