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Just a general discussion of the viability of making this app an extension. I believe it can be easily converted to a browser extension. However, I have only had minimal experience with browser extensions.

Opinions and comments welcome.

I think using BootStrap is a good start toward improving our interface, but how should we proceed to further develop it? One idea I was thinking about was making a single column layout in which the user was prompted for information in a series of steps in which divs would expand and collapse. We could create nice transition effects using JQuery. I put a small advice box as a temporary way of displaying output, but I think we have much better options. Ideally, we should have multiple divs that display the information that a student might be interested in knowing. Thoughts?

In terms of organization, I believe if this project is to be worked on more, then we should be more clear about out task management and project organization. I have recently created Github Issues about certain enhancements, and I believe that creating Issues on Github with labels will be great to keep the project tidy.

As far as versioning the project, this may also help if the project expands to a great degree. As of now, versioning may be overkill but its something to discuss and to look into for this project.

There are many versioning methods with positives and negatives to them.

A simple example of a versioning guide for project management is Semantic Versioning. More info can be found here: http://semver.org/

What are your thoughts?

In this issue we can examine bootstrap as it can apply to the project. We can also discuss and debate the pros and cons to using bootstrap in our CSS.

A quick Google Search and my minimal experience rendered the following.

Positives:

1. Clean Code?
2. Mobile First Development - Bootstrap is friendly with many screen sizes.
3. A maintained library
4. Can be obtained and cached from a CDN to improve CSS speed?

Negatives:

1. Foreign Library
2. Heavy Library - Is it slow to load

Feel free to comment and discuss.