Week9 Process

As time goes on, haft of this semester has passed, there are more and more assignments which I have to do from four different courses. It is considerably hard, especially for me -- a fresh student. I hope I can belance all of these course and got a approving result, I will try my best. Best wish to myself, lol. In this week, the main task is to finish the "System plan".

The process of designing my web site, during this week, is not fast, because I paid more attention to the "System Plan", and I got a problem in relation to the aspect of "Download". I know if I want to bulid a complete download system, I have to creat it depending on PHP and MySQL, and I know if I just bulid it with HTML(XHTML), something unbalanced would happen. Perhaps I have not enough time to lean how to use PHP and MySQL to realize a download system, but I think it is necessary to build a simple download system in my web. Therefore, I decided to add only five fields in my dowload page depending on HTML(XHTML), such as "

Players :: Hopeez vs TheAxeEffect-

Races :: Human vs Night Elf

Map :: TwistedMeadows

Length :: 0:38:42

download

"
In addtion, if I have more time in this term, I will learn how to do it with PHP and MySQL or I will learn it in my future study.

Although I have learnt most of skills related to HTML(XHTML) and CSS, when I built my own web site, I always have to reread the language again and again. I think it might be a process which would make me more and more familiar about knowledge.

Week8 Process

In terms of this week, I needed to prepare "System plan" related to my web design. I have not done it before, even seen it before...Therefore, I had to read some materials about it, and speed up my process of designing my web site.

The work process of this week were composed by three steps. First is to learn what system plan is, and how to make it. Second is to keep on learning CSS. Third is to speed up the porcess of designing my web site.

During this week, in terms of CSS, I have learnt about other attributes except which I had leant in last week, including frame, list, extension, static filtration, dramatic filtration, and so on. In addition, I have taken some exercises from UTS online, in which lecturer had put and other W3C tutorial in relation to CSS. Although it is quite inconvenient to write the code which could be realized by other technology tools, I try to persist in writing them by myself. I am absolutely agree with the scholars named Håkon Wium Lie and Bert Bos -- "There are two ways to create CSSs. You can either use a normal text editor and write the style sheets "by hand," or you can use a dedicated tool - for example a Web page design application - which supports CSS. The dedicated tools allow you to create style sheets without learning the syntax of the CSS language. However, in many cases the designer will want to tweak the style sheet by hand afterwards, so we recommend that you learn to write and edit CSSs by hand." Thus, I believe that it is good for my study to persist in writhing the code by myself. Moreover, I learn how to use div, it is fantastic that build a web through combining DIVwith what I have learn in XHTML and CSS before.

The process of building my web site in this week is well-off, because I did not add something complex in it, and I would make it more colourful later, when I got more new ideas ,was more familiar to these technology and learnt more skills.

Teaching materials (including vedio links):
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum83/200.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPtzXH5h-HYhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAmTmO0ZWSY&feature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MifXZeMD24E&feature=related

PS: work process in this week

Week7 Process

During this week , I started to do two new things. First is to begin to realize my web site in computer. Second is to begin to learn CSS. Although I was not familiar enough to predominate HTML(XHTML) thechnology, I need to start to build my web site with the development of my knowledge. Because I had done the draft of micro and macro analysis of the technology which I will learn and use, I got a general idae about the function of CSS technology which I will learn from this week. Therefore, at first, I just use HTML to do a structure of my home page. While the plan of my web site included many elements, I am a beginner, and I have to work from easy to hard and from simple to complex. Thus, in my first draft of my home page, I built a logo picture, four navigation, copyright and define four frames for register and sign in system, up to date discussion, external links and content of news. I wannar make them more beautiful, after I started to learn CSS technology.

At the beginning of learning CSS, I got a main idea of how CSS work, and I think the map below would indicate it completely.

I believe that this picture deadly indicate why we need to choose CSS in web design and interact CSS with HTML(XHTML), and it demonstrates that how convenient CSS technology is. I thinke I need to say "thank you" to the "Micor and Macor analysis" which let me make a sence about the technology which I want to learn. I think if I did not do it before I learn CSS, maybe I would build more content of my web site than what I have done now with HTML(XHTML) after I learnt it. If I did like this, I would waste much more time to do something which can be realized much more easy by CSS than HTML(XHTML).

During the process of learning CSS, I found, to some extent, CSS is a little more easy to learn than HTML(XHTML), maybe because I have some fundation of HTML(XHTML). On the other hand, I think the skills in CSS are less than HTML(XHTML), and there are two trouble things in CSS, First is that so many vocabularies which I have to remember in relation to different definition with different styles. Second is that it has a simple and clear way to take control over the whole website. By putting the codes in front of each lines and paragraphs, the fonts and the colors are perfectly marched for what I wanted. The only problem here is to understand and notice the inline code which would overwrite the CSS all the time, so in order to ensure the CSS is working all the way around that I need to double check it. In this week I learn about the statement of CSS, how to create the CSS style table and the fundamental format in CSS, the units in CSS and the attributes of genre and background. And then, I have built the structure of the page of WCG 2008 and GGplatform in my web site.

Teaching materials:

Hugh, C., 2004 "The web wizard's guide to XHTML", Boston:addison Wesley

http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/learning

http://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/011/firstcss

http://www.w3.org/Style/LieBos2e/enter/

http://www.w3schools.com/Css/default.asp

Technology Micro and Macro Analysis

http://students.mim.iml.uts.edu.au/users/10758326/m&m.html

Week6 Process

I spent several days on researching and doing my "Micro and Macro analysis" at the beginning of this week. It is a little difficult to distinguish the difference between Micro and Macro. I hope I can get some help through the group reflection, and I will try my best to improve it.

During the last days in this week. I kept on learning the knowledge of HTML(XHTML). I think there is little trouble to understand, and HTML is the fundation of all of technologies about in relation to web design. I find this technology always play a pivotal role as the "infrastructure" in the whole web. Therefor, I have to expertly hold this techology, especially the language in order to have a good interaction with other technologies in web design such as CSS PHP in my future study. I have learned most of the basic languages in HTML through some teaching materials, including the usage of tag, the edition of text-version, the design of text-version, the establishment of forms, the usage of images, the establishment of hyperlink and the establishment of window frame. ( I try to classified what I have read from these aspects by myself, and it facilitated me to remember. )

I think that it is easy to understand and remember these knowledge, but it is difficult to master them in a short time. So I tried to improve my skills of HTML in two different ways. First, I did some exercises from the teaching materials and use the skill in my own web design. Second, we should browse many websites every day, so when I browsed a new web which I have not seen before, I would try to think about how to realize the structure of this web with the technology of HTML. Although only can I do it in some simple web at the beginning, I think the only way in which we have to do for success is step by step, and I believe I would get a good fundation of HTML study through these two ways. In addition, although last week I negatived the technology of "DW" in my web design, I think maybe I can utilize it to offer some help me for my HTML study in a correct way. If I did not know how to use HTML to realize some parts of a web which I have seen, I could use "DW" to realize it first and then to analyse how to do it depending on the "code design" in "DW".

Teaching materials: http://www.ipl.org/div/kidsweb/
http://www.w3schools.com/Html/default.asp
http://www.html.net/tutorials/html/
and so on.....

Learning Proposal

http://students.mim.iml.uts.edu.au/users/10758326/Learning%20Proposal.htm