No, I’m not dead. :) School is definitely taking its toll, but things should be a bit smoother from here out, with no major assignments left other than my finals.

Anyway, that’s boring. :) More importantly, I’ve made a mockup of the pedigree view:

Over the next little while I’ll be testing a few different ideas for viewing and editing data. (For example, since this is a web app, should I display the whole tree and make the user scroll, or should I chunk it into three or four generations at a time? Are the fancy boxes around each individual necessary? When the user clicks on an individual or a family, should it take them to a new detail page, or should it bring up a lightbox-ish modal dialog box, or something else?) This is admittedly a bit spartan, but I think I’ll stick with this black-line pedigree layout (since it does work) until I get everything else done. Then and only then will I consider adding colored boxes and all of that.

Anyway, I’ve got to run, but I’ll be making more time for Beyond now that my Music 201 paper is done.

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