about this site
A Behind-The-Scenes Look
In just one semester’s time, the third year class created this site from the ground floor up (with the help of a professor, Alison Popp). We went through a long and complicated process. We discovered. We planned. We prototyped. We executed. And we conquered. Ergh, I mean evaluated. The site is validated (XHTML Strict, baby!) and includes XHTML, CSS, PHP, Flash, and JavaScript.
Each person has a hand in the design. Each person has a hand in the code. John Binagatan, Ryan Ganss, and the rest of us dabbled in everything from wireframes, to banner ads, to coding. We all learned the various pieces that create a website when all together. However, all of us had roles that we focused on.
We had decided that making a discussion board was a good way to keep all of the students connected and a good way to share information without updating the site everyday. Sarah Lacey and Jamie Brodbeck spent their time working on making us a little board to call our own.
We also needed a gallery; we know you wanted it. David Kehrer and Jessie Schwartz concentrated their efforts on creating a beautiful and functional gallery full of our beautiful and functional works.
A special thanks to Nic Mata (’94) for dedicating his time in answering our questions about anything pretty technical (mySQL, Leopard server, Javascript, PHP).
Speaking of technical, Rachel Schepers, Al Seymour, Ryan Payne, Mark Gerlach, Allison Platt, and Stacey Daschner worked on videos that eventually turned into the animated content in the LIVE section.
Oh, and you saw those little links up top for Facebook and Flickr? Mandy Lattin set those up for us.
Our second step in the process, planning, had something in it that required a lot of attention and effort, even after the planning phase was completed. Wireframes are tricky fellows and have to be updated all the time. John Binagatan, Katrina Larsen, and Sarah Lockwood spent a lot of time creating and updating the files that display this website’s structure.
Someone has to organize all of this. It’d be scattered across multiple counties if we didn’t have someone pinning down everything into binders and separate folders. Give props (all our work wasn’t lost!) to Allison Platt, Stacey Daschner, and Ashley Kratzer.
And someone had to write the words that you’re reading. This job was given to our resident grammar freaks, Megan Tower and Ashley Kratzer.