i put a good 35 hours in trying to knock out as much of the list of remaining elements as possible. Between Aaron and I we almost got them all.

I worked on the following:
- general site fixes (especially on the profile edit, which should be working well now)
- sending messages from the profile page

- friending: when a user first decides to friend another user, an approved entry is made in the DB, and a friend message is sent to the friend user. When that user logs in, they get the message in their inbox, and they have the option to approve or ignore the request. This updates the DB.

- gave the user the functionality to approve or deny testimonials written by other users

- rebuilt a new search page from the structure used for the browse page. give the user many more options for advanced/specific searching

- creating a favoriting system for stories: when a user views a story they haven’t favorited, they see a big star icon at the top of the page. Upon clicking it, an entry is made in the DB that the user has favorited that entry. They can then go and access that point from the list of favorites in their profile. This also allows them to browse others’ favorites.

Pavel and I had a run in on the site earlier this evening, and in the interim, a number of files got rolled back to earlier versions… For ungodly reasons I spent about a good 5 hours just sitting here fixing broken stuff and then I updated the beta site with the new version of the site. I’m going to be working strait through the turn-in today just trying to complete the rest of our features list. I hope to complete it by our meeting. We mean to spend next week mostly making sure everything works properly and fixing stylesheets while we focus more effort toward the presentation with the others.

- Christian