Today I had, along with Will, a meeting with my Manager about the Thriftway website, providing us with feedback about what we had done and what he would like to see added to the site. We came away with a list of about 12 points that needed to be addressed, which are sat on my desk in the office.

Spent the rest of the day working on code on my local server for integration with the Thriftway site, most of it based upon things that were mentioned. The Flash banner I mentioned previously in this blog got some minor code reworking on the XML feed it uses to gather data. All that it needs now is some AS3 codeing implemented to provide and Alpha Tansition for the text and images.

The other piece of work I undertook today was beginning to switch the current method of searching (based off of scriptaculous and prototype javascript libraries) over to a jQuery based system, which both Will and I prefer. It's giving me a chance to make use of some rather nice features to enhance the search window. It did provide some problems with providing the correct data for the search results, but some snazzy php coding sorted that out pretty quickly. The only remaining hurdle is providing a validation system that deals with some of the other fields. I'll be looking into that tomorrow.

Posted by Wulf on March 24, 2009, 7:11 pm