K20 Community Website Project Timeline
Revised Timeline (Nov. 20, 2006)
** note: this page needs to be edited so we can determine whether we're on track to meet our target release date or not. perhaps add status on each item??
Dec. 20, 2006
- Project Module Finished
- National and Regional Themes Finalized
January 30, 2007
- Additional Modules (Events, News, etc.) Completed
- Admin Project Moderation Completed
- Addition of additional regions to pilot
- Multi-site compatability developed
February-April, 2007
- Beta Testing
April 15, 2007
- New Deadline for Full Roll Out
K20 Regional Website Project - Draft Timeline
Early September
- Multisite implementation thoroughly bug checked and operating smoothly.
- Navigation systems completed and implemented within regional and national site
- Create dummy pages all subnav items.
- Test the flow between pages
- Create several page templates to be shared between multiple regional sites, including homepage design
- Define what page layout designs are necessary
- Mock up the page designs in photoshop
- Render the photoshop design files into HTML
- Create the new Drupal template by modifying the original php template in Drupal.
- Figure out how to create and use Blocks and Boxes - integrated into the design using the news module as a content source
- See http://drupal.org/node/509 for more information.
- Finalize and implement national and regional header template design
- Design in photoshop
- Render photoshop design to HTML
- Insert into Drupal template
- User account sign up and edit functionality implemented
- Define user attributes
- Establish permission roles -shared between multiple sites
- Figure out new account approval process (moderated/approved or unmoderated but admin notified?)
- Add roles to the site via the admin interface
- News functionality enabled
- Define attributes of a news story (title, url, teaser text, etc.)
- Define functionality around news stories
- Decide where the content will be displayed
- Select the appropriate page template to display news
- Create a news page
- Create a custom block or box to display teaser stories on the homepage
- Create a custom news module to enable the necessary news functionality
Early November
- Projects module complete
- Events module complete
- Enable site Admin ability to view content from other regions and display content to appear on the homepage.
December 4th, 2006
- Present the beta version of the new national and MAGPI regional site to the K20 community at the I2 Fall Member Meeting.
- Multisite functionality working
- User account creation working in common database
- Ability to create and modify projects by region
- Ability to create and modify news articles and events by region - with ability to share the content between the two
- People directory search
- Theming designs implemented - create a variety of page templates that can be shared between regional and national sites
Post - December Tasks
- Automating the creation of additional regional sites