Website Notes

During the process of expanding the development site to include more structured data types I found a few things that need tweaks and other items that need a total reworking. I am in hopes that after doing a final round of testing and validation that this will be the model that I use going forward. Here is what I did.

Pagination is a common feature in any listing page. With the amount of development articles I have been posting, I quickly realized, I was going to need to address paging. But I didn't want to just accept the standard implementation.

My plan didn't come all together yesterday or today. I wasn't really able to knock items off my list. I did, however, manage to make some serious progress on images. During the process I also learned some new things ways to improve my web design and graphic design workflows.

Lately I've been so busy with my non-digital life that I haven't had the time or waking hours to put in any meaningful development on this site. Today, I am going to set the bar high and knock some tasks off the list.

As is always the case with solo development and grand ideas, I have been spending a good amount of time trying to collect a library of images based on my previous research. And to think the thread that lead to this whole research and development path was based on Google Material Icons not playing nice with my progressive web application. I also need to look at some social media research results and decide where I am going to go with it.

After completing a lot of updates to the microdata structure and pondering the importance of structured data object relationships, I decided it was time to register a organization domain. The organization domain will be parked for until I can get this site up and running how I would like, but I will have at least done the hardest part... coming up with a domain name. :D

Now that I have implemented most of the new features and updates to the site, it's time to run a full range of testing and address any possible issues. I am curious to see what these improvements will show when put to the test.

Over the past few days I have collected a list of features I wanted to implement in to the site. Some of these items may require pulling out bits of code or updating the code base, but I believe it will be worth it in the long run.

Time to submit the site to Google Webmaster Tools and Bing Webmaster Tools.

Work has progressed over to the visual side of the spectrum. This post marks the release of the first pass at visual design and hopefully will reveal functionality opportunities for improvement. Here goes nothing!