Spent a lot of time today finetuning and finalising the Flash Rotator I had first developed upon starting my placement with Thriftway. It can now be seen on the Thriftway Travel Site. It's not quite perfect, but it is functional.

In addition to this I threw together a quick "now searching" flash animation for the inline flight search. We had identified problems with the gif file, as it froze on certain browsers once another page began loading. The flash one, however, just keeps on going, which lets the end user see that something is going on.

I have also been working on restructuring the individual posts layouts to a more appealing layout. I hope to finalize these on Monday and get them rolled out.

I have a rather lengthy list of mini-projects to kep me busy once that's done and out of the way. Included in these are:

• Implement a Hotel Search and Insurance section into the Thriftway Site
• Finish layouts for individual posts
• Set up a blog for staff to post on
• Produce a site for Thriftway Travel's English brand, Capricorn Travel
• Design window posters for the retail section
• Finalise jQuery search engine

I also gave a presentation yesterday as part of my FDMM course. It included a workshop which looked at aspects of the Thriftway site, which has provided us with plenty of feedback to take into consideration for further developments to the site. All in all, it looks like next week will have plenty to keep me busy.

Posted by Wulf on March 27, 2009, 5:26 pm