I have changed the font throughout to Varela and Varela Rounded and updated some colours.
Design
User response to prototypes
I posted the proposed designs to my local Facebook Home Ed group but haven’t got the hoped for responses as the group is a bit biased towards younger children.
Those who did respond preferred the plainest design.
I have now posted to a nationwide Raspberry Pi group and a Home Ed chat group, but I do have to be a bit careful as some groups have a problem with commercial posting and delete things on sight!
Design Mockups
I made these three mockups in Figma and have posted them on my local home education Facebook group asking parents with children aged 10 or over to get the children to Like the image they like best.
They are for this stage in the Skill Chain:
Features needed for the site
Member management
WordPress
Frontend Registration and Login
Advanced Custom Fields
Points
BadgeOS https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/badgeos/ Open Badge compatible
Nested Pages
Custom Post Types either by plugin or coded in functions.php
Newsfeed
BuddyPress
Local Development Environment
Layout sketches
Progress is represented by the “transport map” diagram at the side, and as sections are completed the blobs are replaced by images.
The user profile page will show what has been completed, brief user info and an activity feed.
The sketches were done in the Paper app for iPad.