My Methods - Project Drawings Posts

Just a couple of days ago I wrote about My Methods for publishing a blog. The new endeavor of publishing whole sets of project drawings has created a new process. I like to track my progress as I work on a task like this that has so many steps. I considered duplicating this form by printing it out each time to mark up with pen, or storing it in Evernote and opening it in Skitch to record progress, or taking a screenshot of it that can be imported into Penultimate or Inkflow. 

The screenshot imported to Inkflow worked the best by far due to the ease of zooming in so that handwritten text can be fit into the form. However, what works even better is to use the screenshot as the stationery of the Inkflow book of 'Project Drawing Post Checklists'. (Fig. 2)

Here is what the process looks like.

PROJECT DRAWINGS PUBLICATION CHECKLIST

Select Project. _____________________________________________

Select Category: 
Education, Corporate, Commercial, Industrial, Community, Recreation, Green, Govmnt, Misc

Name Post. _____________________________________________

Set up Dropbox folder __________________________________________ (Fig. 1)

Copy dwg files to new folder / rename files __________________________________________

Clean off telltale text / Crop/delete title block data / Delete authorship info

Create Zip file of DWGs / Name file

Create PDFs (if needed)

Copy PDFs To Drive/Ready Folder

Open PDFs in Preview and Obscure Telltale Text / Crop Ea Drawing / Duplicate / Save / Rename

Create Zip file of PDFs / Name file

Edit Icon Master _____________________________________________ (Fig. 3)

Start new post / insert text-image widget / insert 2-col / insert image widget for each sheet (Fig. 4)

Insert icon / text master / images

Edit all images for light box / alt text / captions

Calc SF__________________ / UseGroup _________________/ConstrType _______________

Edit Text / add links to 'Sign-Up' and 'Download' pages

Proof / Publish

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Update 'Download' page:
Insert text-image widget / insert image / copy-paste description 

Add button or e-junkie widget(s) 

Publish

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