Since my last entry things have changed! We have decided to change the topic of the V6 project, instead of the recruitment site we have decided to have a go at putting together an Ecommerce site. We shall start with the back end admin site as this is required to populate the products etc.
We have put together an schema in SQL Server 2005 and are currently checking the relationships and overall design. We won't wait until we think it's 100% complete as we may never start! I would rather get us to 80% and evolve the design as we come across problems that we hadn't (or tried to) anticipate.
V6 has also been launched and I know the guys at Iron Speed have been trying hard to get the message across re the new layout surface. I have to admit at first I was taken aback at the loss of the visual designer but there are some great features that save so much time when adding the more complex layouts that I am hoping I can get by without it. Time will tell and I will be giving you feedback on my experiences.
The live preview is a great new feature in practise, it's a bit slow for instant preview but it is in real time. This project may get a little on the above a small size project so I shall be eager to see what response times I get. I know the guys at Iron Speed are looking at this to see if it can be tuned, the .Net framework is the main cause of the delay, a delay that you would get when running the app in a browser in any case. We may have some news on this shortly...