adam gouveia unit 4

Tuesday, 12 June 2012

P10 review

P10

I reviewed the project management process an identified successfully and unsuccessfully choices made and decisions taken

I meet all the project specification. In this project specification I spoke about my group’s responsibilities and mainly my own. I clearly state how the project meets the requirements of all the stakeholders e.g. client and target audience.

The target audience is for Business men (who travel a lot), 20-50 years old, Male, Middle class, £40,000+ annual income. It is common for this target audience to have a smart phone such as a blackberry meaning that the phone application will be handy.

When designing my homepage I made my website have a good colour scheme. The website also had to be updated all the time to the related theme depending on the month of the year and also when adding offers and discounts on our products. Flash animation was also designed to display the products. Contact details were to be easily spotted and the main page on the front fold which I also did.

One of my responsibilities in this project was to design the suitcases and add the GPS tracking device inside. I used paint to edit the pictures and create the product. This was gone very well by all three members of the group.

We meet all actual dates according to the project plan. Reasons in which some projects fail are because they miss the planning dates. The team does not review the project in time and then fails to stay within the project time. Some other ways in which project fails are:

· Poor communication

· No time for project management

· Lack of change management

· Poorly risk defined deliverables

· Over optimism

· Inadequate estimate

We also had three meetings which helped a lot in discussing the project and how we was going to tackle the challenge ahead.

Some of the issues we discussed were each member of the group was at and if needing any help should ask and we would have helped, designing the project, implementing and at the end test and present it to the clients. We did this very well even with some minor setbacks which happened because of college strikes and teachers being ill.

Monday, 11 June 2012

critical path

Tuesday, 29 May 2012

html

hmtl (hypertext markup language) is the most used markup language.

html displays web pages and can also have imformation that can be used to show on a web broswer

hmtl is Mark-up program, isn't a real programming language. This is because they don't have the control over the flow of the program. Such as making arrays and loops.

What mark-up language does is it gives instructions to control a computer file.

a HTML code so that the web page can carry out the functions.
html use tags or indicated by angle brackets, < and>. These brackets have the instructions of what will happen on the website. All tags have an open and close bracket. This enclose the content to be affected.

For example
(This is some of my html coding from the website i made)

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html lang= "en">
    <meta charset= "utf-8">
        <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
            <link rel="stylesheet" href="nav.css">
<head>
    <title>Homepage</title>
</head>

As you see all the tags have both open and close tags.

My web page had a header and body section. This was defined by its tags. The header is not seen by the person on the web page but on there so it has the information of the page. Such as with the meta charset and linking the to the other pages too.

Monday, 28 May 2012

user documentation

Monday, 14 May 2012

project monitoring

Last week in lesson we started designing are websites. I have already finished my website and now I’m just waiting for the rest of the group to finish their 5 pages each. Designed the checkout page, offers page, frequently asked questions page, terms and conditions and the homepage like everyone will designing.

The teacher also told the class that next week he will be checking the blogs to see if we have been blogging and passing us off in the criteria. I know I have because I frequently blogged and updated my blog.

Wednesday, 2 May 2012

cascading the style sheet

Cascading style sheet can be used to control the format of the website. They can change many things such as font,background colour and etc. They are in a separate file so that they can be used on the main web page. so this means that if changes need to be made, the css will only need to be changed and not the html, which would be much harder to do.

the CSS rule has two main parts:

a selector
and one or more declarations

we had to learn how to add a list of CSS properties- background and text colour:

colour
background-colour
bacground-image
background-repeat
background-attachment
background-position
font-family
font-size
font-weight
font-height
etc......

links can be styled in the same way as text so colour and font can be changed, but links also can be styled depnding on the state they are in, the four states are:

a:link
a:visiting
a:hover
a:active

for example

#navigation{


    float:left;
    width:900px;
    background:#333;




}

#navigation ul
{
    margin:0;
    padding:0;

monitoring the website

We have started making and implementing the website. With have until the 18 of May to complete it. Which we will present to the client and also give a presentation showing the client have we designed it and if we have met the user requirements.

I’m using the two column layout and also the three column layout the implement the website which I have to create five pages. And the other two member of my group will be doing the same.

Sunday, 29 April 2012

presentation deadline

Presentation

This shows that me and my group meet the deadline when we had to present the presentation. We will presented to the client and teacher. The link on the title shows the cross reference to the project plan. The deadline is on the 18th which is when we will present it. and this is clearly shown on the project plan.

Wednesday, 25 April 2012

forms

On the 24 Tuesday of April 2012 in unit 21 we learnt how to designed forms. Forms will be needed in our website as everyone will be designing one such as checkout or some over page to enter details of the customer. We designed the forms on komodo edit; we learnt how to have a password box, checkbox, tick box and a box to enter details.

On the 2012-04-25 we should have had a lesson on unit 4, however the teacher notified the class beforehand telling us that the lesson was cancelled.

Friday, 20 April 2012

changes to the Implementation in the project plan

Changes to the Implementation in the project plan had to be made as we had to have a lesson on the last column layout which we didn't have due to the teacher being ill and absent. This means I will have to move the implementation starting date forward. Which also mean I will have lesson time to create my website.

project plan