The lecture overall explored the three major upcoming assessed items; the Tradeshow (next contact studio), the Final Report (deadline extended to 4th Nov, 4pm) and the Portfolio (due 14 Nov, 4pm).
Notes I took from the lecture. Not sure if all is readable.
One of the many things i got from today's lecture was the tradeshow. Technically, i did know it existed before today but i didnt know much about it since the lecture that it was introduced in happened to be the only lecture ive missed. What i find unfortunate about it though is the huge amount of effort Lorna makes it sound like. Really though.. past tradeshows have had students dressing up and making large fancy posters for it. At current, my group havent even spoken about the tradeshow together once, let alone the presentation we intend to display. Apart from this, i was also introduced to the fact that we were going to need a basic pitch to go with the tradeshow. Not one where there would be a script, but one where everyone would basically improvise with ease because wed know every single detail about our project enough to talk about.
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After the lecture i set off to a library and began to construct my portfolio. Since (if you remembered), i spent literally three hours (unintentionally) designing my blog (mostly due to procrastination to actually start the posts that day), i felt that it would be nice if i based by portfolio on the design of my blog. Ive been posting regular enough this semester to have gotten so used to the design that i feel like the combination of colours, fonts etc are my trademark.
The Homepage/About Me page that ill add more to eventually.
Projects page. Three projects A, B and C as links, #A2D4B0 as hovered colour. Note that I will obviously need to change the content that i have temporarily added.
Reflections Page. Hover colour for the navigation menu is black over #A2D4B0 font by the way.
Other optional work. Have a 70% feeling i wont end up using this page since i automatically skip optional choices and im kind of very lazy. Or i could sacrifice sleep on the night before the due date doing it. This is actually quite predictable too.
I have looked over at some past portfolios and the first one (thats pink and all) is SO good?? How even. I cant even comprehend it. I will never match its level. Anyway i noticed that most portfolios had a picture of the student on the About Me page and realised that a picture would also add nicely to mine. But its soo uncomfortable seeing a picture of myself every time i open the page. Its already so awkward seeing my picture every time i log on to post a new update on this blog. Its like me starring at me. So uncomfortable. You're lying if you dont feel this when you see photos of yourself too.
Moving on, the colours i have used in my design are white, #A2D4B0 (the green colour) and black. I am a person that really prefers and finds simplicity to be better and more appealing than complicated things (depending on how its done), so i have avoided adding any other colours. Note that my profile picture has a green background too?? And im wearing a white shirt?? This wasnt even planned. I love it when life is so spontaneously nice to me.
The background image that i have used for both my blog and portfolio is 'nice_snow' from subtlepatterns.com. If you're a person that also really likes simplicity, i recommend this website. Its so simple. I love it ahah. It was a suggested website to use for designing and inspiring our websites for DECO1400 last semester.
Basic structure of my portfolio includes the navigation bar at the top of every page (consisting of ABOUT ME, PROJECTS, REFLECTION and OTHER WORK). At the footer of every page, I have included my name, student number, course + semester & year and a button that is clicked to navigate back to the top of the page if my pages get too lengthy (which considering my blog is really likely).
Finally something else that i have noticed is the slow updates when i access my portfolio from http://deco1800.uqcloud.net/portfolios/, where i can also see everyone else's. This is used to test whether the markers will be able to see my portfolio when they mark it. Yes, mine is connected but when i access it, some pages are not updated and still contain my old versions. Im assuming this is normal? Because after some time it changes. But my reflections page was not like what is now (there was no navigation bar) this afternoon, and now that im accessing it again at 11.26pm, its still not updated? I dont see anything odd in my coding so im assuming it is slow at updating? (yes im at home connected to UQ's VPN). But yea, this shouldnt be a problem. Hopefully.
Finally, our application as a team project so far: no update really needed for this.. were still quite behind. As suggested last week, it was said that in order to catch up we should attend every workshop this week (well weve skipped todays one so far so..). At the moment on our Facebook group, it was asked if we should have a meeting tomorrow. No one has responded and for some reason i dont want to. This really indicates the closeness and level of interactivity in our group..
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