Week 4
This week I was back in college.

Wednesday

Wednesday morning was about learning how to reference and plagiarism. On previous courses I haven’t had to do this so I’m learning pretty much from scratch. I am understanding it and will have to practice in my first assignment.

The afternoon was spent learning how to use Page Maker. I found it easy to follow and learnt quite a lot, although, as I understand it, we have only just touched the surface of what Page Maker is capable of.

When re-designing the page of ‘Nikki Iles’, I tried to use a large column on the left hand side, along with 3 smaller ones. I then realised it was extremely difficult to proportion this properly and it took me an age to figure out! The main thing I learnt was not to do that again!
I left college feeling ready to get stuck in to my self study and catch up. That’s just what I did. I worked on my competitive analysis, analysing 3 websites that related to my subject. This took me 3 hours. By this time it was 9.30pm and I was tired. To finish off my self study, I started to sketch my screen designs. This took me till 11.00pm, and then I called it a day!

Thursday

Helen Rivron came in to reciprocate Steve’s lecture on Wednesday, and to go further into the definition of plagiarism. Plagiarism is a difficult thing to determine, from my point of view. We were given a few examples, some of which were plagiarism, some were not. I got a few of these wrong as I didn’t fully understand the point. I do now, as it was explained.

After lunch we were working on our assignment. I enjoy this time we have to work on our assignment, I got a lot done and it helps having all the software in college. I finished off my sketches, designed my feedback form and decided on my site requirements, referring back to my goals. I also tested out some colour combinations with browser friendly RGB colours, Krause(2002)Colour Index, How Design Books. (bit of practice there!!)
I left college feeling tired and ready for my holiday!!