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Wednesday, 2 May 2012
Thursday, 22 March 2012
Thursday 22/03/2012 (bit of a catch up)
Since i last put up a new post a lot has been happening in our multimedia class.
We have completed an assignment based around designing a logo for a garden centre. In preparation for this we studied different design methods and techniques. We discussed good and bad points of different designs in class and prepared a design for an Italian restaurant called "Scungilli" as a practise assignment. I learned how to properly research and prepare drafts for a design presentation along with gaining more confidence in my design skills before working on an actual assignment.
Also since my last post we have started learning basic HTML code.
We started on a basic HTML involving three football clubs. We made basic pages for each of the clubs using the doccument type definition (DTD):
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">.
I learned how to link them using the <a href="(page location)"> tag.
On each of the pages I placed an image using the <img src="(image location)"width="(width)" height="(height)" alt="(this is the text displayed when the mouse hovers over the image or if the image fails to load"/> tag and a paragraph of text about the football club using the tag <p>.
I also learned how to embed videos through HTML using the tag
<iframe width="(width)" height="(height)" src="(web address)" frameborder="(border width)" allowfullscreen></iframe>.
I learned to use image maps to set up hotspots.
The tag to set an image up to use an image map is <img src="(image location)" width="(width)" height="(height)" usemap="#(map name)" border="(border width)">
Then to set up the image map I used the tag <map name="(map name)">
This is then followed by the tag to set up the dimensions of the hotspot, there are 3 shapes that can be used to outline a hot spot; these are: a rectangle, a circle (center and radius) and a polygon (6). Each of these shapes requires different data to work properly.
We have completed an assignment based around designing a logo for a garden centre. In preparation for this we studied different design methods and techniques. We discussed good and bad points of different designs in class and prepared a design for an Italian restaurant called "Scungilli" as a practise assignment. I learned how to properly research and prepare drafts for a design presentation along with gaining more confidence in my design skills before working on an actual assignment.
Also since my last post we have started learning basic HTML code.
We started on a basic HTML involving three football clubs. We made basic pages for each of the clubs using the doccument type definition (DTD):
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">.
I learned how to link them using the <a href="(page location)"> tag.
On each of the pages I placed an image using the <img src="(image location)"width="(width)" height="(height)" alt="(this is the text displayed when the mouse hovers over the image or if the image fails to load"/> tag and a paragraph of text about the football club using the tag <p>.
I also learned how to embed videos through HTML using the tag
<iframe width="(width)" height="(height)" src="(web address)" frameborder="(border width)" allowfullscreen></iframe>.
I learned to use image maps to set up hotspots.
The tag to set an image up to use an image map is <img src="(image location)" width="(width)" height="(height)" usemap="#(map name)" border="(border width)">
Then to set up the image map I used the tag <map name="(map name)">
This is then followed by the tag to set up the dimensions of the hotspot, there are 3 shapes that can be used to outline a hot spot; these are: a rectangle, a circle (center and radius) and a polygon (6). Each of these shapes requires different data to work properly.
- Rectangle: needs the top right hand co-ordinates of the hotspot and the bottom left co-ordinates.
- Circle: Needs the co-ordinates of the center point of the circle and the length of the radius.
- Polygon: Needs 6 sets of co-ordinates
I have only learned to use the rectangle tag so far:
<area shape="rect" coords="(top right co-ordinates),(top left co-ordinates)" href="(linked page location)" alt="(text displayed when the mouse hovers over the image or if the image fails to load)">
This can be repeated multiple times to create multiple hotspots on a single image.
the map must then be closed with the </map> tag.
We also began our collection of work which consisted of several projects, tasks and assignments we have done so far this year. which has since been completed.
Thursday, 19 January 2012
Thursday 12-01-2012 (retrospective post)
This week in multimedia we handed up our photo kiosk assignments and began work on two different tasks.
The first project was to create a short movie made up of the letters of our name with backing music.
The second was to create a design brief for an assignment. We were put into groups to complete this task. I teamed up with Seán Cooling and we came up with a design brief for cakes in the form of popular flash games.
The first project was to create a short movie made up of the letters of our name with backing music.
The second was to create a design brief for an assignment. We were put into groups to complete this task. I teamed up with Seán Cooling and we came up with a design brief for cakes in the form of popular flash games.
Thursday, 8 December 2011
Multimedia class 08/12/2011
Today in multimedia we did a mock assignment of an assignment we will be doing next week. The mock we did was preparation work which needed to be completed and handed up today.
We had to choose and evaluate an email application, I chose Hotmail.com.
We had to evaluate the email website under the Ten Usability Heuristics, which are:
1. Visibility of system status
2. Match between system and the real world
3. user control and freedom
4. Consistency and standards
5. Error prevention
6. Recognition rather than recall
7. Flexibility and efficiency of use
8. Aesthetic and minimalist design
9. Help users recognize, diagnose and recover from errors
10. Help and documentation
When I completed my mock assignment I saved it, printed it and handed it up.
We had to choose and evaluate an email application, I chose Hotmail.com.
We had to evaluate the email website under the Ten Usability Heuristics, which are:
1. Visibility of system status
2. Match between system and the real world
3. user control and freedom
4. Consistency and standards
5. Error prevention
6. Recognition rather than recall
7. Flexibility and efficiency of use
8. Aesthetic and minimalist design
9. Help users recognize, diagnose and recover from errors
10. Help and documentation
When I completed my mock assignment I saved it, printed it and handed it up.
Thursday, 1 December 2011
Multimedia class 01-12-2012
Today we learned about user centered design.
User centered design focuses on; usability goals, user characteristics, environment, tasks, workflow.
We took notes on the usability goals, user characteristics, environment, tasks and workflow individually going into more detail.
Briefly....
Usability goals: Effective to use, efficent to use, safe to use, have good utility, easy to learn, easy to remember how to use.
User characteristics: Gender, age, disabilities, left/right handed, height.
Environment: Where the product will be used, indoors outdoors, personal use, office use.
Tasks: Tasks they preform and tasks they would like to preform.
Workflow: The stages involved in order to complete the process
User centered design (UCD) should provide answers to:
They can be considered as any person or organisation who are directly or indirectly
with the product.
User centered design focuses on; usability goals, user characteristics, environment, tasks, workflow.
We took notes on the usability goals, user characteristics, environment, tasks and workflow individually going into more detail.
Briefly....
Usability goals: Effective to use, efficent to use, safe to use, have good utility, easy to learn, easy to remember how to use.
User characteristics: Gender, age, disabilities, left/right handed, height.
Environment: Where the product will be used, indoors outdoors, personal use, office use.
Tasks: Tasks they preform and tasks they would like to preform.
Workflow: The stages involved in order to complete the process
User centered design (UCD) should provide answers to:
- What is important to users
- The task users do,the order they do them and the frequency
- Users work environment
- Problems and constraints that affect the user
- Users expectations
- Output required
- How can the design facilitate users to achieve goal
They can be considered as any person or organisation who are directly or indirectly
with the product.
Thursday, 17 November 2011
Multimedia class 17/11//0211
Today in multimedia we selected a music video of our choosing and created a video for it using windows live movie maker.
The link to the video is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pyp1S6KSsc
The link to the video is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pyp1S6KSsc
Thursday, 10 November 2011
Multimedia class 10-11-2011
Today in class we completed a worksheet in which we evaluated the good and bad points of 10 diferent websites.
We then designed a newspaper advertisement for a hotel.
Our earlier work on evaluating the design of websites aided in our advertisement design by allowing us to see design faults.
We spent around 2-3 hours evaluating the websites and then the rest of the day working on our newspaper advertisement.
The work I did today will stand to me in future as it allowed me to practice different combinations of graphics and text.
We then designed a newspaper advertisement for a hotel.
Our earlier work on evaluating the design of websites aided in our advertisement design by allowing us to see design faults.
We spent around 2-3 hours evaluating the websites and then the rest of the day working on our newspaper advertisement.
The work I did today will stand to me in future as it allowed me to practice different combinations of graphics and text.
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