21st; Class Begins; Intro to the class and choosing team assignment preferences.

25th; Team assignments posted by Linda Hemenway;

28th; Met as a team after class; Discussed initial client meeting.

30th; Linda created agenda and questions we are to ask our contact at the Petaluma Arts Council (Karen) Team site is in the initial stages. Jill is brushing up on her HTML skills, css, etc....

Linda M. Drexler; Project Manager ldrexler2@attbi.com (707)837-0462

Evan Widger; Programer (415)898-4944(h) psychol3oy@LinkLine.com (415)892-5393(w)

Yuri Gagaring; Designer (707)568-6988(h) yuri@sonomaimage.com (707)525-1936(w)

Jill Rice; Content Developer (707)763-1708(h) jrice411@attbi.com (707)778-0110(w)

Karen Petersen; Contact (707)778-3972 kpetersen@santarosa.edu (707)778-3974

4th; Linda attends class meeting this week. We are discussing the role of the Project Manager.

6th; We had our first client meeting. We met as a team 15 minutes early ironing out any details before meeting Karen. Everyone was present. As a team and with our client we determined the look and feel of the site. (2 hours total)

11th; Yuri attend class meeting this week. They discuss mock-ups, templates, creative brief and special needs interface.

18th; Evan attends class meeting this week. They discuss what program need the client will need and what type of programming will be done.

20th; We had our second client meeting. We reviewed and revised the storyboard. We also discussed Production Standards. Yuri went over color and more questions regarding the look and feel of the site. Evan discussed the urgency of an ISP with Karen and received a commitment from her. We also received more content in the form of slides, word docs and line art.

25th; Jill attends the class meeting this week. She reports the content received from our client.

29th; Team members tabulate hours spent on the project and also required documents.

Every Friday the team tabulates hours spent on the project.

We communicate via e-mail and phone calls.

Jill has made a copy of the minutes of our first meeting as requested by Karen. Jill is starting her initial storyboard, which we will verify with Karen and make minor adjustments if needed.

Evan has started working on the program-ing for the site. We have picked up initial client content.

We have a very capable team.

At this time everyone is learning their roles in the project. Each team member has been assigned to areas of the Web Proposal due on the 9th of October. As they arrive I will put together our Web Proposal packets.

Linda(PM) is creating the team site. I will also be putting together the strategic brief, production standards,storyboard, work chart, timeline and contracts.

Evan(Programmer) is developing programs used in the client site. He is also working on the technical brief.

Yuri(Designer) is working on the mock-ups for the client site. He is also writing the creative brief.

Jill(Content Developer) is working on the deliverables document. She also has done the minutes at our meetings and developed the shell site.

4th; Everyone stays in contact via e-mail and phone calls. Met as a team on the to view programs and finish deliveralbes(2hrs). I have received finished reports and am compiling them into our Web Proposal Documents.

8th; Linda (PM) met with Karen our contact at the Arts Council. We have all documents signed and approved.

9th; Web Proposal Presentation; Linda, Yuri and Evan attend and present site along with all documents.

11th; We met as a team once again(2hrs) to fix any problems and discuss concerns. Yuri modified mock-ups and is working on turning them into templates.

16; Templates to web pages; converting mock-ups into templates. Yuri and Jill attend class this week. Jill will be adding content for the next few weeks.

30th; Bids and Contracts are discussed. Linda, Evan and Yuri attend class this week. Linda does a short presentation on IP's and what you can expect when working for yourself

We are all working hard as a team. We contact each other as needed through phone calls and e-mails. So far, we have had barely a bump in the road. I know November will be a bit more difficult.

Our Web Proposal Presentation was a great success. All documents were well done by team members and all turned in to me on time. We have all documents signed off by our client at the Petaluma Arts Council.

We have a content cut-off date (Oct.20,)and Karen has committed to an ISP as well as a domain name. We will wait until further notice from her and begin testing the site ourselves in early November.

Jill is working diligently on putting all content on the pages. She has also worked very hard on the resourse page. She has gained permission to use all names, address' , url's used on this page.

Evan is working overtime at this time developing a registry, members form and calendar for the site.

Yuri is working on background images and the icons within all of our pages.

6th; Website Testing, Jill and Yuri will attend class this week.

7th-10; Finishing up site, we are working on last minute graphics, scripts and html formatting.

13th; Optional Web Development meeting. Held in the Stony Point Business Park.

20th; Typical user testing discussed. Linda and Evan attend class this week. Team Meeting-Everyone attended (1hr) before class.

27th; Marketing the website, Jill will attend class this week. Jill will create a classmate testing report. Yuri will work on the client testing report. Linda will be creating a typical user report. Evan will work on equipment testing reports. All reports are due either the 27th (Jill & Yuri) or December 4th (Evan and Linda)

Once again everyone compiles hours worked on the site every Friday. These hours will be used in our final bid.

We are all working on finishing. A lot of final touches are being done by Evan. Suggestions from team member testing is taken into consideration on a few aspects of the site. We will discuss what will be done via team meeting and e-mails.

Everyone enjoy your Thanksgiving this week. It is a good time for me to say, I am thankful for such a good team and client. It isn't always that easy working virtually and I am happy to say things have gone rather smoothly. Thank you also for all of your patience and hard work. I am appreciative.

Working on finishing up all testing. Thank you Jill for preparing our test questions for us. I know I appreciate your efforts and I think I can speak for Yuri as well.

Preparing for hand-off and client training.

4th; Climber's Teams attend, we all will be attending the class this week. We will discuss giving the client a CD with all .psd, image folders, and html pages.

6th; We will meet with Karen for training and hand-off of all materials involved with the website production. Return all slides given and original content.

18th; Final Presentation in Emeritus Hall

Everyone will be helping with finalizing the site.

We will make copies of site for Karen and ourselves.

We will be presenting in Emeritus Hall and would like to invite you to join us. Please refer to this page for final date and time.