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By : Eamonn Fitzgerald  INVESTIGATION

Identify the Problem  the problem is that over the years students it needs have changed and they now require new devices and levels of expertise.

Explain the Problem the problem is that nowadays people have so many documents that are spread across so many storage devices and it is hard to keep track of and know what is stored on what devices. if just there was one storage device that could hold all of a persons files! students it needs have changed because of new innovations in technology and the students have had to develop with it.

Research and Analysis a well designed website is made up of a good and well spaced out design and is colourfull but also contains good information that is all true and recent. a good website is updated frequently and has pictures. it should contain a balanced amount of pictures and writing unless it is something like a photography website that is supposed to have many good pictures and less information or if it is a data website that has much more information and only the occasional picture. the website should not take long to load and should not be to hard to navigate and should be easily controllable by the creator. it should also be safe and not give your computer a virus or a problem of any kind. make sure that it is also colourful but not entirely coulored as it will then be slightly overdone.



Design Brief i will be designing a website about how students it needs have changed. Product Specification
 * 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
 * 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.
 * i will make sure it is colourful and the heading is big.

Test Plan
 * i will count the pages to make sure it is five.
 * i will make sure that i write one page about students changing IT needs and have someone read through it.
 * i will make a size 20 heading in colour.
 * i will add links to everything and make the user feel like it is interactive.

DESIGN  Pictures of my designs

Analysis of my designs Design 1.My first design I think I did quite well on. I think that it is well structured and well made. I liked the way that I structured my pictures on the design. It was a good effort but not my best design by far. It took quite a while to make and a long time to draw. It is very detailed and I think it is a good design. I like the way that I structured the information on this design and my various components each had their own place on the design paper and I still had free space left over. My second design was not so good a design. It was badly structured with information taking up most of the space. It does not really fit the design criteria either. It leaves almost no room for the pictures and has little or no free space. It has six pages but the pages are rather squashed and hard to see the structure. It is not very colorful and the background and text colours do not contrast with each other. Design three: My third design was definitely my best one. It was well structured although in some parts quite cramped. It is well explained and quite well laid out. I liked the way that the pictures were structured leaving much room for a rich and illustrated text. I also labeled text colour and backgrounds. This made it very colorful and of better quality. I also put many pictures in this one. I made annotations of what each picture would be about. This was overall my best design. Justification for chosen design I have chosen design three because as I said above it is the best of all my designs and is the most clear. It is well structured with each particular aspect fitting into a different space. I liked the way that the different components were each structured and I found that this was my best design.

PLAN Begin scouting info sites. || I will find the color that best suits my website and apply that color to the back ground. I will then choose a text color. I will also begin scouting out good information websites. || Microsoft expression web 4 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Deadline || Objective || information || Resources || Homework || Done || Comments ||
 * 2/26/13 || Site background finished and colored.
 * 2/29/13 || Obtain pictures and information. || I will use the sites that I found in the step before to then obtain pictures and information specificated in my design. || Internet, Google ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 2/31/13 || Finish info and pictures || I will finish putting my pictures on my website. I will then finish typing my information onto my site. On this step I will do some basic editing. || Microsoft expression web 4 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 3/2/13 || Edit thoroughly || On this step I will finish my editing thoroughly and then ask an adult to see if they think that my website was okay with them. I will then do a spell check on my website. || Microsoft expression web 4 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 3/3/13 || Upload all || I will upload all of the different parts of the website to the BMIS homepage and then save my work. || Internet ||  ||   ||   ||
 * 3/4/13 || Finish create || I will then finish the rest of the questions for the create stage and therefore be finished. || Internet ||  ||   ||   ||

CREATE  Final Product

Changes made to the original Design  I changed a few things from my origionally chosen design. here are a few of the changes made to my origional design. one change was that i cut out many of the origional pictures and just have few big ones. I did this because it would have been hard to do my page without overdoing it with all those pictures.

Changes made to the original Plan  i had to make several changes to the origional plan because with all of the holidays i did not get much work done. i think that next time i could do better at managing my time to get things done before the do date. EVALUATE  Results of tests I followed all of my tests with only a few exceptions. I tested everything and every result was positive. My test went well and my results were as I thought that they would be. Recommendations for improvement I could improve by maybe adding a bit more colour and more detail in my writing. I could also have added a few more links to my site so that the reader could follow them and find out more information from proffesionals on the topic. I think that I followed most of what I said that I would do to the best of my ability and the final results I was satisfied with although there is still room for improvement.
 * TEST 1 || TEST 2 || TEST 3 || TEST 4 ||
 * first test was successful || first test was successful || first test was successful || first test was successful ||
 * second test was successful || second test was successful || second test was successful || second test was successful ||
 * third test was successful || third test was successful || third test was successful || third test was successful ||
 * fourth test was successful || fourth test was successful || fourth test was successful || fourth test was successful ||

Self-evaluation of your execution of the design cycle I think that I followed the design cycle well but not necessarily seamlessly. I did the investigate well and to the best of my ability. And design I did well and followed the design criteria to the best of my ability. Plan I made a detailed plan that had the dates for each assignment and I ran off the plan slightly when we missed several days of ICT and therefore missed valuable time for completing our work.