[wp-design] January is Upon Us

[Michael Heilemann]

Can we get some dates on the week deadlines?

I'm game. Let's do this thing! :D

On 1/3/06, khaled Abou Alfa <brokenkode at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Morning/Afternoon all,
>
> It's January and hopefully we're all nice and refreshed and ready to rock
> and roll. I'm actually seriously excited about finishing this off this month
> as it's a long time coming. In order to hit this deadline I'm proposing we
> actually put some milestones we'd like to hit for every week, and
> effectively work towards those milestones.
>
> Week 1
> We should start right from the beginning so the Login page and the
> Dashboard pages should be our priorities. From my end I've already begun
> sketching the login page and I hopefully should have something to show to
> everyone tomorrow morning. It's very simple but I really think it adds a
> great deal to the style and aesthetic we're trying to go for.
>
> We've made a couple of inroads towards the dashboard look and feel. I've
> got a couple of more ideas that I want to hammer out as I'm sure everyone
> else does. If you don't have the actual the actual psd then you can download
> it from here:
>
> www.brokenkode.com/shuttledev/shuttle_dash_v3-1.psd
>
> The username is:user
> The password is:batman
>
> Week 2
> Write page (which we have done a LOT of work for), so it's just a question
> of making sure all the latest additions to WP 2.0 are in tune with what we
> want etc. This week will allow us to question everything properly and make
> the final decisions.
>
> Manage pages
> Although no work has been done here yet, there are many similarities in
> many aspects of the design which we'll be able to copy the ideas throughout.
> So this will also be key for further sections which include a search
> facility and also a list of some sort.
>
>
> Week 3
> Presentation/themes, plugins and Users
> Again based on how we present a list in the previous sections will allow
> us to facilitate and copying things across (colours of the lists etc).
>
>
> Week 4
> Options and tying up any loose ends from the previous areas that we might
> still be fighting about.
>
>
> Coding
> So effectively by the end of week 4 we should have our psds all ready to
> rock and roll. I guess you guys could start coding the changes at the end of
> each week while we move on to the next stage. This will make it even more
> important for Bryan, Joen, Mike and I to get these things to you on a timely
> basis. Joshua, Chris, Matt and Ryan can then sort it out between them how
> they want to include all the design changes? Agree on a specific install
> nightly that Ryan and co aren't going to fundamentally change from a
> structural pov or something else?
>
> Size of Text
> This is an important one for Matt. I personally don't think we should
> cater to the 50plus year old and make the rest of the users suffer for a
> small percentage of the users with big and clunky text. I'm not saying
> reduce it so that you can't read it but it shouldn't be the standard. As
> such I propose we work at it in such a way that the text can be changed and
> increased from the admin panel if the user wishes his text to be big that's
> his option. That's the beauty of css and we should really be using that
> power effectively. This should ideally speaking solve most of the arguments
> we're bound to have once we've 'signed off' from a design pov our
> 'sketches'.
>
>
> If anyone's got comments ideas whatever on the above just say so. We'll
> use today as one to devise our battle plan accordingly. If I've omitted
> something, again just add it in there. What are everyone's thoughts?
>
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Aloha,
Michael Heilemann
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