All round, good week...

Hey,

This week has come to a close but the work is still ongoing, this being the situation for all my assignments. This week I have been trying to produce some ideas and designs for my group assignment (onthejob) it seems to have gone ok, we have managed to communicate in a professional manner and managed to come up with ideas and designs between us, but yet to come up with a finished design. I feel that this assignment will be a bit of a rush to the finish has it seems that 5 weeks isn’t enough considering what has to be done.

Onthejob is an assignment that I am enjoying very much, I enjoy coming up with the designs and not having the weight of the whole assignment on my shoulders. Working with the group is another success; they both seemed relaxed and talented at what they do. I hope this assignment can be my first pass of the semester as I've not had too much luck in terms of grades as of yet but hopefully with the likes of ‘the Biz’ and ‘Culture Vulture’ out of the way very soon I can finally relax and concentrate on my tasks for the other assignments.

Today I had my one to one and well after I had gone away from this I was reassured on what had to be done and when. I was also refreshed on what actually had to be done has I wasn’t too sure about what needed to be done. I finally know what I have to do in order to get my referred assignments out of the way and this has made me feel a lot better about the upcoming weeks. I have inputted my assignments into my weekly planning sheets and tried to focus more on my referred work more but at the same time try to level this out with the other assignments.

I now know what I have to be getting on with this week, these past few days have helped me get back on my feet as I was worried I was walking down the path to last year and we don’t want that… The weekly is based on my group assignment with the likes of my referred work making an appearance but after these are out of the way, all I can say is ‘‘WEEHHEEYYY’’

Checklist for the week:

I’ME

Web plan completion
More design ideas
Digital thoughts / ideas

CiSSy

Web plan completion
More design ideas
CSS insight

The Biz

Business plan arrangement
Referencing on plan

Onthejob One

Few design ideas
Digital prototypes (x4)

Other

Learning schedule sheet
Tutorial tryouts


So, this week is going to be busy one, but an enjoyable one. I will hopefully have a few assignments out of the way, be on schedule with others and enjoy the week without the likes of thinking of failure and disappointment. This week I will be sticking the my weekly plan by the fullest and try not to get distracted by things like work, girlfriend or the ice cream van…

Within next week you, my fellow bloggers, will hopefully see an improvement within my work and I will try to demonstrate this progress through my blog and submitted work...

Feedback welcome!!!

David

CSS aaarrrggghhh....

This week as finally come to an end, this week seems to have kept on dragging and has been very tiring. This week I have been rushing about trying to complete my work within the limit that was asked. I had two web plans needed completing ready for hand in today and I have managed to complete one but the other is just about there. The web plans for me are defiantly the most difficult areas of any assignment. I find that the written areas are what are letting me down in terms of grades.

This week I have been put into a team for the next assignment and well, I feel this assignment will be a success and I feel we will beat the other team in terms of final choice. The team I am with makes it I feel easier for as I have been placed with Mark who is and excellent designer and Big Dave who is a very good producer. I hope with my input and ideas will help with the team’s success. The only thing that I'm worried about with this assignment is I think letting my other team members down but hopefully with my time planned well and set my goals I know it will be a success for the team of ‘Dave’s’, consisting of myself Dave Watson, Big Dave Sellers and Dave (Mark) Feathers.

Next week is going to be the real tester for me, I have lots of work to be done and ready for feedback and hopefully if this week goes well and I stick to my time plan I can reach my goals and complete the work that needs doing. I have started to get dug into my assignment I’ME more than ever now, I seem to be working on this assignment more than others, I’m trying to produce more designs and I keep changing my content of web plan but slowly its coming on. For me, as soon as I get my CiSSy assignment out of the way the beta I think, I hate having to go through CSS and having to keep learning and talking about it, I don’t get the life of CSS at all. I understand the concepts and a few of the basics but the rest is about as difficult to understand as the three wheeled car.

Next week I will have my web plans hopefully, fully complete and have some more screen designs in sketchbook and in digital format for assignments I’ME and CiSSy. I will have some designs and sketches ready for Monday morning ready for the meeting with my team and discuss what each of us has produced and come up with some favourites between us.

My next entry will hopefully be much better in terms of what I have done over this next week; I shall by then have met all my goals from my time planning sheets and this will hopefully be shown within my work and will be presented within the blog.

Thanks for reading!!!

Feedback will be blessed upon…

David

Entering The World Of CSS

This week I have just handed in my assignment for ‘Culture Vulture’ and I have to say that it went pretty well throughout the whole of the assignment. The research and design parts of the assignment went very quickly for me and well if I'm honest I just wanted the written part out of the way so I could get stuck into the design part. This may have affected my first task but after going over and through the task I feel I have managed to find my mistakes and been able to recover these by replacing these in the correct way.

The designing of the assignment I feel was very exciting, being able to design for a product that could be anything. This enabled us to produce any kind of design as there really wasn’t any right or wrong answers. After handing in my assignment I dint feel the relief that I usually get from handing in my other assignments, I think this is due to me putting in more effort in this assignment therefore giving me the relaxation that I have covered everything that’s been required.

Next week I will have hopefully completed my web plans for my assignments ‘I’ME and CiSSy’. It will probably be a struggle for me due to me now liking the written parts of assignments and just wanting to rush them so they are out of the way.

Today I did some CSS work and well its getting more and more clearer as each session goes, I feel that I am not as confident with CSS as I should be but that may be the case of me not really wanting to. I am going to try and research on CSS and try some of my own and hopefully enable me to be up with the bright sparks in my class…

Thanks for taking the time to read…

Please leave feedback if you so wish…

Thanks
David

Absence is a 'sin'

Hey…
This week I didn’t manage to make it into college for either days, but have still managed to keep my work on track. Last year when I had the odd absence I seemed to have slipped behind and after each day off and just kept slipping and well I've tried not to make this mistake again with the second year. This week I’ve managed to come up with a number of designs for the assignment ‘Culture Vulture’ and well they are coming along nicely. I may have chosen my design but still unsure, require the feedback of family before decision is made.

This week I was given the product in which I have to implement my design, turns out to be an ‘Adidas trainer’… Yey…

The product we are designing for is brilliant, not only do I work for a sporting company I know have the chance to come up with my own design. The designs that I have come up with, I feel fit perfect with the product. They are basic, colourful and attractive, all what you need for a successful trainer.

I tried to get involved in my ‘CiSSy’ assignment but still haven’t managed to get the buzz that I get from the other assignments, ‘CiSSy’ has yet to take my notice but will be trying to get my head around the assignment this week, hopefully…

I’ME is coming along in its own way; I’ve made decisions on what I want but not on how I'm going to do this. Next for me is the process of actually getting down with the ideas and trying to produce some sort of new design that could be used for my portfolio website. The ideas I came up with seem to be a bit dated and some seem to be a bit flashy, I need to come up with something in between in order for me to produce a website that I actually understand.

Thanks for taking the time to read, Cya next week…

Feedback always welcomes!!!

Thanks
David