HTML- HTML is used in a website for body text. You use it for inserting your content on your site. If you have purely a HTML document as a website, you will see a horizontel page of text and images. HTML is the building-block of any website.
It uses HTML tags such as <h1> </h1> for a heading and <strong> </strong> which can be formatted in CSS. The first tag, <h1> opens the tag and </h1> closes the tag. The content goes in-between.
CSS - CSS is used for formatting your HTML. To change the way your page looks, you use CSS from changing the font colour to putting your content into columns. These days, if you don't put the formatting into the CSS document(s) rather than the HTML then your website is not W3C compliant.
CSS looks like this:
body
{
color: white;
background: black;
}
This would format the content under the <body> </body> tag in the HTML document so that the background of that area goes black and the font will go white.
HTML & CSS are linked together in the <head> </head> tag with the code <link rel="stylesheet" href="homepage.css">.
Fireworks - Fireworks works as a basic photo manipulation program such as Photoshop or GIMP but in essense Fireworks is a bitmap and vector graphics editor. This means that you can create images for websites and if they are resized then they will not loose quality. This is quite important within web design.
They allow you to use a variety of tools to aid you in creating graphics such as Marquee's, pen tools, brushes, stamps and text (these are just a few). It also uses Layers which allow the user to navigate around their graphics easily so if you make a mistake on one layer, it doesn't compromise the image as a whole.
Friday, 17 June 2011
Monday, 6 June 2011
Evaluation
Through-out this project, our team has had both good and bad days with absences, slacking etc.
In this post, I hope to look at what went well with our project as well as what didn't go quite as well.
What went well?
13th March - Website Design. We were given the task to create a wireframe product of what we would like our website to look like. I think this went quite well as we all got to work on an individual design that we liked then got to come together and discuss the aspects of our designs. In the end, we decided to merge aspects from all three designs.
19th March - Logo Design. I think that this went well for all the same reasons that the website design went well. We all went off and created a logo for our website before coming together and discussing. Again, we ended up taking aspects from all three logos.
25th May - Meeting. The meeting was a real help for me with the project plan as well as finding out exactly where we all were. After the meeting, I was able to amend my project plan so that it was correct.
What didn't go so well?
28th Janurary - Tools & Techniques. I made quite a big mistake when trying to think ahead and the types of tools and techniques that we would be using. We ended up only really using two techniques & one tool, HTML, CSS & Notepad.
15th April - Project Plan. This part of the project really didn't go well for any of. Although Microsoft Project is a pretty simplistic program, we all ended up finding it quite hard to create a useable plan. We later had to amend our plan in our meeting on the 25th.
10th May - Final Layout Design. This aspect of the project, at first, went wrong and this was down to me. I took it upon myself to create the actual design of the website and coding it (taking the other two's aspects into consideration). This was not part of the assigment. We were suppose to do our own parts of the website in both design and coding. We ended up redoing the website later that month.
In this post, I hope to look at what went well with our project as well as what didn't go quite as well.
What went well?
13th March - Website Design. We were given the task to create a wireframe product of what we would like our website to look like. I think this went quite well as we all got to work on an individual design that we liked then got to come together and discuss the aspects of our designs. In the end, we decided to merge aspects from all three designs.
19th March - Logo Design. I think that this went well for all the same reasons that the website design went well. We all went off and created a logo for our website before coming together and discussing. Again, we ended up taking aspects from all three logos.
25th May - Meeting. The meeting was a real help for me with the project plan as well as finding out exactly where we all were. After the meeting, I was able to amend my project plan so that it was correct.
What didn't go so well?
28th Janurary - Tools & Techniques. I made quite a big mistake when trying to think ahead and the types of tools and techniques that we would be using. We ended up only really using two techniques & one tool, HTML, CSS & Notepad.
15th April - Project Plan. This part of the project really didn't go well for any of. Although Microsoft Project is a pretty simplistic program, we all ended up finding it quite hard to create a useable plan. We later had to amend our plan in our meeting on the 25th.
10th May - Final Layout Design. This aspect of the project, at first, went wrong and this was down to me. I took it upon myself to create the actual design of the website and coding it (taking the other two's aspects into consideration). This was not part of the assigment. We were suppose to do our own parts of the website in both design and coding. We ended up redoing the website later that month.
Tuesday, 17 May 2011
Blog Review
Today my blog is going to be reviewed. I believe that this means that this is another deadline met.. I think.
Tuesday, 10 May 2011
Final Layout Design
I have started work on the final layout design, it is mainly focused on my original design but I have taken aspects of both Pani & Jack's designs into it by adding a forum link, a login section to the index page, showing specials on the index page and using the space better.
More to follow.
More to follow.
Monday, 25 April 2011
Project Plan #2
Meeting
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mkEOWVMwZ23rAtv_zFFGClkBWUxq_pmpXH6sJ2etM1Y/edit?hl=en&authkey=COrt_d0H
Above is the Agenda for our meeting that we held a before the weekend.
After having this meeting, the deadline for doing so was met.
Above is the Agenda for our meeting that we held a before the weekend.
After having this meeting, the deadline for doing so was met.
Friday, 15 April 2011
Project Plan
I created a project plan for our project.
We completed this on-time and on deadline.
Update:
Scratch that, the deadline was changed for this hand-in as everybody seemed to have done it wrong. We now have an extra few days.
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