Over the last week we have had great success with getting a working prototype of the interactive search up and running in time. Due to the complexity of both mine and Steve’s sites we both came to a realization that it was impossible to get a full working prototype type up and running in the amount of time left. It was also extremely expensive. After chat with a couple of interested scripters through scriptlance.com I was quoted at least a couple of thousand to get a full social networking site up and running and about 2 months. This was assuming I could provided a graphics base. Steve was having a much similar problem with the e commerce aspect of his proposal. Through discussion we both concluded that we would merge teams and focus on getting the search able database aspect running. Both our sites have a Google maps feature that allows data to be searched and presented using Googles technology. It became our thinking that if we both worked on this part as a collaborative effort we could later take the prototype and further develop it either way for both mine and Steve’s proposals.

At the current time Steve has made a Joomla based engine running at http://www.ilovelocalfood.com/ This is just running off the back of his Creative Explosion Site has he has plenty of upload room left. Whilst Steve has been using his web skills to do this I have been sorting through the 300 or so database entries found by Jason, Steve, Olli, Shweta and myself. This data has been fully complied and broken up into the required categories so Steve’s Joomla engine can search it with ease… “HOPEFULLY”. I have also created a list of pictorial icons which will be used in the map interface. The site also has a user section where people can login and write posts on the food forum section. This is a slightly less technical version of the my proposals social networking ability.

The site is currently with the scripter and hopefully should be done in time for tuesdays presentation.