Nov
24
Written by:
danielle
11/24/2010 11:01 PM
In the rush to get this site launched (relatively) on time, I had to kill a few of my own babies as far as bug fixes and feature enhancements were concerned so I thought it’d be a good idea to list the coming site improvements:
Bug Fixes
Annoying but necessary.
- Alpha blending in IE browser and problems with semi-transparent backgrounds blending with text
- Fix slow loading/disappearing PNG images on page load (esp. in IE8)
New features & functionalities
Always a good learning opportunity and keeping one’s tools sharp and on point.
- Swap out the cheesy javascript alert on the home page for the scriptaculous lightbox.
- Build out project-specific child pages and link the Coming Soon banner house ads to these new pages rather than parent-level project pages.
- Allow user comments on blog entries – as this is a new site, I thought it wouldn’t hurt to wait to activate this feature.
- Add paging
- Reappropriate the vendor module to list associate members contact and bio details.
- User registration and login features
- Add News and announcements modules
- Add video player
- Add photo gallery
- SEO for best practices
- Analytics for traffic reports so I know how to modify this site to reflect viewer’s preferences.
- Implement customized search on site with auto suggest using Solr and Lucene – this one will be a real doozy as far as development time is concerned, as it will, essentially, be a new search engine app made from the ground up.
Thanks for listening,
- Danielle a.k.a. All Things Technical for P & Co.
P.S. If you have any technical questions or comments related to the development of this site, feel free to email me at danielle@pendarviscrisp.com or support@pendarviscrisp.com.
P.P.S. If you wish to reach out to us on anything related to our organization, send my better half an email at pendarvis@pendarviscrisp.com.