A google wave to document my development of WP changes for emerge

[hellonearthis]

I use google wave to document my work when writing pages, I have one
for the development that I'm doing on the WP site for Emerge.
https://wave.google.com/wave/#restored:wave:googlewave.com%2Fw%2BtKrnYUSLA

I basically record idea's and changes that I make to the site.
For example, I am working out how to change the layout to match the
diagrams produced at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/reedwade/4737285692/in/photostream/
WP has a search box in a widget on the side and I have found out how
to move this into the header
and recorded in the wave, where I found out how and what I had to do.
This documentation will help to see what hacks have been made to the
default template.

Other ideas have/will also been added/edited as stuff happens.

The dev wp site is at http://hellonearthis.byethost3.com/

[hellonearthis]

From looking at the notes (images and site map) there seems to be the
places where the blog is shown,
On the home page, On the About Us and on the Blowing your own trumpet.
Can someone explain the differences between these, are they different
content based on the tags in the blog post?

I'm about to start working on the custom template pages that will
allow the blog to be displayed with other content,
I'm starting to get my head around WP and this that I can get it to
work as the design has described.

The only limitation I can see so far is that the screen is not a
widescreen format, which is what some of the designs seem to be, but
can only really see how it looks once the content has been added.

On Aug 10, 5:44 pm, hellonearthis <hellonearthis...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I use google wave to document my work when writing pages, I have one

> for the development that I'm doing on the WP site for Emerge.https://wave.google.com/wave/#restored:wave:googlewave.com%2Fw%2BtKrn...

>
> I basically record idea's and changes that I make to the site.
> For example, I am working out how to change the layout to match the

> diagrams produced athttp://www.flickr.com/photos/reedwade/4737285692/in/photostream/

[Steph Beath]

Hi there - 'blowing our trumpet' is the blog proper - that's where it "lives" and where all posts will be accessible. A small number of posts (exact number to be decided once the visual design is done) from the blog should be drawn through to the homepage to keep it visible and keep the homepage fresh. I don't think it's supposed to show on the 'About Us' page though. I'll check the wireframes to see what I said but i'm pretty sure it shouldn't be there :)

Hope that helps. Sorry we are no further along with the visual design yet. I need to follow up on that.

Cheers, Steph
027 245 5859

Sent from my iPad

[hellonearthis]

Thanks, that makes more sense to me. I have got the basic's going,
displaying blog titles on the homepage and then having the full blog
posts under 'blowing your own trumpet' The current CCS is only for
test purposes and need to be refined a lot.

I need to make some more static pages for how to write a CV and the
like, but that should be easy to do.

Thanks to Julius for the help with the accessibility.

For those that don't like wave (which is open to all without an
invite) you can see my crazy wave design notes on cloned onto google
docs. https://docs.google.com/document/edit?id=1SP2JliABn_Zsbp1sS2nFGwaj0Ur294sEQs5ua-RM7-M&hl=en_GB&authkey=CPXdh4QB

regards
Brett

On Aug 13, 8:38 pm, Steph Beath <stephbe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi there - 'blowing our trumpet' is the blog proper - that's where it "lives" and where all posts will be accessible. A small number of posts (exact number to be decided once the visual design is done) from the blog should be drawn through to the homepage to keep it visible and keep the homepage fresh.  I don't think it's supposed to show on the 'About Us' page though. I'll check the wireframes to see what I said but i'm pretty sure it shouldn't be there :)
>
> Hope that helps.  Sorry we are no further along with the visual design yet. I need to follow up on that.
>
> Cheers,  Steph
> 027 245 5859
>
> Sent from my iPad
>

[hellonearthis]

Oh your um where I'm up too. I have had contact with Julie and got an
update on what the visual design should look like,
which I think is pretty good. And have been thinking of how to
organize it all from here.

The dev site is really at an alpha stage and as such I've just been
trying to make it go and not worry about propper css construction. As
a result some of the custom pages have hard coded css in them (like
div style='aaa:umm;' )
I was looking at added the css into the wordpress styles.css but I
feel is really cluttered and for the beta level what I'm starting to
do is use other css files, like css/search.css and to get it working
within wordpress i use the import statement in the styles.css and
think it just feels tidier. I might put these new css files into /wp-
content/themes/twentyten so the wordpress editor can be used to
modify these files. But I haven't dont that yeat and not even sure if
it's a good idea, what do you think?

Let me know what you think about this idea of writing a custom blog
display system.
I am looking at changing the 'Blow your own trumpet' section from the
default wp blog style into something simple.
I hope to write a custom way of display the latest 5 posts and have a
pagination system to display older posts.
Do you think it worth doing this instead of using the default blog?
What do the designers think about this and how would they like to see
this layed out.
I think to view/add comments of the blog posts (um will comments be
aloud, im guessing yup)
the user will have to view the blog post in single post mode? Or there
could be some javascript used that displays/expands the comments when
the user clicks a view comments button.

It's pretty disjointed at the moment but I think it's heading in the
right direction.

Oh and Steph, thanks for the hard work you have been doing, have a
lovely holiday.

Brett

On Aug 14, 12:49 am, hellonearthis <hellonearthis...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks,  that makes more sense to me.  I have got the basic's going,
> displaying blog titles on the homepage and then having the full blog
> posts under 'blowing your own trumpet'  The current CCS is only for
> test purposes and need to be refined a lot.
>
> I need to make some more static pages for how to write a CV and the
> like, but that should be easy to do.
>
> Thanks to Julius for the help with the accessibility.
>
> For those that don't like wave (which is open to all without an
> invite) you can see my crazy wave design notes on cloned onto google

> docs.https://docs.google.com/document/edit?id=1SP2JliABn_Zsbp1sS2nFGwaj0Ur...