NaNoWriMo tracker planning

[Spriggan]

SE, I was just thinking over what to do for the NaNoWriMo tracking system you wanted.  Thought I'd send you an e-mail with what I was thinking so I can get started on this soon so I have have it done before the first.

1) user regester, just like twg's.  Simple database stuff, or you can add everyone via thelemurs admin section (add new users).

2) log-in, here a person could enter their title, link to their stories (if the want) and enter their new pagecounts.  For page counts I was thinking just an add a total, not enter the full total.  So if you had 23,000 words done and then write 2,000 you would just enter 2,000 and the site would add the 2 together.

3) on the main page have a chart that would show each users current page count, probaly a bar graph.

4) Maybe a calender that would mark what your page total should be and would list who's on target for the 50k.  This might not go in since it would take a bit of codeing and not sure if you want.


Let me know

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

well, I like all those ideas, and I had the "who's on goal" thing last year. The easiest way is just to do the math at the beginning, so each day has a total word count that needs to be done, and if you have that or more, you're on target.

The only thing is with #2. The way I did word counts was to look at the total count, since I had it all in one document and earlier words might get written. SO the easiest thing for a user to do is do the word count on word, and enter the grand total in. The site should do the subtraction, rather than the addition.

[Spriggan]

can do.  Mind if I make the changes to the WG data base so I can get this working by next week?  Just want your approaval.

Oh, and do you mind if it's in flash?  might be easier for me if it is.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

Flash is aok with me. And go ahead, do what you need to do.

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

Here's a nice little tack board for your own self. http://erikbenson.com/nanowrimo-report-card.xls

You can track yourself, and keep little notes. And other useful things. Have fun.

[House of Mustard]

Wow Gemm.  That's very cool.

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

I know. Danka's and all. I can't take all the credit for it.

[Spriggan]

Ok, I've finaly set upon something I like, though I have to redo some of the backend to get it to work.

On the main calender page each day will have the day, goal, #of words typed that day (for all participents) and % of people that reached that day's goal.  Then when you click on the day it'll goto a new page that will list all the individual stats.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

will it let us type in just our current total, figuring out the daily number based on what we'd done previously?

[Spriggan]

yep, becaue thats what you wanted.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

Thanks. I'm just not used to people actually listening to me.

[Spriggan]

Well condiering that SE's FTP dosen't want to play nicely you're not going to see the final version for quite a while.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

what's it doing? I used it thismorning and had no problems.

[Spriggan]

It seams to be working now, but for a while it wouldn't actualy save things to it, which was weird.  Anyway I was hopeing to use that as an excuse since I'm still working out the best way to layout the database, but I'll probaly go with what I originaly planned since there aren't too maby people that will be viewing this, so it dosen't matter how efficent it is.

http://writers-group.org/NaNoWriMo/2004/cal.php is how the actual calender is looking, I don't have the day and user stats up yet.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

sweet. Looks good!