Things to do this week

Hi everybody

I think we got a lot done in yesterday’s session but as a consequence it might be a useful time to reflect on what we have learnt and what we still need to learn.

Comments please

Would you please comment on this post giving me:

• up to three things you feel confident that you understand so far;
• up to three things that you you need to do more work on;

Things to do on your blogs

• complete activity 402 making an entry on your blog and linking it to your web page which you have uploaded to your wiki;
• comment on at least one other post as soon as possible;
• at the end of the week take a look at who has commented on yours;

Remember that when somebody comments on your post you must comment on their post.

Reminder for this week

Hi everybody,

As I remember it we agreed to do a number of things by next week:

• finish producing a web site, uploading it to a wiki and making a link to it from a commentary about how good a web design it is;
• comment on other people’s blog post;
• respond to my feedback post;

I will use your feedback on the session to look at over the next few weeks. I will also take a look at some of your posts about your web design and make some comments over the next week.

Rowland

Web site critique update ….

I have looked at and commented on some more excellent critiques of web sites:

• Boz critiquing a site about MOT testing
• Anne has found a truly awful web site
• Rich has found some irritating animations
• Sammie Jayne has found an interesting sales site

I also note that there were a number of useful comments that people have made on other people’s critiques. This sort of debate is a good motivator and helps in our understanding of the ideas put forward about web design.

Looking at web site critiques

I took a look at your blogs and was pleased to see a number of well thought out web design critiques. Additionally there were some comments made about other peoples critiques which added to the value of the original message. If you are like me then you find it encouraging when people take the trouble to comment on your posts.

So far I have looked at and commented on:

• Kate’s post on Bad web Design and her post on  Dear Diary
• Paul’s post about a marmite web site
• Maries post about salsa web site 
• Ross’ site from a web design company (though you might not think it is one!!)
• Craig’s site about creative art
• Robert’s site about games playing

Keep up the good work. It would be nice to see a web site critique from everybody and a comment on another critique from each of you, by monday evening.

Adding a link from this blog to my file

As an example of what to do in Activity 202 I have uploaded the simple example file to the module wiki and have made a link here so that it can be displayed in your browser.

This will be a useful way of displaying our work to others so that we can get feedback on it.

Links to your blogs

I have updated the blogs page so that there are links to your blogs in the left hand navigation bar. You might like to try them out to make sure that they work.

You can also access the blog list by using the “Module blogs” link on the top right of this page.

Please introduce yourself

Hi everybody

This is a post designed to get you started at writing a comment on a blog. Later you will create your own blog on which others can comment.

Click on the comments link and follow the instructions to make a comment. Please give your name and your preferred email address.

thanks

Rowland