14. Anticipation (Negative)

Interview is tomorrow. Slightly worried that I'll suddenly forget everything I know about HTML and CSS, but more sick of waiting than anything else.

I just want it to be over.

We got most of the pages to validate in the end, which was a pleasant surprise. Credit for that must go to Kelly, who spent ages slaving over the code without our knowledge, and then suddenly declared she had validated them.

Now we wait...

13. And now, the end is near... (Positive)

On Tuesday the four of us had a website meeting. For those of you who've just joined us, that's James W, Max, Kelly and I. Anyway, we discussed the site and it transpired that we were very pleased with it. We organised jobs for the final week and set an ideal time for our interview with the lecturer.

There were some more things to add though. I sorted out some CSS bugs that were irritating us, and added some new things to the CSS file. Then I drew a more accurate sitemap than the original one, and just minutes ago I added a very snazzy chat widget to the contacts page. It'll allow us to communicate about the site easily, with any luck.

Following that, it only remains to look at the site for a few days until we're so sick of it we'd rather fail, editing the tiniest things just to feel like we're still working on it.

But really, it's all done. So I'm very pleased.

12. If it isn't broken... (Negative)

This morning we had our final lecture in Computer Applications (for our new readers: that's the website-building module) and just for giggles the lecturer opened the group wiki to check how things were progressing.

It didn't go well.

Our group is still at the top of the list, and we're pretty happy with the site so far, but when he opened the page (in Internet Exploiter) there was nothing.

Completely blank page.

Embarrassing. Especially for me, 'cos there were only two people from my group there, and I've become the de facto project leader, *and* I was the last person I know of to be working on the damn thing.

Needless to say, I raced home (luckily it was a short lecture) and spent half an hour fixing the problem. The solution? Revert to a backup version of the page.

Sigh.

Project meeting tomorrow.

11. Getting it together (Positive)

Right. A week and a bit remains until our November 23 deadline for the website. Fun times, you might say. Or not. But they are kinda fun. We've been watching other people panic a bit about their websites and it's made us a little less worried and a little more pleased with the work we've done.

To be more specific, recently I mentioned that I'd been working on a feedback form for the site. That is uploaded now, and all that remains is to get it submitting feedback to somewhere. I'm pretty happy with it, basic as it is, because I got it to work. I really want to get the CGI working though, otherwise the whole thing is pointless. I have one or two ideas in that direction...

10. Web work update and procrastination (Negative)

I've been getting terribly slack with this blog lately, but at least I can tell myself 'I told you so'.

Anyway, web work. It's been going very well, it's just that I haven't been posting it. So my updates are:
- I've done my Continuum page. It needs a bit of work but it is up and I'm pleased with it.
- I spent a considerable amount of time fiddling with the page last week. I changed the original gradient background of the page to a more boring but cleaner and easier-to-read-on plain black.
- Today I'm working on forms for a planned feedback page. Dunno if the feedback will actually be getting back to us, but there will be a feedback form regardless.

Procrastination: I'm using it to forget about my Java project. This is not a good thing. I need to take a serious look at it. This is a reminder to myself.