This week I was assigned to continue the marketing work. I have posted 20 flyers around campus and have begun communicating with my past English professors about the site so that they can inform their students. I also added a story start to the site, and will be adding more in the coming [...]

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My work this week started early on, for the release of the “beta” stage of the site. The biggest improvement was the addition of the AJAX-loaded contribution view on the right side of any story that has contributions to view. This took about 3 hours to implement, which was a lot less than [...]

This week I was assigned to work on advertising the website in order to get the word out about the BETA. Aaron had me do some research on SEO, or search engine optimization. It is the process of improving the volume or quality of traffic to a web site from search engines through mathematical [...]

So the Gantt had me down this week to pretty much finish messeging and the comment PHP code. In light of the many many feedback responses we’ve gotten from our new users since going live, we all decided it was probably a priority to fix a number of glaring problems that become apparent with [...]

This week I tried to get a lot of advertising done, as that’s  probably what I’m best for at the moment.
First, little stuff, like telling my friends about it, advertising it through my social networking sites, etc…
As an avid roleplayer, I was sure to cash in on that network.  I’ve advertised Derivativ on the following [...]

For this week I was to implement the qtip plugin for jquery. We wanted to have tooltips popup when users hover over a profile name and for the star rating in the stories.
So far I have been unsuccessful. I’ve used this example/tutorial on qtip’s site:
http://craigsworks.com/projects/qtip/demos/content/loading
But no matter what I do (I even tried just copy-pasting [...]

Sorry for being late but was working on the rap. I spent about an hour and a half working on some additional images and an additional hour getting those copies printed and over to Student Services. Will be spending Sunday through Tuesday posting those flyers on the wall, am pretty proud of the [...]

We will be going live by Tuesday.
- we met with Troy last week, and we wanted to try to implimetn alot of changes he suggested before we went live, so we did.
- Pavel put some excellent work into some more pages for us to hook up after we go live, including an almost fully functional [...]

this week I spend about another 20 -25 hours making small tweaks to old problems, and hooking up tons and tons of new dynamic elements.
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first thing I did was spend about a half hour making a copy of the website we can work on, and a completely separate database for the copy to [...]

Aaron had contacted me and asked me to create some transparent images to round the corners of the avatars on the Derivativ website. It wasn’t too hard to do the 64×64 one, but as the sizes got smaller and smaller, the pixel weight was worth a lot more and started to become confusing and fuzzy. [...]