Final Project Plan (wk6 – wk8)
The last couple of weeks were spent editing, adding to and completing the final project plan for this major assignment and initiation of work on the actual portfolio.
I submitted the plan on 2nd of september, with inclusions based on what the tutors and students said in the week before. I was pretty reluctant to do the report when it was first brought to my attention, it seemed a bit excessive and useless; however, as with most negative thoughts about an assignment, upon finishing the plan I had a better idea of exactly what I wanted to do and how I would go about doing so. A lot of the report was useless, it was just neatly written physical version of what I already had in my mind and did not nescessarily help me start the assignment. Having said that certain sections allowed me organise what I was thinking, and working out the tasks I had to achieve to reach the final assignment and the timeline I created were really helpful and made the start of the journey less difficult and daunting.
So far I have created the basis of my design, the colour scheme and general layout and style. I am also using my timeline, ticking things off and if work needs to be delayed, editing the timeline. In addition to the timeline (having realised the difficulty of constantly editing tasks and times as nothing ever seems to go as planned), I have transferred that information onto a digital project plan/gantt chart to more easily adjust the ever changing schedule.
The design of the site is similar to the power point slides that I created for the presentation a couple of weeks ago (grey, red, blue) and I am going for a dark easy on the eyes look (as opposed to black writing on bright white BG). Also like I have discussed in the report and presentation I am going for a nice clean, simple layout. I am thinking of having the links in the banner to the right, which is a little different but very readable and easy to use. I am also contemplating a design that does not use scroll bars, all the information will be displayed in there respective areas in an 800×600 box.
Anyway that is pretty much were I am at the moment, in the following weeks I hope to have the design finalised and ready for input into site format.
