Facebook Application: Entrustment and Launch

It fell to me to write numerous descriptions for various parts of Facebook and a webpage to include extra information about the purpose of our application. It was not long before I found that writing about our project was not going to be as straight forward or funny as first I first imagined. I had been looking forward to making several slights against George Bush’s record as President, only to realise that I needed to remain impartial, for our application to remain within its purpose of judging the general mood towards Bush now he has gone.

So I began in sober mood to write about our application, our purpose and to formulate a ‘Privacy Policy and Terms of Service’. It all felt a little flat and far from our original discussion of adding humour or creating the correct mood and enticing new users. To use emotive language to create agreement or outrage and hopefully hook both groups into taking part and using our application. After a while I did find ways of adding, I hope, a little spice to encourage the user to make a stand and partake.

On completion of all the needed text, I found a free webhost and started to build a website, well a webpage that maybe later would become a website. I used ‘The Gimp’ an open source graphical manipulator to create a title and border then I added the text and the website was complete:

http://savethebush.comli.com

I spent some time adding a little css to ensure the border picture repeated down the left-hand side of the page, as well ensuring the text remained unchanged throughout. I removed and corrected some of my elemental html mistakes, then evaluated the finished product to find it unreadable. Therefore, I added more css to provide margins to the text that added a uniformity that helped the user to read quickly and accurately.

On completion of this stage in development, I email my team mate to make him aware of the webhost I had secured and the domain name ‘savethebush’. This would allow him to gain access to the pictures of George Bush that we’d agreed would be ideal for our application. As well as allowing him to make a judgement on what would be needed to bring webpage up to a professional standard. As he had far more experience than I in this field. This would also allow him to ask for help in completing his part of the task.

The application was completed on the 5th of February and launched. During the on-line testing a number of items needed to changed. Please see the finished application at:

http://apps.facebook.com/save_bush