Progress Update - Week 12

The good news - the build is on schedule. This week I finished the CSS style sheet, although I think I should spend a bit of time "cleaning it up". I've also populated the site with content, and the business owner is now reviewing the site. I found a royalty-free image on the Getty website which I'm using as a logo placeholder, and impressed myself by changing the colours to match the hex codes in the style sheet.

I am using PHP for the online form- and have reused the code provided by CSS Karma. I decided not to use MySQL in my online enquiry form, because I don't think it's necessary to store the information. Instead, I'm taking the "fire and forget" approach - anticipating that the enquiry messages don't get lost in the ether.

The main pages of the site all validate successfully - both HTML and CSS. However, I've run into a couple of problems validating the Gallery and Contact Us pages - where I have reused other people's code for the photo gallery (JavaScript), the embedded videos (YouTube) and the online enquiry form (CSS Karma). It seems I can get the pages to validate if I change the doc type to Transitional (rather than Strict), but I need to look into the implications for this. I'll see if Alastair can help me on Tuesday night.

Hoping to complete the first draft of the system documentation and add some metatags to the site before Tuesday night.

It's not likely that I will add any advanced features to the site next week, as I need to focus on completing the documentation of the project, taking into consideration the peer feedback received during semester. Although if there's time - I will probably look into improving the site accessibility.