I spent a huge amount of time working on the site this week - won’t go in to specifics with times, but I spent a full 40 hours banging on the thing over the whole week.

A lot of the time was spent applying a good deal of Ajax-based interactive features. You can see this reflected the most obviously on the story page - the only time you’ll ever actually “load” this page is when you’re viewing a completely new story (as opposed to contributions). Everything loads and refreshes with ajax. It’s pretty smooth.

There’s a good amount of ajax on the profile sub-pages as well.

Besides the AJAX, I worked mainly on general improvements to the way the site looked. There’s a lot that goes into the site - and a lot to keep consistent across the multiple pages we have. Having 3 people working directly on the code of the site lead to a good amount of disparity in graphics and the terms we use. I brought everything to use a unified style.

The site is in very good shape, I think. The work that the team put into it over the last few days really polished it. I’m confident for our presentation Tuesday.