Don't Ever do Anyone a Favour if You Liked Your Car the Length it was when you Bought it.

Evening all,

This is my first blog entry for quite sometime and because of this it should be a long rambling entry.

Not going to happen, I’m going to update what I have missed and edit this to make it look like I’ve never been away.

Assignments

Due to car crash (not my fault) and computer pyrotechnics, haven’t been able to do that much work over the last month, this has left me behind on all my assignments. Also the above mentioned computer light show left everything other that a CD drive that I’ve had since 2001 in a state of ruin. This obviously includes my hard drive and the contents of it.

iMe: I need to update my blog entries. I have redesigned my portfolio site as I wasn’t happy with the last effort. This needs to be implemented as soon as possible.

My six (now three) month learning plan needs to be written up and I need to become proficient in both PHP and MySQL as quickly as possible. I might drop the MySQL part of this to save time.

CiSSy: The essays are finished. This means I have 3 weeks to make the 3 WebPages needed fro this assignment. I also have to photocopy any evidence of research fro submission.

Kiss: I will be handing this in on Monday, essays need typing up and the e-card needs producing again. Hopefully this will not be as time consuming as it was last time.

Team Project: I’m awaiting further instruction from the gaffer as to what needs doing.

Thank you for reading, Dale.

New Year

Hi all,

We get a new assignment for the new and it looks very interesting. The assignment is called ‘Kiss’ and the brief is to design an interactive e-card for Valentines day.

This will give me an opportunity to use Flash as an authoring tool again. This will be the first time since the Channel 8 indents that I have been able to use it. My Flash authoring is pretty weak at the moment, but hopefully this assignment will fill the gaps in my knowledge of Flash.

I have started to compile the research for the assignment, but the way it needs to be presented is not stipulated. Having looked at the brief I think the most appropriate way to present the information would be in essay form, with test plans for each of the learning outcomes.

The design of the card is pretty open ended, as is the way it is interactive. Having looked at a lot of e-card through my research, most of them have little or no interactivity. Most are just simple animations that look poor. I haven’t really found one that stands out and that will be the aim for my design.


Thanks for reading.