Final Handover Presentation

1. DESIGNTAB
From Conception to Concreteness

2. So… What was this project
again?
• A website where people could come to learn more about web
design
• Friendly, informal and easy to follow tutorials
• Video Tutorials
• Written Articles
• Forum

3. Development
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Platforms
The FEEL
Layout
Blog Theme
Forum Theme
Tutorials

4. Platforms - Blog
• Wordpress
• Popular
• Easy to manage
• Easily extended through
plugins
• Strong templating engine
• Well documented
• Lessons
• Excellent choice for time
management
• Heavily documented
• Strong templating system
• Great plugin system
• Bulky, possible to create a
leaner system from scratch to
achieve a more tailored
platform

5. Platforms - Forum
• Invision Power Board
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Powerful
Fast
Lots of features
Personal Portfolio
Personal Blog
Friends System

6. Blog - Before

7. Blog - After

8. Blog - After

9. Forum - Before

10. Forum - After

11. Plugins
• Syntax highlighter Evolved
• http://wordpress.org/plugins/syntaxhighlighterpro
• Wysija Newsletters
• http://wordpress.org/plugins/wysija-newsletters
• Custom
• DesignTab Social Media Plugin
• Custom made to ensure fluid integration with theme

12. Early Tutorials
• Problems
• Bad voice quality
• Text hard to read in video
• Unattractive transitions between windows
• Fixes
• Upgrading to a condenser microphone
• Animated zooms and repositioning of the camera during
important sections
• More focus on pre-recording organisaton

13. The Tutorial Cycle
Re-record
/ Edit if
minor
Planning
2 day trial
for
feedback
PreRecording
Setup
Record

14. For the future
• Create a custom platform in a language like ruby
• More reliance on version control
• Publically viewable and collaborative documentation (e.g.
Google Docs)
• Further the range of feedback to more experienced designers
to get ideas from both the newbie and experienced spectrums
• To-Do Board (priority step by step list)
• Try to spend less time re-creating the wheel
• Post-Launch: Set up an analytics and statistics program over a
certain period and apply changes based on the results
• Set up an automated backup system

15. Thank You