At long last, the timeline has been posted on our project site! However, I’m not entirely happy with the way it displays on the page. The timeline itself seems so small and surrounded by massive amounts of white space, which cuts off or distorts some of the content inside the timeline. After a conversation with my incredibly patient brother-in-law (who writes and reads code on a daily basis like it actually makes sense), he told me that my problem with the way the timeline is displayed has nothing to do with the embed code from Timeline JS. Apparently the timeline is displaying in the space that the WordPress page has given it, which isn’t very much. I know roughly where to look to change that (probably), but I don’t think that we have the permissions to actually do it. That said, I’m just happy the timeline is completed and on the site!

Savannah is still taming Juxtapose, but throughout this week and weekend the two of us will be able to craft the pages we’ve planned for individual yearbooks. We’re rapidly approaching the end of this project!

The past week has been obnoxiously busy, so I haven’t gotten much more work done on the timeline. But on the bright side, I successfully presented my English capstone project, so now I don’t have to worry about that anymore! It’s only one thing that I can cross off of my intimidating to-do list, but I’ll take what I can get right now. This week I want to (fingers crossed) finish the timeline so that Savannah and I can start focusing on the pages for the yearbooks after we finish our individual aspects of the project. We have all of the information we want to share, and now we’re just working on putting it all together!

After creating a rough schedule to keep the project on track, Savannah and I have been working with the different digital tools we want to use on the project site. She’s been working with Juxtapose JS, and I’ve been tackling Timeline JS. Over the past week, I’ve been attempting to figure exactly what information I want to put in the timeline. I also spent more time than I thought I would getting images from the yearbooks to use both on the project site and in the timeline, although that could just be because I kept getting distracted by the content of the books and forgetting that I was on a mission. Basically, the timeline will place The Cohongoroota in a larger historical context, but this is also where we’ll explain the gaps in publication and set the stage to look at the yearbooks in more detail.

I also spent some time messing around with our project site in what was probably a futile attempt to avoid problems later on, but I wanted to make sure that I wasn’t spending all of my time looking at the information we have and forgetting about the project site.

Both Savannah and I graduate this semester, so life is a little stressful at the moment, but we’re moving forward and I’m looking forward to when we can share the more visually interesting parts of our project. We have a plan. We can do this.