Milestone 4

It has finally come to an end and we have actually almost finished a working website which hopefully our professor will keep working with...

Joomla! is a great CMS. I think for a first time website creator, Joomla is the best and easiest way to work with. In the beginning, I worked with SilverStripe, which is also a great CMS, but I think because there is no standardization within SilverStripe there are a lot of complications. One being
tinyMCE which filters out html code when inputted by the user. That fix could be found here. And switching between themes, which makes code that did work not work.

But anyway, what my group and I made so far could be found here. And this is what the main page looks like.



For participants in the competition to log in they will login through the UH CAS login system. Then it will display their own file and dorm energy statistics in the Energy Data tab. They will then be able to see Activities/Events that the admin has posted and what they have submitted (we worked on this so hard for this last milestone because of trying to remember databases).







This next image shows what the admin would see when they login and post or accept/deny participant's submissions.




So, this was our main project for this semester. Creating a website that handles users/participants in the UH Dorm Energy Competition, but there was other groups in my class that worked on different projects that will be tied with our project. Those projects could be found here. Hopefully continuing ICS majors will use what we have developed and UH will use what we started for the Dorm Energy Competition.