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Behind the Screens: Drupal Web Development - Vlog 008

nirvan — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:18:54 -0400

This week we visit Ciplex where our new Drupal site is getting programmed. We have been designing, fundraising, and building this web site over the last year...

music by Adam McCollom

Designs for New Registration Flow

nirvan — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:21:22 -0400

Here are some sneak previews of the new designs I've been working on for our new site's registration signup and profile setup. (click any image to preview in actual size).

The New Join Page:

New Users can Join for Free to become basic crew members, or Join and Donate $1 or more to become Producers. If they Join for free, they will be required to complete a Captcha and then confirm their email address.

Flowcharts

nirvan — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:41:00 -0400

Michal from Ciplex made these flowcharts to help articulate the various paths a user will travel through the signup process. We just reviewed these and isolated a few more pages that need to get mocked up, so i will be doing that today. Prepping the registration process has taken a week longer than anticipated, which has pushed coding back a bit, but we are making progress, and everyone seems to be getting more excited about the project as we get more into the details...

To Do Lists

nirvan — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 01:36:46 -0400

For those interested in how a Drupal site is developed, I'm posting our current "to do" list for our web development.

Web development happens in stages, much like film production. 'Pre-production' of the new site is now pretty much done. We have a detailed technical spec, a plan of attack, and a bunch of stuff to do. We have started production, and will be heavy into it for the next two months. Then post-production is the launch and all the bug fixes.

9,800 Producers + Behind the Screen Site Development

nirvan — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 21:30:42 -0400

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.

near miss communication

nirvan — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 12:37:59 -0400

So yesterday, I ran into our drupal project manager, Michal Minecki, at the LA Drupal Camp. So far I am really happy with the work Michal and our Ciplex team has been doing. After the Drupal sessions, Mike and I went to a coffee shop to review the designs and technical spec, and discovered a near miscommunication. I don't think this would have been caught quite so quickly- if at all - had we not met in person. bonus points for the real world.

We Have Milestones!

nirvan — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:11:31 -0400

I spent the weekend uploading PSD files of our new site designs to our client server on Ciplex. Meanwhile, Ciplex has started to layout some milestones for web development. Screencap of milestones is below:

So here is the current plan:

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Technical Spec

Thursday, 21 August (2 days away)

Contracts Signed, new website, here we come!

nirvan — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:13:12 -0400

pic: Michal Minecki (Drupal lead and project Manager), me, and Ilya Pozen (owner of Ciplex).

Today we signed the contract for web development of our new site! The site will be built by Ciplex, LA's premiere web design firm. They are coming on board as partial sponsors of the project, giving a deep discount to make the new site something we can build within our budget.

Design Refined plus Bids

nirvan — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:32:33 -0400

Got some great feedback on the new home page design, and then made some more improvements.

Here's the latest design for our new home page:

Summary of changes:

main content area has been broken apart to feel less overwhelming.
Intro video player is bigger.
eliminated the "enter credit name" field (too confusing from user POV).
added member sign in box to right column.
crisper copy.
dynamic blocks on bottom to display latest production blogs and featured videos.
Action Blocks moved down to be consistent site-wide.

If you have any design notes, please let me know!

Web Development Update w/ Designs!

nirvan — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:21:12 -0400

Hey everyone,

So, this is a big update regarding our web development.

A few days ago I put the finishing touches on our site specs, and reached out to Drupal developers to put a bid on our job. The response so far has been great, and we have a lot of interested developers.

I posted the job on the Drupal forums here: http://drupal.org/node/275024

There are links in the job posting to several of the design mock-ups i've been working on.

Here is a little preview...(click for larger images)

new home page: