Y.S.A.+rough+ideas

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=Y.S.A.R Rough Ideas=

Ok so I guess this will be set up as a msn convo type thing:


 * JAN 11**

Alex: HIIIII. Add your rough ideas here!

ALEX: the sorting of information shown in the structure of the Adobe awards site might be helpful for info on credits and such. I'm going to look into the kinds of courses for VISA students (I'm assuming we're sticking to program specific courses or it would get waaay too complicated.) If you find anything else, examples of sorting list:
 * JAN 18**


 * SORTING**
 * uniqlo.com : japanese clothing store, I guess it's a more common way of sorting these days for online stores but I kind of like theirs


 * Event/News Organization**

So I was thinking about how the main page might include news/events type stuff and decided to look at how some other people do it. These aren't necessarily really good but If you guys see any post some links! I wanted to look at how sites like newspapers/big blogs do it, etc.


 * Toronto Star
 * BlogTO


 * Alex: COURSE STUFF!!**

VISA courses

Major degree requirements

Hey guys...we were talking about main "strands" or whatever, as in paths you could take. For VISA I'm not sure there really is that sort of thing (compared to how it is for us). I think we need more info. That's the link for their courses. I think I'm going to try to go to their head office tomorrow and get a handbook or something so we can sort this more effectively if this is where we want to really develop to the site.

I suppose we could tell you what you could eventually do, not really streams or whatever but the courses you might want to check out for the future so you know what to do now.

In which case, maybe there is the option on our site to view the course credit diagram thing with year 1 first AND with year 4 first. So you can see it backwards and see what you might want to do first. Just a thought. I'm looking at how we might organize that section now so I guess we'll talk soon.


 * JAN 26**

Alex: I just wanted to note this here so I didn't forget later. It would be cool to do a credit count or something. A tab at the bottom or something so that if you login it will tell you how many credits you need, and even potentially show you which of the courses displayed you have already completed or are in progress. (Obviously we wouldn't have to actually make that functional)


 * FEB 2

Jquery links: Alex:

BXSlider Content slider: http://bxslider.com/demos.php

MB Ideas http://pupunzi.com/#welcome.html

Accordion http://jquery.bassistance.de/accordion/demo/

Scroll http://project.yctin.com/ajaxscroll/demo/demo.integrate.fullsize.html

Cursor Message http://plugins.jquery.com/project/CursorMessage

****FEB 8**

Alex: we shouldn't forget about site content. I'm compiling some stuff for the events pages and such for whoever is going to be organizing that bit. If you want to check it out, the link's below: http://www.yorku.ca/finearts/visa/events/

- also this gave me an idea about potentially including an iCal link. It doesn't have to necessarily work but since I am compiling the info anyways I can do it in that format so we can make it available.

Alex: I just found a course manager link that includes pdfs of course outlines made available to students. Maybe our prototype scenario can show that feature as well.