9,800 Producers + Behind the Screen Site Development

nirvan

We passed 9,800 Producers yesterday! Thanks everyone who has been joining!

  

Meanwhile, I've been working super long hours designing the new sign up and registration process. Been workin on it for 2 weeks! Finally finished at 3am last night and uploaded the PSD files to Ciplex. I was so tired, i was falling asleep as each file uploaded. But I wanted to get it done as custom coding was waiting for these new designs.

Ciplex has been doing a great job so far. They have created initial themes from the designs I put together, and have installed Drupal 5.0 on a test server. They have also been great at organizing and communicating the plan of attack. Our project manager Michal Minecki is to credit for that. We spent three hours last Saturday going over everything after Drupal Camp.

Building a site of this scale is definitely a pretty interesting and complicated process.

Here is a peek at the 'Behind the Screen' Web Development. 

 

 milestones screenshot

 

WEB DEVELOPMENT MILESTONES:

All upcoming


 

Friday, 26 September (6 days away) - Vladimir Mijin

Site Set Up Complete

  • Client Responsibilities Before Custom Coding (to-do list)

  • HTML and CSS Coding (to-do list)

  • Basic Drupal Installation (to-do list)

  • Site Setup (to-do list)

Friday, 3 October (13 days away) - Vladimir Mijin

Core Functionality Completed

  • core functionality completed (to-do list)

Wednesday, 8 October (18 days away) - Vladimir Mijin

Initial Data Import

  • Data Import (to-do list)

Friday, 24 October (34 days away) - Vladimir Mijin

Complete Development

Friday, 14 November (55 days away) - Michal Minecki

Site Launch!

 

Completed


Sunday, 24 August - Michal Minecki

Prelim Technical Spec

 

Thursday, 4 September - Vanja Al-Halidi

HTML and CSS Coding

 

Thursday, 4 September - Vanja Al-Halidi

Basic Drupal Installation

Friday, 19 September - Michal Minecki

Start Custom Coding

  • Technical Spec
  • Plan of attack

Tuesday, 16 September - Vladimir Mijin

Coded pages integrated with Drupal

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So that lays out the plan of attack.

A ton of work will be happening this week.

Custom coding and installing a bunch of Drupal modules will be starting. On my end, I have to keep up with all the data cleanup, the design work, and build all the static content pagesl. I also want to produce a new intro video to explain the new site.

Here is a screenshot of the the latest Development work:

site development screen shot

So that's what's up, and what's been keepin me up.

If all continues to go well, we should have an amazing new site by New Year. 

And it's looking like we might reach 10,000 Producers by then...

thanks all for the continued support. I'll try to post some of the designs i've been workin on  tomorrow.

best,

n