14. Rocky C

No, I am not going to ruin the plot for the 100th Rocky movie. But this assignment is kinda starting to feel like the Rocky movies. They never seem to end. Each one more complex than the last. (At least I hope that bit is true. I’ve never actually seen a Rocky movie *dies of shock*.

Anyways, this was my first solid day of working on the website. I can do that now since everything else is finally out of the way and I have nothing else left to distract me.

So far I have got done:

*An amazing KwikTxt Logo (Well, maybe not amazing … but I believe its memorable and actually relates to my product and thats all it needs to do!

* A splash page. Its really simple, just a giant KwikTxt logo with links down the bottom … in the logo style. But, yeah. The links go to the first two minisites and the blog as well as the third minisite. The reason I put the splash page there is because I do not want to add any development related links onto my actual 3rd minisite. I want it to keep its professionalism. Its there to sell not to promote my development so it would look silly. Apple doesn’t give you a development process of the iPhone … Just tells you that you can’t live without one and how to go about purchasing it. So thats how I want mine to be.

* The layout for the “Features” section … which took forever might I add … considering how easy it should have been! Damn things refused to align … but I got it now.

* A menu that looks like the itunes thing! and its inside the features page right now to serve as a navigation within the features section, however, I might use it for other sections as well … seeing how I go.

And that is all I believe …  I kind of have a love/hate relationship going with it at the moment.

I am trying to use a little more colour in this minisite since my last two were mostly white and shades of black. So far I am doing good. But its difficult but I dont want to over do it either. I want to stay loyal to apples “simplicity” yet give it “flavour” lol.

GRRRRRRRRR

And I just realised that my itunes-style menu doesnt work in IE. WHY DID I CHECK IT??  GRRRRR!

Okay back to the website! This is the hate part of our relationship kicking in.

13. End of Days

So, today is the 30th of October.

Almost another end. So far we have seen … the end of classes; the end of 1005, the end of 1008 the only one to remain now is the end of 1200 … Only three days to go. I decided to take a break from my diligent studies and keep you updated on ly progress.

The best “End” so far would definately have to be the end of presentations for the year. I gave my final presentation for 1200 on Friday, and I couldn’t be happier.

I must say though, I think my presentation skills on the day were far more superior than of those that I displayed during the first presentations. I didn’t even giggle. Except for that moment when a fly flew in front of the projector and for a split second I thought that it was Emma’s mind power controlling my mouse …

O.O

Anyways, Since thats all over, I can’t wait to finally hand in this assignment. Then I get like 4 amazing months of freedom!

I will miss uni though lol.

So, I can’t wait for next year!

That is the final render of my 3D model for maya … somewhat happy with it. But if it were up to me I’d still be working on it.

And that is all for now. I’m going to go and do the website now!

Wish me luck

12. Dude, where’s my marks?

For the attention of Rob Saunders:

Pleeeeeaaaaaaaasssssssssssseeeeeeeeeeeeeee can we get our marks and some feedback already? The final assignments are due next week! Next week!

This is insane I need to know what I have to do, but It’s a little hard when when we have nothing to go by. And somecriteria wouldn’t hurt either!

I am going insane! I do not know what to do with myself! In less than two weeks, all three of my major assignments are due and I am slowly losing my mind! I cannot wait ’till this semester is over. Then I can crawl in a hole and die.

Suna

11. Ressurection

Finally, After almost a week I had time to go over to my minisite one and fix those mistakes that I mentioned appeared out of nowhere in my last blog. It looks somewhat decent yet again.

 I just realised right now after comparing Minisites one and two that I liked the colours of the first one better. But whats done is done. I have bigger plans for minisite three! And Like Emma said in her blog, I need to revisit Justin’s notes to be able to pull some of them off. I should be right though. I quite enjoy the CSS and the XHTML and stuff that goes on in this course. It’s frustrating yet strangely addictive.

 Presentations start this week. Good luck to all those doing theirs on Thursday and Friday. I want to thank Rob and George for helping with my presentation thing lol. You guys are okay.

I’m presenting on the last friday, so by then hopefully most people would have lost interest and stopped showing up to uni … the smaller my audience the better. Although Rob did have a very valid point. I will meet people in life who are a lot scarier than my friends … I just really dislike public speaking!

 In other news, I missed my Maya Tut today … I accidently stayed up till 5 am chatting to my mother and watching Ugly Betty (Which I am now addicted to) and then my alarm didn’t go off … so I didn’t wake up till 10am.

The great news though is that I came in and saw Steven and turns out I have been misinformed and that nothing is due on friday! Thankgod! Because in between 1200 and 1005 as well as a 4 day staying-home-and-throwing-up duties, I’ve been neglecting Maya.

I will pick up the slack on it soon though … preferably tonight.

Anyways, this blog is not about Maya so I’ll shut up. I also looked into classes to choose for next semester. So far I have 3 at 6 units each … and two of them are compulsary lol. So I need to keep thinking. I suck at deciding things like this. Makes me think of my HSC class choices all over again!

Okay, I’ll stop blubbering. Interactive design!

Rob said he hopes to get the marks for the first two minisites out today, I am now nervous as all hell. I really wonder how I went. Hopefully good. Only time will tell I suppose. Well, time and the marks.

I guess there really is nothing left for me to say. I want to wait till I get those marks back before I make definate commitments to my minisite 3. So I will blog again after that. Right now I will just focus on my presentation I guess.

 I shall see you all tomorrow,

‘DON’T PANIC’

Suna

Ps- okay this is wierd some maya class just started while I was sitting here and their model IS due on friday! Shall I stay and pay attention since I missed mine or leave?

hahaha

10. Die another day

So, This is the day that the second Minisite is due! There are only about 8 hours left until its due. Not to worry though. I am almost finished, my layout and stuff is all okay now all I have to do is input my data and I’m done.

I just had to take a break though. I grow to hate Internet explorer more and more everyday! It had a little trouble understanding what I was telling it to do. But thats okay now. Me being the genius that I am fixed the problem and now my site is looking radical in both IE and Firefox. I do not even want to try it with any other browser at the moment.

But Something stupid happened. My first minisite is really stuffed up! I have no idea why. It looked okay a couple of days ago but now the header pic is gone and the ‘current’ link’s name in my horizontal menu kinda dropped down a bit. I dunno what to do! Hopefully, it has already been marked when it looked good!  At any rate, I will get around to fixing that up as soon as I finish the second minisite.

Also, I can be Googled now! Its awesome! My Uni Home page comes up!

This is aweosme but makes me feel a little slack that I havent filled in the info yet and everything is still ‘Lorem Ipsum’. So yeah, I’ll be fixing that up soon too!

Anyways, I’ve had enough of random website talking. I should get back to doing it again.

Rob and Kaz both ended up showing up yesterday, and Rob told us the things he wanted in the website … So I’ve stopped stressing now. Although I still would have liked feedback from the first Minisite before submitting the second one. I guess you can’t win them all though.

9. Anger Management

There are some steps that I have found are essential to take when you want to release some anger without making a stupid move. The main one consistes of a lot of imagination. That is, imagine the thing or person you are angry at is destroyed or killed. Works wonders! However, when you have to be constantly be faced with the enemy (ie the computer) it can be almost impossible to mentally destroy it since it is sitting right in front of you. Teasing you with a smirk grin … waiting for you to give it another chance to go astray.

In this case you need an ultraforce of strength … to stop yourself from physically destroying it! And what happens when the reason for your frustration is because something has gone missing? You can’t get rid of something thats not there in the first place.

 So here I sit, a day before the second minisite is due. The computer is right here mocking me … and my lecturers are not. Truth be told, the computer is an innoceent victom. It is me who is to blame. I really am the one who has no idea what to do or what is expected. I mean, sure it says that we must expand on our idea, put up the new prototype and evaluation things. But how?

 How when er have not recieved any feedback from out lecturer on the first minisites that we have done? How are we to know what to improve on? What to shift our focus on? how to do the layout? Should it be consistent with the first or completely different.

It is an awkward position to be in and I am slowly losing my mind! I will get about to doing the website soon. I mean, it should be easy now that I am an expert in the creating of websites, I just don’t know what to include in it and who to ask for help. And since it is now 11am … I am going to get started and hope for the best.

 Oh … and I have had no car since moday night It blew up or something on the m5. Crappy Crappy Crappy. I miss my wheels. A lot.

The end … oh … and despite everything going crappy … I have a little light in my life still … barely

 I’ll see you, my adoring fans, at a later date.

Suna