Week 12

This past week I spent going through the "About" sections of the site.  I decided that it made sense to break out the section into multiple parts.  Most of the Ajiri Tea website is text explaining certain aspects of the business and the people involved.  Here are the following sections:

• About the Company
• About the Tea
• About the Labels (packaging)

For both the tea and labels sections I thought it made sense to break down these sections further.  For instance, when learning more about where the tea comes from I thought it would be useful to read a brief description, delve into the process that brings the tea from the ground to your doorstep, and then display a gallery showing pictures of the tea, farms, and workers that produce the tea.  This natural grouping of content allowed me to create the following sub sections:

• About (Tea/ Labels)
• Process for creating (Tea/ Labels)
• Gallery (Tea/ Labels)

I spent time adding some visual ques to these pages.  That includes adding image headers to the sections, and creating the gallery functionality.  With WordPress you can create a gallery using the gallery tag, from the wysiwyg, or you can loop through the attachments on the page and display all of those images.  I chose to do the later so that I would have more flexibility to display the images.

Moving Forward:

• Start working on presentation
• develop a story
• Also, try to do this on the site
• develop visio diagram ( address book, news articles, wordpress ERDs)
• Talk with my client (see if she has enough content for an awards/ testimonial section of the site)
• Would like to use lightbox to display the images in their full size on the gallery pages. 
• Need to include the brochure on the homepage. 
• Need to reduce the size of the company brochure. 
• Would like to make the "News" & "Search" sections more robust. 
• Plus I need to start clearning up my code and establishing a style for the site.
• Need to hook into social media (facebook & twitter at least).
• Style side navigation to make links bigger, easier to click/ see (label like links)
• Style the main navigation to make it less blocky (Larger plain text, with underline on hover?)
• style "the process" section of the "about" pages