China Stories

Busy busy busy.

19th November 2008, Flora

Sorry I haven't been around for a wee bit - it's been a very very busy couple of weeks!

Next week is my last week on the China Stories website. It's also Ray's last week coding and Del's last week designing for the site. Rob is staying on for another couple of weeks to finish building the myChina section. (That's the section where you will be able to make your own pages with images, videos, text and links).

We've been working on a new 'Homepage' for the website, now the site is getting rather on the big side! Its almost finished and looks good (well done Del)! It gives a wee tester of each section. We're also aiming to get the Changing China section of the site off to testing by Friday 28th.

So, to fill you in for the last week...

I've been keeping in close contact with the team, making sure everybody has everything they need from each other and from me. Del needed sign off on his designs for the homepage. Ray needed me to pin down how I wanted the Changing China navigation to work.

I've been taking all the fantastic material Irene (one of our teacher consultants) has been sending me, and tweaking it to fit the website. The tweaked version goes back to Irene to check over again. The final version then gets sent to our proof reader, Jess. It also gets sent to Janet to translate it for the Gaelic version of the site.

I've been researching some stories and some interesting titbits for the Changing China sections. For example - did you know there were over 5 million primary school teachers in China? That's almost as many as the whole population of Scotland!

I've been making a list of images for Tanya to search our image database for.

I've been contacting people in China (with Xiao's help) to collect quotes for the Changing China vox-pops.

...and I've been trying to find time to keep on top of the production diary too. Well, something had to give!

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