So our group figures we may have been a little slack on the posting updates section of the y-media challenge but that can only mean we've been to busy working on our goals for our community group... So here is an update an generalization on what our group has been doing for the past 2 weeks..
The first week was actually very slow - with group members in hospital and the rest bogged down with flu's and 2 major university assignments, finding time to work on our goals for our community group was scarce. However during this week we mostly spent time putting together concepts, defining the aesthetic design of the website our community group wanted and gathering information and regular feedback from Fiona, Andy and Kiran - workers at Pablos Art Studio. Our community group was really great, seeing that we were all really sick and tired they told us to just take it easy, rest up and get better....
A new week brings new motivation and incentive..
Fully revived and rearing to go we were a new team. We got straight into developing the website based on concepts we had previously shown Pablos Art Studio's and progressed from their. Our team decided on using wordpress as the fundamental base for the website as we believe it is very user-friendly, great for establishing a community online, easy for our community group to update and modify on a regular basis and has a unprecedented range on what can be achieved when altered and developed manually for a specific design. Splitting up into individual topics e.g - design, coding and sorting of information, we all worked efficiently and as a cohesive team. Side by side we were able to help out with such individual topics and bounce idea's back and forth to strengthen the general feel and design of the website - plus it made the whole situation more enjoyable as a whole.
(Tuesdays, gone with the wind) -
Tuesday was upon us and we had another meeting with our community group. Again we discussed the aesthetic look, navigation and general information and layout of the website. Developed idea's further on what should be placed on the site - for example the concept of "art angels" under "how to be involved" instead of saying "donation", gathered more information and exchanged conversation with current artists at the studio. Our group has been really interested and impressed with the work that is being produced at Pablos and great to talk to the artists themselves. We really took on board the information and feedback Fiona and Andy provided us and strived to achieve the exact look they wanted. Working endless hours Tuesday and Wednesday we developed a near new site that we believed finally cracked the vision Fiona had for the website. We sent her an email Wednesday night and she loved it. Was really great to hear such positive comments.
Thursday: nothings gona stand in our way. The goal for Thursday was to achieve all the little niggly things and insert the vast amount of information/images we had gathered from Pablos. The little niggly things that needed to be resolved were; loading a new header for a new page, improving the gallery functions and style, tiding up the side bar and making sure the navigation between pages were precise and accurate. Achieving these things took up all of Thursday, but our group is happy to say that we are very pleased and excited about the final result. The final design and feel of the site is very artistic and vibrant as Pablos has asked for, yet clean and simple making it easy for anybody to use and navigate. And that brings us to the present. Three weary Digital Media students with smiles and relief at what we were able to accomplish and provide for a wonderful community group. Pablos Art Studio is a wonderful group. The staff is very friendly, eager to help and be involved and full of wonderful ideas and knowledge. The Artists themselves have a vast range of talent and enthusiasm for what they are creating and combined with the wonderful environment that is Pablos Art Studios you are left with a sense of awe and inspiration for what this amazing community group is achieving...
Friday - looking to the future tomorrow will be fulled with blogging, refining small details on the site, but largely and most importantly our time will be spent with the community group going through the site with them, making sure they are comfortable with using their new website and answer any questions they may have. So until then.........this is meta signing out
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