Hello everyone,

Last post I talked about RSS feeds, which is really a great feature that could be used for gathering information for users to look at for our project. However, the way we set up our google spreadsheet to gather information is through a form. I would really like to use RSS feeds because it is recent postings from others about a topic they advertise, such as news RSS feeds, energy websites RSS feeds, teachers of the university in the sustainability field RSS feeds. Instead of the "project makers" going around and looking for information and manually entering it into the form, I am trying to figure a way for the command importfeed and the form that we enter the information we find to work with each other. Also, if the form gets to a limit, it will delete entries so that it does not get full. Any ideas of getting this to work would be greatly appreciated.

I don't mind looking around for information because it teaches me about things also, but I think that it could be very useful for us not to manually enter information all the time.

Other things that I am doing this week is CSS file for the website. What I have thought of doing is different themes for each type of energy savings, such as solar, wind, geothermal, and hydro. Also, I tried to make a base page that follows the UH Manoa theme. What I have done so far is the following. However, the different themes for each energy savings is tasking because the pictures I try to gather looks odd when displayed on the homepage. It takes up a lot of time to try and make the pictures flow.

This one I tried to follow the main UH Manoa website theme with the symbol on the top left. I added the picture of the 4 different types of energy savings to add a little of what the website is about.


This one I just tried to fool around with looks.



The following is the beginning of the different types energy themes. If you look at the windmill one, it looks a little odd. Not with just these two pictures but other pictures that i experimented with also. I chose to display this one because it looked the best of the others.


The solar theme i was going to have the sun and a solar panel, but like I said it doesn't look that great. So I tried doing it like this and I think it came out better, but I still want something like the sun and solar panel.


So far I think the themes look a lot basic, but I want the themes to work with the website. I am not a great visual graphic person but if there are any other ways that could help me would be really really appreciated because the things I did so far looks a bit funny. Themeroller was the first thing I used but it only puts color in tabs and changes fonts. The page still looks plain. That is why i am putting pictures in the site, but that comes out weird also. So again any help would be appreciated.