This week I took care of creating the Inbox for messages, adding items to the “Home” page - the landing page when you’re logged in - and pages dealing with the friends that you’ve added.

The inbox took a while to figure out, but it’s working nicely now. We wanted to have a way to indicate whether or not a message was “read” or “unread”. We’re using a different color background for each. This sounds simple enough, but since our rounded divs need to be individually “rounded” by script, the two different display styles on “unread” and “read” required me to invent a new method of initilizing the script to round the corners. I spent about 4 hours on this.

The other things used a lot of repurposed code from other parts of the site, so the work was less thoughtful and more procedural. Still, though, there’s a lot of bits and pieces to each part; it takes a while to get something fully working right.

Something I couldn’t fully get operating is a way to cross-reference a number of different database tables to generate a list of items rencently posted by your friends.

For these last things, I spent 4 hours.

Next week is the big week, and I’ve taken some days off of work in order to dedicate a full day to work. We’ll need some of the time, but I think we’re in a good position to get things delivered in very good shape.