Depts

Met with KB, discussed progress, made a couple of style decisions now implemented; worked on the creation of all the landing pages which will be needed but which don't have content (now working).

Meeting to prioritize bugs; fixed a bug with footnotes pointed out by GL; tried to fix another quickly but the fix seems to be incomplete. More time for this after the Keats is handled.

Today's work:

• Converted a bunch more content for testing purposes.
• Created a Transformer replace set to aid in that process.
• Added some files missed by VB.
• Removed all the old template HTML files, since we're generating everything.
• Did a page redesign using all flex.
• Got the banner and the main menu working and styled.
• Got the left column working with the hide/show names button and the period chronology.
• Got half-way through work on the timeline menu.
• Did a lot of styling work on the HTML content.

This is making steady progress, and I hope to have the whole build functional within a few days, leaving only the issue of converting the old content.

In the end, I've been forced to throw away all the existing work because the quality was so poor, and start again. This will actually be a boon, because it means I'm rewriting with modern functionality such as flex, which will simplify things a lot. I have the site building all its pages, but only with the banner and main menu for now; the complexity of the submenus is going to take some figuring out. I've ported a bit more content into the data files so that I have stuff to work with, and in the process made a number of updates to the schema and the Oxygen Author Mode CSS.

The Morris book chapters are different in nature from the original planned document set, so they needed special work to get them integrated into the site build, including the creation of contents pages and fixes for issues looking up the short title of the document for link purposes. These issues are now fixed, and the Morris documents should be working correctly.

Polished off one ticket; cleaned up a lot of bad filenaming and duplication in images; fixed a bunch of bugs in map display; implemented visible distinction of the selected riding in the map.

I think this is working, but it needs thorough testing, and then it can be run as part of an ant task (so that we can be sure to apply it only to the TEI files).

Issue #85 completed: popup layout and captions reorganized per DH's specification.

Fixed some map bugs due to embedding and to URLs without final filenames. Reworked the build process so that where there's no portrait for a person, the popup doesn't have a huge empty space in it. Many other minor bugfixes.

This is surprisingly complicated to do algorithmically, given that there are series of source documents dealing with different date-ranges, but it's now in place, and I've handed ticket 75 back to DH to complete the bibliography markup and check the results.