Today was successful. I finished the first research handout. I also finished the second question of the research task. I have to get the checklist worksheet off the teacher next lesson and that is the only part of the research task that i have left. I did a little more work on my website but as the internet was down for a lot of the lesson i never got very far.
Tuesday 21st August.
Today i re-did the background for the webpage. I encountered quite a few problems and errors with making the background symmetrical. I used the microsoft paint program to make my background. I also realised that my background was difficult to match font colours with. In one part, the image is very light and in other parts is very dark. This means that both bright and dark coloured fonts will not show up well in at least one part of the image. Therefore i highlighted part of the word(s) that fall on the light part and coloured them black. For the rest of the writing i chose a bright red colour. It looks a bit tacky, so i may have to modify it soon.
Below is a picture of my background. As the picture is multiplied when used as a background in frontpage, i modified it to join together with itself.
Thursday 23rd August
Today i decided the background shown at the left would not be suitable for my website and so chose a simple/plain black background. Instead i used the image as the side taskbar background to add a bit of life to the page though i'm unsure whether it looks presentable. Other than that i inserted my logo into the website, and got started on page two of the website. Now that i understand how to do what i wanted to do it won't take much time to complete this task.
Tuesday 28th August
Today i made the finishing touches on my website. I made the edges of the borders look neater and more classy. Im not particularly excited about the way my site has turned out as i had planned it to look much more attention grabbing etc. But my plans did not succeed and i had to change it around quite a bit, discarding almost all elements of the plan i made for the website. Still, i think it looks pretty reasonable, if a bit plain.
Thursday 30th August
Today i continued with little parts of the website that needed fixing. Just little presentation errors or alignment issues. I'm not particularly enthralled when i see my design, nor will anyone else be, but after discarding another layout that i made, it will have to do as i'm running out of time, not to mention patience. Today is the recomended last day to work on this task, and i think i have done quite well. It wont be finished by the end of the lesson, but it will be close, which means i can happily start the next task and when submission comes around i will only have one or two issues to fix up with my website.
Monday 3rd September
Today we made the final touches to our assignments. Mine is as good as finished though i realised only this lesson that we needed to include a photography 'link' within the site to show some of our work throughout this year. This will take me a while longer now that i have to do this.
REVIEW
Task 4 was dissapointing for me because i had finally found inspiration and was determined on what i was going to do. The other tasks, while i did them, i wasn't really creative with them but this one i had a few ideas. None of them worked out well and in the end it turned out plain and boring in my opinion. At first, i designed my own layout. It looked quite ordinary and scrappy as lines did not match up properly. After extensive editing of the layout it worked as i wanted it to, but then came the problem of the colour and pattern of it. It contained a dark solid colour, then in various squares it was white and patterned. This meant that If i chose light font to write on the page, if it overlapped the white patterns it couldn't be seen, but if i chose dark, it couldn't be seen over the dark background. Therefore, i decided to change it to a solid colour all round. It was different tones of blue. And the background was pitch black, with white writing. Then came the problem of the text boxes all not aligning properly and the site looked shabby. I never truly overcame that problem because i ran out of time. But i got it to look halfway decent. All in all in my opinion it was acceptable, but i wanted it to be so much more. Hopefully in the succeeding task 5, i can focus all my inspiration into that.
