Over three months ago I posted a blog entry called “ApostolicBook Entry 1″. Since that time, there have been a good amount of things that have changed from the way we had first thought we had wanted them. One of those was the layout of the interface for the user. The layout that we orginally had looked very similar to the new layout that Facebook rolled out. This set us back some because we want to be different from all other social networking websites. Why do we want to be differet? The answer to that is simple. We want to be different because a lot of the social networking wesbites now look a lot like each other and to us (Aaron Ogle, Jared Hilton, and myself) it starts getting boring after a little bit. After this set back we almost totally threw away the design that we had, except I’m thinking about keeping some parts of it and using it in our new layout.
This new design that we have in our mind is very different and I don’t think I have seen anything like it on any other social networking website. We’re not completely sure that the design that we have right now is going to be the final one, but it is a concept of something which is more than nothing! Haha – I wish I could post some pictures of the design that we are thinking of, but the colors don’t really match. It’s a horrible reason why not to post them, but i’m just not going to post them. I will say that we are implenting as much effects as we can without making the website slow so that the users will enjoy using AposolicBook.
If you have any suggestions for us or would like to give us some input, please feel free to let us know!! After we start getting the whole website up and going, we will probably be looking for some people to Alpha Test (not Beta since Alpha comes first) for us. During the Alpha Test we will require the users to give us input and take surveys either every week or every other week, and we will also require users to inform us whenever they run into an error or bug. That way we can see how users like it and improve the website based on their feedback.
Hopefully I will get to post another AposolicBook entry sometime soon and not in another three months. Lol – I’m hoping that by three months from now we will already be in Alpha Testing phase. If we’re not that far into the development of ApostolicBook, then I’m hoping to at least have a majority of the pre-Alpha Testing done. So, pray for us that we have enough time and creativity to do this! Thanks.
God Bless,
Bradley Hilton
