Week12 & Week13 Process

During these two weeks, I created a sign in/register function and another simple discussion board, and build a relationship between them with the others' help and templets from some tutorial web site. Originally, I just planned to build a discussion, but I believe that the sign in/register function is one of the most basic elements in a web site. Although today I can not finish all of things independently without learning PHP and MySQL step by step, it is considerably useful for my future study and web design ,when I have got a general idea, knew the whole process and realized it for the first time in my porject. At a high level still, I could get my own standard templet about these function in this project, and then keep on developing it in my future web design. In addition, I try to correct some irregular codes in my project.

This is a good tutorial web site for PHP and MySQL learner.
http://php.about.com/od/finishedphp1/ss/

Week11 Process

Druing the communication with other classmates and reading the materials from UTSonline, I found this simple, but useful language of Javascript about image design was considerably appropriate for my "photo gallery" in page of WCG 2008.
"
function swapImage(fileName,AltText) {
document.getElementById('mainImage').src = 'images/' + fileName;
document.getElementById('mainImage').alt = AltText;
document.getElementById('mainImage').title = AltText;
} "
At the beginning of this week, I finish my "photo gallery" with this Javascript technology. In my original plan, I would build a news system with PHP technology in my web site, but I think I could do it well just utilizing HTML(XHTML), because there were not something complex which need to be admined. In addtion, I believe the function of register and discussion board was more basic and important than it in a web site. Therefore, when I finished my "photo gallery", I began to find some templets about simple example of discussion board，especailly the one published by lectures.

Most of the templets of discussion board have some complex function, but I just want to realize the most basic structure of discussion board, and I did some choose and then created one in my web site. In order to know how to read the process in PHP, I have to keep on learning the undamental knowledge of PHP. It is quite hard to understand, but it was exciting when I know how to realize any simple function with PHP. In addition, in this week, I also try to get some materials about the function of registering system realized by PHP, and prepared what I would do next week.

Week10 Process

Thanks for the reflection from my group members about the "System Plan", and the work process of this week almost surround the reflection. There were two main things which I need to do at first in order to improve my "System Plan". One thing is to search and creat something about "users persona and scenarios", another is to solve some issues of site map in my web site.

Although as to the DMT subject, we need to learn some advanced technology and skills such as XHTML, CSS, PHP, the final aim is how to utilize these technology and skills to build a web site. In terms of creating a web site, not only do we need to command these knowledge, but also need to learn how to design it or make strategy for it. Maybe we did not need a deep level related to them so far, but we have to think about them. All of the requests in the "System Plan" demonstrated this point of view. Therefore, I will be serious to do what I have not do in my System Plan.

During this week, I spent some time on doing the research about users persona and scenarios. In addition, I compared with some game web sites in order to do some change and get a integrative and logic makeup related some specific content in my web site such as the page of "WCG 2008", becaus WCG2008 do not hold before the deadline of submitting our final project, I adjused some content in that page. Moveover, my plan in this week was to try to learn PHP. Thus, I started to learn it again. Although I knew that it might be impossible to realize the function of PHP about register and discussion board with junior level knowledge independently, it is necessary to learn PHP from now on and make a good fundation for understanding some PHP templets and for my future study.

Thanks for lecture in DMT, I found these two links are considerably useful for PHP beginners.

http://www.tizag.com/phpT/index.php

http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_intro.asp

System Plan

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