Friday, December 7, 2007

Final Release: v1.0

The fourth release for this project has been completed.

Thank you for being patient and understanding clients over the last couple months. We hope that our application meets your needs and exceeds your expectations. It's been a pleasure to work with you.

Here are the release notes:

New features

  • Expanded housing option for returned/target location

  • New button styles, tabs, footer shading, and developer logo

  • Printer-friendly page view option with limited styling

  • Dynamic help links identify the selected questions

  • Additional color selectors for better customization

  • Reduced housing prices for more realistic results

  • Background slightly darkened for better contrast

  • Update button now requires existing search

  • Overall ppearance and flow of layout improved

Current version: 1.0

Version history: link

Thursday, December 6, 2007

Thank you for being a fantastic developer!

Thank you for developing a fantastic product. We, team Erotics, noticed you were receptive to our criticism and comments, as well as creating a product that would satisfy our persona's requirements. Team Erotics thanks you for developing for us.

Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Preview Release: v0.4.3

This preview release will be the last version before the project is finished on Friday. Please take a good look at it and let us know of any last minute changes you want made, because this is your last chance for input. However. we cannot guarantee that we will be able to accommodate any further requests.

In regards to the order of city and state input fields on the first page of the project, please read the comments on last version's post and come to a decision about it. I personally think that the current order is the best for the purposes of meaning and sentence structure, and will not change it unless your group comes to an alternate consensus.

I am not going to write release notes for this pre-release, so to see a list of all changes made, take a look at the version history.

Preview release: 0.4.3

Version history: link

Friday, November 30, 2007

Deadline Release: v0.4.0

The fourth release for this project has been completed.

We have only a week left and if you would like us to make any changes, we need to know right away. Also, let us know what you think of the new logo and title, as your original design (given to us by Kevin) has been modified.

Here are the release notes:

New features
  • New logo and title, based upon your existing design
  • New slogan added to the title bar
  • Inner background color slightly darkened for better form contrast
  • Fully functional advanced options, including:
    • Housing result options such as ownership, price, and distance
    • Search result limitations and results updater
    • New color changer
  • Search form shifts focus to city after state is selected
  • Redesigned and expanded help page
  • Improved design, increased unification, better user flow, and more efficient code

Known issues/future plans
  • Housing price ranges are rather high, and will be lowered
  • Possible choice of housing distance, between target city and result cities
  • A few minor graphical aspects become distorted when font size is changed

Current version: 0.4.0

Version history: link

Thursday, November 29, 2007

More comments about prototypes

Some final comments:

The site looks nice, you've done a nice job. I see what you mean with the city/state organization, until we can come up with something else, if ever, leave that as is. Massachusetts has both Winthrop and Winchester duplicated. They return the same search values, so this seems unnecessary. Is there a way to 'tab back' to the city after you select state? That would be nice. The upper-left corner has a color scale, can we just have that rounded off like the rest of the corners? Also, are there any jobs that can be searched for, but with your selection of languages never gets returned by a search? At some time, I will send you a photo to place atop near the logo. Thank you very much! You've done a fantastic job!

Friday, November 16, 2007

Deadline Release: v0.3.0

The third release for this project has been completed.

We changed the title of the page because we need to put your logo at the top. You mentioned that you were working on a title and logo. Once you give us that information, we can put it at the top.

Here are the release notes:

New features
  • Tabbed navigation with new sections: 'advanced', 'help' and 'about'
  • 'Other' skill customizable with search keywords
  • Preloaded city listings, with plentiful choices
  • Listings for nearby available housing
  • Help links where needed for guidance
  • Icons for housing and description previews
  • Skill set choices greatly expanded
  • Sort order indicators on search result tables
  • New and smaller loading indicator
  • Major data parsing bugs corrected
  • Less intrusive error reporting
  • Temporary title now includes client name

Known issues/future plans
  • Advanced options are not yet implemented
  • Color choices will be moved to the advanced section, along with housing options
  • Help section will be expanded as needed
  • A few minor graphical aspects become distorted when font size is changed

Current version: 0.3.0

Version history: link

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Pick A Loader

One of your groups members didn't like the loading screen, so we are working with other options. If you want us to simply add a loading image in the search result area, you should select between these, which I think look the best:
Loader 1
Loader 3
Loader 4
Loader 6
Or, you can go to this site and find one that you like.

If you like the full screen loader, let us know and we won't change it .