It's 2:13 am and I just uploaded the finished tutorials and interviews to Dropbox. I was in the process of finishing everything up Saturday evening when we had that power outage in Clemson. I ended up losing some work because I didn't save, but it wasn't a major setback. Although I'd originally intended to have 5 HTML files--the two interviews, book tutorial, template tutorial, and paragraph style tutorial--I ended up with 4. During the process of creating the template tutorial, it became apparent to me that the template and paragraph style instructions should be merged.
This week I collaborated with Trish on our showcase posters and handouts. We got everything done on Monday evening, and I had everything printed at the library.
This week I also worked on converting the Uses of Grammar text into the EPub format. Unfortunately, I ran into more issues that I originally anticipated.
This week I finished the layout for the book. The content has been sent to the author for review and for him to revise. I also built the cover design in InDesign. Finally, I made a plan for the showcase next week.
Submitted by gsouthe on Wed, 11/30/2011 - 08:17
As I continue to progress towards the final project, I cannot help but to focus on the negative. It is not a lack of optimism on my part. Rather, I seem quick to fixate on trees in the forest that then halt me on the trail. Therefore I must beg your patience, dear reader, as I begin by discussing recent errors in my process before moving into my plan-of-action.
Submitted by J.J. on Wed, 11/30/2011 - 03:21
Lots of progress has been made. Over the break I got some preliminary slides ready for a video display of the new features being added to the Parlor Press site and I've also had a couple conceptual breakthroughs as well. Permission issues with webforms have now been solved and except for a few tweaks that are left to be made are fully functional. Permissions were attended to with a couple module additions and the use of block visibility options which are really easy to control.
Turner and I have been working together, as our projects have been very similar, and we do not want to merely repeat ourselves. The display we are doing will house information on the various software available for creating ebooks such as Sigil, KindleGen, InDesign, and Calibre. The display is also housing information on the Nook, Kindle, and the iPad, as well as the epub and .mobi file formats.
Over Thanksgiving break I finished my display poster for the showcase. The poster overviews the project, my goals, problems/difficulties, and reflections. I am going to have it printed up at Staples this week.
I also used Hype to make a small mobile site for the project. The mobile site contains a few fun infographics I made that relate to the design/layout process. I also have a QR code that links directly to the site.
Emily and I have been working on our presentation portion for our digital versions of two Parlor Press Books. We have decided to go with a "science fair" type display with information about the different type of file formats and the different types of e-readers (the most popular ones). We will also have examples of e-readers there with a Nook, iPad, and Kindle (which are the most popular). In addition we will have handouts that include "how to's" and useful websites where people can find out more information about the entire e-book process.
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