Monday, December 24, 2007

Various updates

First of all I finished my school's newspaper, which is now available through the pirate version of my school's site I did (here).
I'm also working on the site itself. I just finished uploading all the photos I could get from my school's server to my Picasa account, and now I'm going to embed them all into the site. I'm now working on a major redesign of the photos section, which is going to show flash slide shows from Picasa, with links to the Picasa album itself (as the flash version doesn't work with mobile phones).
I received quite a lot of feedback and suggestions for the developing of the site.
Prof. Gandolfi suggested updating the About page (which I did) and to convert to html the teacher list, including a photo of each one. Some fellow students lamented about the navigation interface, which is too much labirintic. The Oltre la didattica section was then completely removed (it was proven that it didn't contain anything). I added direct links to the Chorus and Newspaper sections in the navigation bar.
It has been suggested to put on those animated/sliding menus, that let you see directly the sub-pages of each section. For avoiding the formatting problems they have I'm thinking about using a good old mouse-over.

On the server side I'm planning to set up customized 404 error pages.

I'm also planning a new movie, but I'm waiting for the new camera to arrive. In the meanwhile I'm collecting photos from my Munich trip (my photos are on the italian blog). I need them for a DVD project, in which I want to put all the photos from the various participants to the trip, along with the video made by my friend Gabriele.

Another DVD project on which I'm working is the one that my school has to produce for the Parmaincontra concourse. We must do a DVD containing both the text of oure historical research (on Guido Picelli) and the video of the show we made on the same subject (I play Mr. Picelli in the show). I'm studying what's the best way to have a disc which has both a data section (containing the text) and a video part (so that it can play on a normal DVD player). Suggestions are always appreciated.
Merry Christmas!

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