Harishankar+Krishnan+Unit+3

How have a student's IT needs changed? By : Harishankar Krishnan 7MKR INVESTIGATION Identify the Problem

We must create a website based on the unit question "How have a students IT needs changed."
Explain the Problem

My IT skills need to increase so that I know how exactly I must have my product created.
Research and Analysis

The ways that some technologies have evolved from the most bizarre things to what we use almost every day!
== I have also found out that in Expression 4, there is a button that you can click on so that whatever you put in the box, will display itself in the format that it will look like in the real website. This means that I can make sure my web layout is the way I want it to be in, not something else. == Another discovery I made is that good websites have many attributes. Here are some of those attributes. Design Brief

We must then make sure that it has a proper background and all hyperlinks are working properly.
Product Specification My product must: Test Plan Once I have created my designs, I will look at my design specification and then do a check-list. My check-list would be like:
 * ==Design a 5 page website. Before you start designing make sure you run it by the teacher first. ==
 * ==1 page must be about how students today are using different types of storage devices ==
 * ==1 page must be about online storage devices ==
 * ==1 page must be about how mouses have changed ==
 * ==1 page must be about how keyboards have and will change ==
 * ==1 page must be about how output devices have changed ==
 * ==1 page can be on whatever you want but it must related to the unit question ==
 * ==Show how the web page will look. change around the navigational bar, the location of your picture, add more pictures to each page, move the information around to show different designs. Remember two designs are better than one. Three designs are better two. Make sure you think about navigation and the content of each page in your design. For content a heading will be enough. Remember to look at the design criteria in order to get maximum marks. ==
 * ==Use research from the good and bad websites link so I know how my website should or shouldn't have.==
 * ==My design 1 must have the color light blue on it.==
 * ==My design 2 must be in a basic shape and design layout.==
 * ==My design 3 must have the letter 'Z' when on that page on the menu bar where that page link was supposed to be.==


 * ==Ask someone to look at my website. Once they have finished, ask them how many pages they saw on your website.==
 * ==Ask someone to look at my website and ask them if one page was about students using different storage devices.==
 * Ask someone to look at my website and ask them if one page was about online storage devices.
 * Ask someone to look at my website and ask them if one page was about how the mouse has changed and what it is now.
 * Ask someone to look at my website and ask them if one page was about keyboards changing and how they were one called typewriters.
 * Ask someone to look at my website and ask them if one page was about output devices changing and about how important they are to us right now.
 * ==I can ask my friend to go on my website, "open my good websites" word document, and see if my website has used this information gathered.==
 * ==Ask someone to look at my designs and see if my design 1 has the cross-bar layout because it makes navigation easy and good websites are easy to navigate on.==
 * ==Ask someone to look at my design 2 and see if the borders are in a curly shape because a good website must be attractive to other people's eye's so that they feel that the website is a good one or they have to go onto that very website.==
 * ==Ask someone to look at design 3 and see if it is far too complex of far too basic. The reason is that good websites are not too basic, but not too complicated otherwise the person looking at the website will most certainly get confused.==

DESIGN Pictures of my designs Design 1: Design 2:

Design 3

Analysis of my designs: The designs that I have done have matched t of the specifications. All my designs have 6 pages which include: A homepage, how students use different storage devices, how the mouse has changed, the keyboard changing and output devices changing. My design 1 has a lot of light blue in it. My design 2 is very simple but I think that it was not the best of my capabilities. My design 3, which I really like, has a “Z” on where the menu link was after it was clicked instead of it being a blank space. My design 2 has far too much information and there is not enough quality in the drawing. I think it is a far too basic and very uninteresting. My design 3 however has not followed this path and I think the one that I am going to choose is my design 3. Justification for chosen design The design that I choose to make is Design no. 3!!!

__ Design 1 __ : I really like my design 1 because it was very smart looking and it was easy to navigate which is one of the things to have a good website. I really like the color scheme and the amount of detail. The one downside is the skill that I need to make that is too small. My skill level is much lower than the skill level need to make this type or structure of design. I don’t have enough research in skills but if anything goes wrong with my chosen design, this is going to be the back-up plan!

__ Design2 __ : My design 2 is most certainly not going to be my chosen design. I didn’t put enough effort in the quality of this design. I now realize that the design 2 is simple, but far too basic and without the “WOW” in it. Next time I want to try better and make a better design 2 and at the same time do well in my other designs. One thing to focus on is not to procrastinate! I will try better on the other projects that are coming because this one was not good at all. I will try much better next time I have to do another project.

__ Design 3 __ : My design 3 is not the design that I am going to make because it is not too complex nor is it far too basic. I also really like the colorful scheme that does not interfere with the text. It is not difficult to make and it also has enough space for all of the information. I will take some of the information from design 1 to add to my design 3. I might change the colors a bit because some colors might be too strong. I think that I put in a lot of effort in my design 3 and I am hoping that everything will go well and my web design will be a very good one and stand out from every other one.

PLAN


 * ==Date== || ==Stage== || ==Work== || ==Resources== || ==Comments== || ==Procedure== ||
 * ==18/02/2013== || ==Plan&Create== || * ==Increase the amount of detail in plan==
 * ==Plan for the create== || ==Computer, Mouse, internet, keyboard, flash for storing any data.== || ==I have done this task quite quickly. I am glad about that.== || ==open internet, go on wiki,go to Hari unit 3 and press edit, add the detail for plan. Do what has just been done above except type what you are going to do for create.== ||
 * ==21/02/13== || ==Create== || ==Do the day 1 details and start to make your create.== || ==Computer, mouse, designs, flash, keyboard, internet and expression 4.== ||  || ==Open expression 4, look at your designs and then using the 2 sides option, make the layout for all your websites. When finished and if time is still left, do the details for day 2. Make hyperlinks for pages and on present page, make a big "Z".== ||
 * ==24/02/13== || ==Create== || ==Do the day 2 details and make sure you follow the instructions as it has been stated.== || ==Computer, mouse, keyboard, flash, internet, designs, expression 4== ||  || ==Open expression 4, type the name of the hyperlinks in the right spaces and then select the text that is going to be your hyperlink. Then click insert hyperlink and then make them hyperlinks to the pages that you want them to be hyperlinks for.== ||
 * ==25/02/13== || ==Create== || ==Do the day 3 and day 4 things today. If you don't finish it today, do it at break time.== || ==Computer, mouse, keyboard,flash, designs, internet, expression 4.== ||  || ==Open the saved file for expression 4 of your work. Then, looking at your designs and the steps for day 3 and day 4, onto the expression 4 and follow the instructions that have been stated.== ||
 * ==26/02/13== || ==Create== || ==Do the final things for the day 5 and after that, double check on all parts of the design. Make sure it s what you want it to be and correct!.== || ==Computer, mouse, keyboard, flash, designs, internet, expression 4.== ||  || ==Open your website on expression 4 and look at your designs. Do the details stated on day 5. After that, double check on every detail and make sure that it is what you want it to be.== ||

Look at it compared to your design and even ask your friends for any tips.
I got an extension by 1 day to finish my create stage. I have finished my website but I have not completed the other parts of the create stage and I have not copied my folder to Student Common. CREATE Final Product = = The address location of my project:

file:///E:/Shanku/Ende%20Varku/Unit%203%20ICT/Hari%20Website%204%20Final%207MKR%20CREATE/Hari%20Website%204%20Final%207MKR%20PAGE%201.html
Some screen Shots of my website:

Changes made to the original Design

I didn't really follow my design because some of the aspects like the contents bar length and width. I didn't have the skill to do all my design aspects. Net time I must choose a design that I ca actually make myself. Just because it looks good, doesn't mean it is the easiest to make. Changes made to the original Plan I never followed my plan. I had to do most of it at home. I was lucky I just managed to finish it just in time. I did every thing in an ICT lesson and the weekend.Next time I will make sure that my learning comes first, not my T.V. EVALUATE Results of tests = Lauren Schooly took my test ad she said yes to all my test plan aspects. This means that my project was a SUCCESS!!! = =Colleen Nyirenda took my test and she said yes to all my test plan aspects which means my project was a SUCCESS!!!=

Recommendations for improvement

I could have actually followed my plan. I could have asked Mr. Mutasa more questions so I could understand what I needed to do better. I could have tried to squeeze in some time to actually do my I.C.T work instead of just watching T.V at home.

Self-evaluation of your execution of the design cycle I would have planned first on everything that I would do (investigate, design, create and evaluate) I think that this method will make planning ore efficient. You would clearly know what to do when and you would know when your deadlines were up.