Scott J Harlow - Web Dev Blog

Final Project Link

2009-05-09T12:18:00.001-04:00

Final Project
http://onepotcooking.com/scottharlow/final

Blog Assignment

2009-04-25T16:36:00.003-04:00

Here is my blog assignment from last week.

Class 9 Assignment
http://onepotcooking.com/scottharlow/class9/

The registration, posts, and comments all seem to be working correctly.

The two things that still need to be worked on are:
1.) using Ajax to make the site more user-friendly
2.) formatting - because although fully functional, this is the uglist blog ever made.

Final Project - Wireframe

2009-04-25T11:08:00.004-04:00

Below is the wireframe for my final project.

The project is based on the NYC Subway System, and anyone who's ever wondered what's immediately outside a certain stop. Is there a Starbucks? An ATM? Which ATM? With this site you can know before you go.

This will primarily be a database driven site relying largely on user-submitted content. Since everyone is an immediate expert on the area next to their home subway station, each user will be given a "station of expertise."

Since the major content will be submitted by users, my work on the project will focus on setting up the database, templates for all the pages, and the user registration/submission process. I will submit my own content for a small section of stations to use as an example in the presentation.

Class #6 Assignment: Add PHP to Storefront

2009-03-28T17:12:00.002-04:00

I was able to get this to work with PHP as well as it was working before. As for the coding, I'm sure it can probably be more efficient, which I will focus on during the week. I originally had all my product image tags in an external CSS file which I have now brought into the main file.

The link to the storefront is:
http://onepotcooking.com/scottharlow/class6/junkstore.php

Within the same directory I used several include files:
_header.php
_menu.php
_breadcrumbs.php
_products.php (which contains all the product thumbnails php code)
_footer.php

The only php code included on the 'junkstore.php' file is for the breadcrumbs.

I still need to tweak the JQuery code because I still have issues with the mouseout function not working when you move the mouse too quickly.

Class #5 Assignment: JQuery Store Front

2009-03-27T23:42:00.002-04:00

Here's my homework for the 5th class:

http://onepotcooking.com/scottharlow/class5/junkstore.html

I've run into a problem with the mouseout function not working if the mouse moves to quickly. I haven't figured out what specifically is causing this, but I believe it's using an external style sheet for the image sources. I might need to play around with that a bit more.

Week #4 - In Class Assignment

2009-03-13T22:45:00.002-04:00

Syracuse was able to win a game in 6 OT, in less time than it took for me to figure this out. In retrospect, it was easy to over-think this. Doing this after the online tutorials was helpful.
For what it's worth, as far as the online javascript lessons: webmonkey > w3schools

Web Form: http://onepotcooking.com/scottharlow/class4/webform_assign.html

Javascript: http://onepotcooking.com/scottharlow/class4/scripts/webform_assign.js

For practice I'm going to try and finish the complicated way I was doing this. But not tonight :)

Class 3 Homework Assignment (In Progress)

2009-03-07T00:59:00.002-05:00

I made decent progress on the homework. The first assignment is basically done, all I need to do is play around with the fonts, colors, and a couple of the margins on the bottom section. The only piece that I struggled with was getting the background image into the drop-down box arrow. It's in there, but it's not centered and I haven't been able to position it properly.

The second assignment actually looks much nicer than the first, surprisingly. I'm not sure if that's a result of getting used to the coding or if it's the way I approached it. There were a couple of things I could not do. One was replacing the submit button with a magnifying glass, which I'm assuming is an image we don't have. I used a letter temporarily. The second was the small, silver, vertical column in the right column's playlist section. I'm not sure what this is.

I have two small sections to finish on the MTV assignment, which I will probably just wrap up in the morning.

Assignment #1:
http://onepotcooking.com/scottharlow/class3/assign1/blackbook.html

Assignment #2:
http://onepotcooking.com/scottharlow/class3/assign2/mtvapp.html

Class #2: Homework - Actor Page Wireframe

2009-02-28T00:07:00.003-05:00

I managed to finish the basic actor wireframe without too much trouble. It is available here: http://www.onepotcooking.com/scottharlow/class2/actorpagehw.html

I used a lot of items in my CSS file, but after going through the final one, I realized I could put most of my properties under one main 'div' selector since they were using most of the same attributes.

The annoying issues I had were mainly positioning, particularly calculating the proper lenghts and widths while taking into account border sizes and padding, margins, etc. To troubleshoot, I made the backgrounds of my bold, contrasting colors so I could figure out which sections were too big or small. I changed the backgrounds back when things were well aligned. I think that tedious process could probably have been avoided if I had been more careful in setting up the inital properties of each box.

Flower Shop: Information Architecture

2009-02-14T16:45:00.002-05:00

This is my design for the Flower Shop front page.

First Post

2009-02-14T09:47:00.000-05:00

"First!" (Don't you hate those people)