Week5 working process

During this week, at first,I kept on learning Php, but I was still confused all the time. I think I underestimated the lack of my foundation, I think I have to learn some basic knowledge first. However, it did not mean that I would give up Php. I just wannar choose what was appropriate for me from basal to advanced.

When I made this decision, I acknowledged I got a lazy and absurd idea. I wannar use DW(design view) to make a stucture of my website, because I have not learned any computer language, and DW is easier to control. I am so sorry, I know it went away from my learning needs. So I have corrected it. I will learn HTML and CSS first, and if there is enough time, I will try to learn Php and MySQL as much as I can. I have changed my schedule immediately in a right way, and I will not do it again. Therefor, I began to learn something fundamental about XHTML.

In addtion, I planed to do a draft of structure of my site, but I met a serious problem.
In the beginning, I want to creat a website about E-sports, which inculded three kinds of E-sport games, and I just want to put differents information of these three games such as news, introduction of the games and game download. However, I deny most of my original ideas, and I think if I just do like this, this website should not be meaningful. I believe I need to change the key of my website, so I think maybe I can focus on one of these E-sport games -- War3 which is most popular in Australia. Moreover, there are so many people living in Australia from different countries, and some of them, especially young people, and maybe I have some opportunities to make my website more attractive depending on this situation. Although there are many website about War3 all over the world in different languages, it is hard to find a web which is appropriate to all of the War3 players and fans who live in this largest international country. While I know it is impossible to build a website in an official or professional way, I can create a small, but meaningful website with these ideas. I have drawn a simple wireframe of the homepage in my website, and I will expand this structure in future study.

Week 4 working process

Actually, I should write down something two days before. Dam... network servicing!

During these three days, I started to learn PHP and MySQL. Although both are quite difficult, I think they are considerably advanced and professional for website design, and they can realise many things which other software cannot do.

At first, I read something general resouces about PHP such the histroy of PHP, the characteristics of PHP, running elements and installation & software test. All of these can make me more interesting in my later study. However, I got a problem. While Tim have told me the web which provides PHP and MySQL download and confirmed both can work in Windows XP system, I do not know how to let PHP run when I have installed it. I wanna ask Tim again in next class.

The second thing which I am doing now makes me crazy! I began to learn the grammar structure of PHP, including character string, constant and variable, operator, array, sentence and object & function. So horrible! I have less foundation of JAVA, C or .Net (I just learn a little basic skill in C++). Therefor, it is quite difficult for me to know the meaning of teaching material. I try to record what I have read and remember some simple content such as time show, some symbols, "define,do,bar" sentences and so on. I have learned a small part of the grammar structure of PHP. I think it is impossible to know everything in a short time. I will try to read all of them in next several days and do some deep research if I want to realize something which I need during the process of my website design.

Keep moving forward !

Impossible is nothing!

"By yourself!"

"You should never ever ever ever ... ever ever give up!"

"If you hit three out of ten, you are a star. If you can get even a little better than that, you are a superstar!"