end of week 7 post

This week our group met after class, and once on Friday evening to discuss the logistics of where we are in our project and where we are heading. It was a good meeting in that we specifically assigned tasks for each person in the group to handle. We decided that it would be good idea to split the group into a "back-end" and a "front-end" team, where the former focuses more on the database side of the project dealing with mysql/php, and the front-end works with fbml, css, etc. Although job tasks will change with each group meeting and all members are flexible in this sense, these are the rough designations we've made. Thus, as someone working more on the front-end of the project, I have been working on creating CSS templates to use for styling different types of resumes. Since resumes can be organized and constructed in different ways, depending on what kind of information one wants to put on it and what kind of information one wants to emphasize, it would be a nice idea to have many different resume templates. So far I have copied down a sample resume into html using tables, and I have styled it as much as possible using CSS. I will have to discuss more with the group to see how the resume forms will, once submitted, be translated (or not) into html files where CSS can be used... Thao has said she will use DIV tags to style the resumes -- perhaps that will be a better method of utilizing the power of CSS in such a way that, so long as the information is gathered through forms, we can utilize that data to arrange many different types of resumes. With tables, however, it appears that most of the information has to be directly entered into each cell; subsequently, the role of CSS is not big. Therefore, maybe it would be easier to simply have different forms to fill out, rather than trying to assemble information in a smart way using css? We will have to see in tomorrow's meeting.... So this week I think it will be a good idea to begin working on the resume forms.