Community Service Progress Report
We are making lots of progress at the Capital City Rescue Mission in Albany. So far we have been able to successfully publish our remade homepage onto their servers. We have also become more familiar with the software they use called IPSwitch. It allows us to transfer files to and from their hosting server. With this program, we will not only be able to post new pages, but also retrieve their current files that are more updated than the ones in the data backups. We will also use this to help them schedule regular backups to prevent this from happening again.
On the new homepage, we had taken their old page and completely recoded it to get it to read in the Dreamweaver WYSIWYG Design interface. This is necessary in order to easily modify the page in the future. The new homepage was uploaded onto the server soon after we finished it. Unfortunately, the rescue mission had changed their mind about how they wanted the content displayed on the page, so we were not completely done. Fortunately, our template for a three column page did not need to be changed, so we only had to move content and create new images and text. This is the beauty of Dreamweaver templates. We can simply modify the dynamic content, while the basic template of the static content, such as the header, footer, and navigation bar, can remain the same. They feel that the homepage is the most important because it has much higher traffic, so it should naturally have information that is important. We had spent a lot of time modifying the homepage and tweaking it to their specifications and changing it when they decide on a different organization, but we also feel that it is worth it because they are now very happy with the page. If they decide to change the information on the homepage, or any page for that matter, they only need to make a simple modification. All of the text formatting styles will be consistent with the use of CSS. This will allow them to have a great dynamic page while still having the comfort of knowing that the new content will naturally take on the look of the rest.
For the future we are going to recreate the rest of the pages in a Dreamweaver readable format. We have started on a few pages so far, and they are looking good. The reorganizing of the pages is time consuming but fairly simple. The difficult task will be creating the CSS for things such as all of the special colored boxes that encompass and separate information on the page in a way to keep with their current style and layout. We are already working on many of these pages and they are expected to be completed soon. Some of the work will be done outside of the rescue mission to save time because we already have their input on many pages and all that is left is to code them.
I expect that we are making good time on the project and that we will have it done by the deadline along with many inevitable modifications. More information will follow with the final report.
On the new homepage, we had taken their old page and completely recoded it to get it to read in the Dreamweaver WYSIWYG Design interface. This is necessary in order to easily modify the page in the future. The new homepage was uploaded onto the server soon after we finished it. Unfortunately, the rescue mission had changed their mind about how they wanted the content displayed on the page, so we were not completely done. Fortunately, our template for a three column page did not need to be changed, so we only had to move content and create new images and text. This is the beauty of Dreamweaver templates. We can simply modify the dynamic content, while the basic template of the static content, such as the header, footer, and navigation bar, can remain the same. They feel that the homepage is the most important because it has much higher traffic, so it should naturally have information that is important. We had spent a lot of time modifying the homepage and tweaking it to their specifications and changing it when they decide on a different organization, but we also feel that it is worth it because they are now very happy with the page. If they decide to change the information on the homepage, or any page for that matter, they only need to make a simple modification. All of the text formatting styles will be consistent with the use of CSS. This will allow them to have a great dynamic page while still having the comfort of knowing that the new content will naturally take on the look of the rest.
For the future we are going to recreate the rest of the pages in a Dreamweaver readable format. We have started on a few pages so far, and they are looking good. The reorganizing of the pages is time consuming but fairly simple. The difficult task will be creating the CSS for things such as all of the special colored boxes that encompass and separate information on the page in a way to keep with their current style and layout. We are already working on many of these pages and they are expected to be completed soon. Some of the work will be done outside of the rescue mission to save time because we already have their input on many pages and all that is left is to code them.
I expect that we are making good time on the project and that we will have it done by the deadline along with many inevitable modifications. More information will follow with the final report.
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