Two Down, One to Go
May 23So there’s only one assignment left for this year. Oh and two exams but that’s different. However the last assignment is a bit of a bugger, Javascript. Not the most invigorating subject but oh well it has to be done. I’m not really the biggest fan of JS, I admire what can be cone with it but I’m not a form believer in it. Considering JS can be turned off with the flick of a switch a whole site can be destroyed in seconds. Not exactly the nicest idea really. So Javascript can take a back seat when I design sites.
Anyway enough of the slight dislike towards Javascript. Summer is coming, it’s already getting hot and I’ve already been for a beach session. Things are looking good. All the work I’ve handed in has achieved a pretty high mark so I’m really happy with all of that, I’m just a bit worried about the upcoming exams as they aren’t my strong point. But who knows what could happen with them. I’l have to wait and see.
2 Weeks left and counting.
PS. My new PC is a beast 
From If to Else
Mar 15
So the latest assignment for PHP is involving making a Register and Login System for clients to view and control their settings. It’s not exactly on the same scale as creating an RPG, I think these two assignments were the wrong way around, or maybe the first one was to gauge the level of skills in the group, not sure. As I had already started work on a CMS it was quite easy to use some of the basic parts of it to show as the final piece.
I’ve just finished functionalizing the main administration script that controls pretty much everything that’s not classed as aesthetics. So that’s about 90% of the CMS completed. I’m going to add user list displays for anyone classed as Administrator, everyone else won’t even be given the link in the navigation (more dynamics). On the subject of the navigation, the actual links are built entirely through php, this means that each section of the site can have different nav bar links and some parts contain sub nav bars with links relating to the current content. So basically I’m forcing as much dynamic scripting as I possibly can into this project. I don’t think it will be as effective otherwise. More to come soon.
Time to get designing
Feb 05Now that Gaye has let us free into the realm of HTML and CSS design, lol. I can get on and make the three sites for her assignment. It’s better now we have free reign, whereas before we were supplied an HTML sheet which wasn’t the most stable looking piece of code. For what we needed to design it just wasn’t cutting it. There wasn’t even a proper Navigation area for the page, just list of links, which happened to be placed at the bottom inside another div…Fun.
I think i managed to create one of three using the HTML template given to us by Gaye, but the other two were impossible, in the sense that they would look god awful. But that’s just my own opinion. I guess it’s down to preference, I for one can’t create a site with pre-created html. Let’s see what I can come up with…
The three sites have to be based on the Logo Designs I used in Mike’s lesson:
- Rendezvous
- Source Share
- Experian