CMS nightmare!

Building Bob's website this week has been very very challenging! This is the first time that I have ever touched Wordpress, so trying to figure out how it was to integrate into a website using CSS and PHP was beyond me at first. I don't know if I was just too tired when I first looked at the coding for the CMS, but for some reason, the next day when I tried to sort things out - it worked!

This week has been the biggest learning curve for me, firstly getting to grips with the CMS and then also dabbling with the PHP side of things. Customising headers and footers so that content can be generated is tricky and I've still to get the images page to work as we designed it to.

Once problem I have had to encounter this week was concerning images. Putting a background image on things like the header div didn't want to work, which mean our header image and rollover images didn't show up. This problem took me quite a while to sort out, I had to insert the image into the xhtml for it to work properly, which meant that the rollover hovers won't work now because the CSS required them as a background image. It's a small sacrifice when you consider the amount of time and effort that has gone into building this one page.

I've still got a considerable amount of work to be doing, firstly I've got to finish off building the remaining pages to Bob's website and write up a user manual for him. Then when Chris has chosen a design, I need to commence building that website too. We've haven't got much time left before client handover now and I need to be thinking about my evaluation. I would really like my Christmas holidays to be a relaxing time, so would like to get most of the work out of the way for our group submission in January.

The time has gone so fast over the past 3 months, it almost seems unreal to think that around 12 weeks ago, we were just returning to college after the summer holidays.