Personal problems week

Marc had some family problems this weekend and I've been sick with the flu so we're a little behind. I mostly setup the look for the page along with the user interface so that we can begin testing. We still need to setup the backend of the the website, so until that's setup, we can only directly take input from Google's AJAX API to show up on the site's front page. At the moment, it's just a Google search map that's stylized to fit the needs of our page. The user interface also uses Javascript to detect the current time and adjusts the user's current time/date to auto set to the current time/date.

Chris has also created icons for the map locations, we're still deliberating on whether the background store opening indicator will be grayscale or colored. Since Marc has also come down with the flu (geez, I hope I didn't give it to him), we're still not too sure yet because this needs to be a group decision. However, I do think that the colors for it need to be a bit more bold than what it is currently, so that it stands out from the Google pastel color scheme. I still also think the search result bar is a little small, but since we're making the map the main focus of the page, I'm not actually sure how to make it larger since the side bar's limit is only 250-300px. I suppose we might need to get some outside input on how much of the map needs to be the focus of the page. But I do now that we would like to avoid using a scroll for most of the page's contents, since it seems more contained if it can all fit in one page.