Friday 5th May, Final Day
So today was the final day of my Work Based Learning Placement with Thriftway Travel. I've spent this week performing minor tweaks to the site to get it working as smoothly as possible. Today saw me working on something with a bit more substance to it, getting the Blog section of the site up and running for use in the future. Turns out that it was a LOT easier than setting things up with flutter was, probably because Wordpress is meant to be used as a blog.
I've learnt a lot during my placement at Thriftway Travel Will has helped improve my graphical work and typography a great deal in the time I was there and I think I've helped him with his PHP, even if only to reaffirm his hatred of coding.
So with my placement having ended I'll find myself with a lot more time on my hands... I'll be using this to actually put some updates on the site, I have some stuff to talk about that I just haven't had the time to site down and work over. I'll also be working on my own Admin Panel/CMS section to get the functionality I need fully functioning and then work on extra extensions to the code that I know other people will want to use.
Posted by Wulf on June 5, 2009, 9:09 pm with 1 comment - Permalink
Friday 29th May
Yesterday I worked on finishing up some more of the little details of the Thriftway Travel Site. The Round-the-World fares layout has been finished off, and a few changes to the front page have been implemented, in a manner that alerts the user that there are more deals than just those listed on the front page. I also added some flight deals to the site, something that has been lacking for a long time.
I'm thinking that I'm going to try and wrap up my placement over the next week. I honestly don't have much to do and most of it will be completable within a week. The main thing left needing done is some way to rotate deals displayed on the front page. I'm thinking I should be able to implement that in some manner using some smart php coding.
Posted by Wulf on May 30, 2009, 10:51 pm with 0 comments - Permalink
Wednesday 27th May
Today was spent doing not a whole lot. Late in the day I had a bug brought to my attention by a member of staff. He had noticed that the text in the categories had gotten rather big in the majority of the posts. The browser in question was the dreaded Internet Explorer. Most people who work in web design that I know dread bugtesting sites in Internet Explorer, especially Internet Explorer 6. It can throw out errors for the most silly of reasons. As a result of this I went in expecting it to be a fault with the browser rather than anything else.
This was not the case however. It turns out that I had managed to leave out a / from a span tag, so rather than closing things as I had intended, I had actually opened another instance of a span. Firefox seemed to deal with this just fine, but Internet Explorer rendered it the way it read the code, and horror ensued. I swiftly resolved the error and everything works fine once again.
After this I was given some Round the World flights to add to the site. They're proving to be quite the pain to handle because of the whole Flutter thing. There was a shiny new update to it today though, so maybe I'll make some progress when I'm back in on Friday.
This will be the final entry in my Placement Log as the hand in is tomorrow and I won't have any additions to make to it before submission date.
Posted by Wulf on May 27, 2009, 6:59 pm with 0 comments - Permalink
Thursday 26th May
Today was spent without doing a whole lot of work at all. The Thriftway site is all but complete and I spent the day ironing out as many bugs as possible as well as helping Will get to grips with how to use the site to add new content.
Aside from this I spent most of the time I was there ensuring that as much of my Work Based Learning material was in order for completion of my Coursework.
Posted by Wulf on May 26, 2009, 9:05 pm with 0 comments - Permalink
Monday 25th May
Today I polished off some extra pieces on the Thriftway Travel site, mainly regarding compatibility with Internet Explorer, and updating the newsletter form.
I am also slowly working towards wrapping up my placement now I think, making sure that Will can make sense of the brutality I've inflicted upon the poor Wordpress package. Hopefully he'll be able to make some form of sense out of them.
I also managed to make an impressive amount of headway with my final piece of coursework that relates to the Work Based Learning course.
Tomorrow I'll probably be working on some more polishing of the Thriftway site, setting up the RSS feed with feedburner and other minor details.
Posted by Wulf on May 25, 2009, 7:22 pm with 0 comments - Permalink
