FullCodePress : We Begin!

On Saturday 18 August 2007, teams from Australia and New Zealand will compete to build a fully-operational website for a non-profit organisation in 24 hours. No excuses, no extensions, no budget overruns…

Around 8am : Breakfast of Champions – then I go hunting for a decent coffee shop. The place called 'Expresso' (and no sign of an espresso machine) doesn't look hopeful… Still looking…

Around 9am : First meeting with the client (Grampians disAbility Advocacy Association).

Around 5pm – Paper prototypes of the forms.

Around 6pm – How many coffees does it take to build a website? (I've only had two so far!).

Around 7pm – Peter, Thomas and Ali "in the zone".

Around 8pm – A sneak peak at the Australian team.

Around 11pm – Found time to finish the persona set. I'm starting to run out of things to do!

Around 1am (Sunday) – Mark (Programmer) speaks for the first time in hours… Soon we can start entering the content and applying the templates!

Around 2am – First glimpse of the (from scratch) content management system.

Around 4am – Jeff temporarily loses the plot and goes INSANE!

Around 5am – Panic! We're dumping in the content like mad while Mark plays catch-up. Still a long way to go…

Around 9am – Just 20min to go – uh oh… this doesn't look good…

2 responses to “FullCodePress : We Begin!”

LAURIE

August 18, 2007

Hi Zef – thanks for telling me where you are – NOT!!! Good luck to you and Ali and the rest of the team – I know you will do a fantastic job – can I have a Tshirt please (size 20)- big hugs and love, Mum
MATT GOULD

August 18, 2007

Ha Ha! Zef got in trouble with his Mum! Good luck this weekend, look forward to seeing the finished site!