week 11

1. What was in your plan for this week?

This week was the second last week of work before the development hand-in. I planned to create a proper working animation download button and just tweak the micro site.

I also planned to prepair the presentation by emailign david about the white board and a way to hold my A3 sketchs for presentation. I also planned to add a footer with the link to the main site.

Also removing the white top bar and moving the title into the main container for a mor streamline look. Also I added meta tags for a search engine to easily find it but I need mroe help in that matter I believe.

Later I decided after failing expectations to buy webspace for myself and use that to host the microsite and then direct my testing towards the site.
This is located at http://www.geokda.co.uk/15below/CSS/index.html

I also planned to print the final product and the other final versions onto A3 boards for the presentation purpose, to clearly show each page in a way where you can see everything at once.

Following mounting all my palnning and development work onto A3 card, I designed a front cover which in itself is nice but I migth include a more flowing feel as it doesnt look like its part of the project as of yet.

Next was to put all the text documents onto the USB and possibly print it off, but to save paper I will likely just put it in the USB under presentation/testing.

After considering how I would present my comments I wrote them down in word and began to write my questionaire which was my way of testing the website, I did it this way instead of directing the viewer what to do because if the website is interestign enough they will explore it themselves :) and answer questions on it later, if they dont answer soem of them then my design is flawed.


2. What did you actually do this week?

Everything I planned to do from the beginning happened accordingly, apart from the meta data I researched and input into the website has yet to work, I even had problems on another computer finding the site.

I also had a few problems in communication getting prints and webspace but ive taken it into consideration and come out with new options, still I would have liked to have had the printing done this week however it has not been possible.




3. If there are any differences between items 1 & 2, please explain why.

A few but thats all part of planning ahead and have plan B ready and in place.

Just to note I wanted the prints donr this week but I couldnt as I did not get the time required to talk over the principles between printing out a website, so I print screened them and sized them all into 2 variations, one screenshot per A3 and a combo of 4 per A3, ready to be printed next week.

I wish the meta data worked however it doesnt and I will need to proclaim that it should be fixed with more time.


4. What worked well this week?

The final product is very good in all aspects, im glad to have it done with all the tweak variations and the presentation is looking well organised although I should like to prep for questions directed at my work which I have yet to do.


5. What did not work so well this week?

Communication, creative enviroment would have helped my flow a bit better too.

The monotony of creative people in the college wears at me a little, but more so the standard of willingness to aspire, it seems Britain has come down with some sort of virus affecting peoples motivation to succeed I extend this theory to the new generations mainly. I have often wondered about changing the schooling system here, maybe it will help.

I attribute this state to lack of discipline and state of mind, in which you would normally be aware of scoiety, the world around you the politics the economics, but it isnt there in most here, they just go about talking about the same stuff over and over again. Unwilling to reach higher than what they can reach at the moment a small comfort of feeling in control and meaningful, however I am possibly too harsh.



6. What have you learned this week?


People shouldn't underestimate the amount of work it takes to build a website from scratch. Once you have learned it it may be easy, but this is my first full blown project of any design standard in years, a new challenge for me and it does take planning to achieve the goal I want. And I will.



7. Describe all the items that have been added to your portfolio this week.


The final product on line, ready to be printed sheets of the final product and variations and also all my work mounted ready for presentation.



8. Do you have any other comments to make?

I wish I had feedback on this blog that I could respond to or some constructive criticism.

It often helps me being subject or scrutiny rather than handing not getting any feedback as I work through a project and I think its crucial to have this in place, however this is a graded unit assignment and I must follow its rules accordingly



If you, anyone, would like some visuals of my planned please just ask and I will see if I can part with some of it.