Monday, July 26, 2010

So Close....

Last week I made my goal to make 1,000 resources for the resources page. But that had to be cut short because there were complications with the titles of the resources that were inputted. Some were very general and probably boring to the viewer that is going to see them. So, to make the titles more interesting and grabbing to the viewer, me and our new member to the UH Dorm Competition: Taka is going to go through all the resources and change the titles to be more interesting.

Adding to gathering resources Taka and I are going to recreate the kukuicup-billboard. We are tasked to change the look and the information that is going to be displayed on them. What Taka and I have come up with to work on this project could be found here: Billboard Requirements.

Tune in next week to see what we have done.

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

1000 is the goal

Hello everyone,

So for the past few weeks i have been concentrating on the resources page for the website. On average I think I have inputted about 200 resources a week for the past 2-3 weeks. And now we are at 638 resources. But I am going to make this week a goal to hit 1000 resources, which is twice the average that I have been doing. I think I can do it because I have a bunch of videos that I have found but I have to go through them so that I don't input boring videos.

I am hoping to get this done so I can try and get other things done for the project. I have been working on the skins for different universities in the beginning of the summer and that number is not as high. So I am hoping to get the number of skins high also.

I have found a lot of other dorm energy competitions that use Lucid Dashboard for their competitions. It looks really good; however, I hope in the future, through the many improvements that future students will do for this project, other universities will also use this design.

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

More Resources

Hello Everyone,

Just like last week, I worked on the resources gathering for the project. Now we are close to 400 resources. I'm not too sure of the statistics of each topic but I am thinking now that I do not have that much videos for the site. So... I need to start looking for more videos. I have a bunch more resources today for Biomass so the count should go up to 450. The hardest thing that I am looking for is Careers in Energy savings.

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

All Resources

Hello Everyone,

This week, as apposed to last week, I focused on gathering resources for the project. Also, while gathering information I have found new topics that could be used for the project.

Since last week was the finals for the first summer session, I did not enter that much into the form that gathers the resources, however, I did note resources down to put them into the form later. So...there should be a huge boost in the past couple of days in the resources page. And now that I have more free time to work on the project, I will be able to contribute more toward it. I just hope that my contributions so far and in the future will pay off.