Day 8

Bridget and I are meeting today to discuss a multitude of things.

Bridget is going to work on a new color scheme over the weekend seeing as she will not be here this Friday. We are planning another meeting early next week to discuss the changes.

Rough version of website will be up by next Friday.

Final version will be up by the following week.

We are hoping to have a descent amount to images and videos to work from this week to get the website up and running. 

We have decided to go with a bright and colorful color set to draw attention to the site and name.

I gave Bridget the Twitter login info so she can start posting to garner attention (I do not twitter savvy)

I have to talk to Paul about how we should go about doing the website, seeing as the way we are both comfortable with (slices) is not a viable way to do a site like this.

I also have to talk to Sandy about dropdown menus and search bars in javascript.

I also need to figure out how to have stationary text with a infinitely looping sting of pictures behind it, Paul I'm looking at you.

Day 7

Noting new to report today, but I am posting to keep up the journal. I am giving this more attention than I have given most things in my past, and I know if I miss a day that it will lead to missing more days.

Day 6

Talked to Natasha and caught her up on what she missed in class on Friday. She was on her way to get her first picture as she left me. 

More to come.

Day 5

Day 5

Domain name purchased and redirected to paws site for hosting.

Bridget and I exchanged contact info, and are meeting to discuss color scheme and layout on Wednesday.

The class was briefed on the weekly goals and they were met with mixed reactions.

My preliminary  website ideas were well received.

Paul is going to give me a refresher on the image rollover for the pictures.  

Day 4

I do not have anything to report today, my day is full of classes and then work. Class discussions to happen tomorrow, so I will have a great deal to talk about.

It was decided today that the total goal for the campaign would be 500 pictures, that evens out to 60 a week or 5 per student.

Day 3

Day 3
Today I start taking photographs and documenting the stories of students.

Designed preliminary mock-up of website. I need to decide on color scheme and I need more pictures for it. I have decided that the pictures will be stand alone on the website, but when you move the cursor over them the picture will dim and their quotes will show.

More often that not the students are wary of getting their pictures taken and say no out of embarrassment .

I have been watching videos of Brandon from Humans of New York on the subject.
In the videos he says that you are more likely to get a yes out of a person if they are alone, if they are in a group or even with one other person they are more likely to say no.

After 2 hours of canvasing i was only able to get 4 people and a promise of one more tomorrow due to being late for class already (she lost track of time).

Day 2

Day 2
Paul and I discussed the prospect of doing 6 projects instead of the 4 that were already chosen.
Since we chose to do 6 projects, I need to drop The Finger Magazine class to be sure that I can devote all the time needed to the capstone.

Day 1

Day One

The Facebook page has been created and Paul has been made an admin on the page.

Twitter page created and first tweet posted.

This semester should be a fun little adventure for me.

Off we go