Nate is back!

I got a lot done today. I tried a new technique: get something done, anything, BEFORE you check your email. It helped. I fixed some style things on the calendar to make it look nicer, and I tested a few things. It's about done, really. There are always many small things to tweak, but it works, and it works well. I added a button that clears all selected dates.

Someone on the forum helped me find the problem with the font size being limited. It has to do with the default font that was set in my browser. I guess that that font (Times) doesn't have a character set for larger sizes, perhaps? Anyway, changing the default font fixes the issue! (the helpful post)

Nate and I talked for a while in the afternoon about what I have gotten done and how I can spend the rest of my time. The web page I've been working on doesn't need a lot more right now. I may add small things to it if I need a break from other tasks. We started talking about other visualizations, and I showed him the three mockups I did towards the beginning of my time here ([Edit: Links updated and clarified] floorplan mockup, 1D data mockup, bubble chart mockup). He was impressed with the first two, especially the floorplan mockup. I will work on generalizing these (along the lines of making a library or package), and hopefully we can have a demo of the floorplan one by next Wednesday's meeting (not this week's).

Also, I showed him the thermometer/graph mockup I did in Paint (well, KolourPaint) for Dr. Keller (click for full size) -

- and he had me create a web-ified version of the thermometer as well (click the phrases on that page to try it).

He was interested in the research I did on animated speaking heads in web pages, so I'm going to send him what I found on that as well.

Notes to self:

• My docs are jul17summ and progress lately, jul 17 (and I really need to clean them up)
• Work on bubble chart next