Week8

N/A (nothing done)!

Week7

For that week it was about preparing materials to present to the lecturer and to students from my class. This included finishing off my PowerPoint presentation ready to present along with the sample website pages so that people can see what I want my coded website to look like. With the sample website pages this will allow others to see whether it meets the standards of my project brief and the target audience of who my website is supposed to be designed for. This is something similar to what I did for my Website Design unit in the previous year for the HNC. Once my website sample pages have been seen I can wait for the correct approval of if any tweaking needs to be done, improvements or any suggested changes in general. One thing which I haven't yet made is the ghant chart which should show the timescales of what should be done and by what date certain tasks must be completed by. For Week8 my plan is to work on other assignments for the course then come back to the project. Although I say come back to the project I need to make sure that i actually do so rather than forgetting or leaving all the difficult parts until the last minute. Week8 can be for doing the minor parts and presentation bits. 

Week6

N/A (nothing done)! The reason for this is because I have been focusing on other assignments such as finishing the Programming in  Java Assignment 1 along with the Web Applications Development/Internet Server Management Assignment 1. I felt over the past week that these needed more attention as the Programming in Java one had a deadline for the Thursday just gone and the assignment needed a start made to it before continuing with any project related work. The week starting 13th November I will definitely do some project work, this includes finishing the PowerPoint presentation and the templates for my website. Alongside those I may need to check my documentation for this unit just to see if anything needs filling in or talking about in general. I am slightly behind on the project so my current plan is finish assignments ASAP then do project work. In the coming weeks before Christmas i will definitely put in more effort and work towards practically starting my project as i would like a good head start before the Christmas holidays come about. This should include stuff such as getting a ghant chart done and keeping up to date with that and making a layout/colour scheme prepared for the site.

Week5

N/A (nothing done)!

Week4

This blog entry is for the previous week as I forgot to complete it sooner, over that week I decided to take a step back from the project like a mini break. I did some thinking on how I would like my website to look and discussed with friends and family what they think of my ideas so far. Realistically this week there wasn't so much physical work being put into the project as I chose to focus on the Assignment 1 for Programming in Java. My plans for the following week were to complete my website templates and finish my PowerPoint presentation so that is ready for when the time comes. I should have used that week to work on my project a bit more rather than being too chilled but from the week coming 6/11/2017 I plan to complete a plan of action and do some preparations towards officially starting the project. Other plans are this month to start the project properly in terms of practical work. Some of this may include designing a logo, deciding the colour scheme and fonts for the website, choosing the number of pages I want on the website, finalising what content is needed and researching potential code I may need. Overall with the project this wasn't a good week and it was mostly lacking a lot of motivation.

Week3

Over the third week of the project I have been using that time to complete the paperwork that explains the project itself with the initial ideas. I have talked about a range of ideas and decided why they will work and why the wouldn't work (pros and cons). In terms of a chosen idea I have decided to do an internet shopping cart but in the form of a website, the website will be about clothing and jewellery. Additional things I plan to do for the project is photography and editing for my website, this shows that I am going to incorporate some of my media skills into this. Apart from designing the website with the coding I will also talk about the different dimensions and HCI concept as these factors are also a part of websites in general. I have completed the mood boards and explained them plus I have made a brief start to the website templates that will show how the interface is going to look plus show the colours that will be used. In the documentation I have shown examples of a website which I created last year talking about the negatives and positives plus discussing what changes or enhancements I want to make for this one. My next task is to complete the templates, finish the presentation and talk about target audience.
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Week2

Over the past two weeks I have been doing some work on my project, I haven't done loads because the PowerPoint presentation needs to be presented first before proceeding any further with the idea. I have started on a PowerPoint document of a few slides that will state the basics of what my tutor and some class members will expect to see, in the next few days I will finalise it into a completed presentation ready to show to people. I have made two mood boards to visually show what kinds of things I would like to make within my chosen idea, I have chosen that I want to do an online shopping cart but in the form of a website but the go ahead is still pending for this. The pictures shown on the mood boards are linked with website design in general and types of features I would like to attempt on a website which I haven't done last year. To properly show what I want to do I will make a few mock up pages with show the colour scheme and layout of how I want it to look, it may be similar to the home electrical products website I made last year. Obviously the colour scheme I choose now will be different plus I want my website to have the ability to do stuff such as zooms, choosing sizes/types and adding to a cart, etc.