Making the site 'live'...
We didn't have a lesson today, as such, but I did find out some interesting things, thanks largely to the help of Adam Procter...and a fortuitous discovery of a document that my colleague picked up in a class that I was not able to attend...this was the first time I had seen this document...this is slightly disconcerting, as the information on the sheet about the criteria of the assignment is not available (as far as I can see) on BREO, or on the MADWiki site...am I wrong?! Is the assignment information available? If so, please let me know...
I found out that the blog is worth 50% of our grade! I don't think that the blog should be given so much weight...I have been consistent with my blogging, but I still think that the website production is much more important...I can understand that there is the need for a 'production log', hence the blogs, but I still think that 50% is a very high percentage...
Anyway, I was advised that we should be producing some imitation letters to show that we are aware of the need to clear copywritten material, after the discovery of the before-unseen criteria, and Adam also explained how we could make our sites 'live' online, via the tutorial on the 'MAD Support' page...
I discussed some of the things I had been working on in HTML with Adam, and he re-assured me that I wasn't wasting my time (always a good thing!!), and he told me that one of the major things to remember in 'web development' was that it's a good idea to keep your 'styles' (CSS), and your 'content' (HTML) seperate, so that your site is easily maintainable...apparently 'J-Edit' is a useful cross-platform HTML program that works on PC and Mac, so I'll be looking that up...
Again, 'W3 Schools' came up in discussion of useful sites for 'web development'...there are some really useful definitions of HTML functions here...apparently we've got some new books on CSS in the library too, so that's my next port of call!
My group and I meet tomorrow to plan out our 'mini-presentation' for next week...think we should be ok...
Loads of work to do, so gotta run...
Later, people...
I found out that the blog is worth 50% of our grade! I don't think that the blog should be given so much weight...I have been consistent with my blogging, but I still think that the website production is much more important...I can understand that there is the need for a 'production log', hence the blogs, but I still think that 50% is a very high percentage...
Anyway, I was advised that we should be producing some imitation letters to show that we are aware of the need to clear copywritten material, after the discovery of the before-unseen criteria, and Adam also explained how we could make our sites 'live' online, via the tutorial on the 'MAD Support' page...
I discussed some of the things I had been working on in HTML with Adam, and he re-assured me that I wasn't wasting my time (always a good thing!!), and he told me that one of the major things to remember in 'web development' was that it's a good idea to keep your 'styles' (CSS), and your 'content' (HTML) seperate, so that your site is easily maintainable...apparently 'J-Edit' is a useful cross-platform HTML program that works on PC and Mac, so I'll be looking that up...
Again, 'W3 Schools' came up in discussion of useful sites for 'web development'...there are some really useful definitions of HTML functions here...apparently we've got some new books on CSS in the library too, so that's my next port of call!
My group and I meet tomorrow to plan out our 'mini-presentation' for next week...think we should be ok...
Loads of work to do, so gotta run...
Later, people...
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