Assignment reviews

A number of students submitted work over the summer. I want to meet each student to go through the submissions.

I believe that I have contacted all the relevant students at this stage. If you submitted something but haven't heard from me, please e-mail me.

In the meantime you should sign up for a meeting slot at
http://www.doodle.com/2bbpbwgunyqhxuuk

SOFT7001 Deadline

The deadline for on time submissions for SOFT7001 is now passed.

I will provide feedback soon (hopefully today) to students who submitted URLs

The next important date is the 1 week late deadline. That is noon on Friday 17 August. The standard -10% late penalty will apply.

SOFT7001 Autumn Repeats

Every student I have met who needs to repeat this module has expressed an interest in getting it done and dusted before the summer break.

The specification is largely the same, but students must make a new site. Fixing the old one is not enough.

Make sure you are registered for the repeat. The spec is over there --->
under pages.

I'm happy to look at drafts and give feedback.

SOFT7001 Assignments

• Petr K
• Kyron L
• Ou L
• Sam L
• Colm M
• Ed M
• Chris P
• Kamil W

SOFT7001 Class

Some students are still working on the assignment. Remember to get the URL in on time. There's nothing stopping you from updating the site in the meantime.

Colin

SOFT7001 Class canceled this afternoon

I'm not feeling great so I'm going to head home early today. But if you are stuck for something please e-mail me before 1430.

SOFT7001 Extension

The deadline for the project is extended to noon on Friday 02 December. Students must e-mail the URL for the website to Colin before then.

SOFT7001 Class

Students worked away on their projects.

We discovered that if the max-width media query doesn't do what need, maybe the max-device-width will do the trick.

SOFT7001 Room change Dec 01

On Dec 02 we will be in IT2.2 instead of IT2.3

SOFT7001 Class

Students worked any on their websites. My contribution was minimal.

SOFT7001 Class

I arrived a bit late.

I met with students and they showed me what they have done so far.

Some issues that came up.

The requirement not to use too many classes is not a total ban. Obviously the menu list is going to be a different class of list

Yo don't need to specifically check for iPhones. Below a certain width or height we can presume we are in  mobile phone territory

SOFT7001 Class

We firmed up the assignment specification

SOFT7001 Class 24

We looked at sprites

Slides: http://atlantis.cit.ie/interaction/notes1/PDFs/css-sprites-11.pdf

I went to each student for an update on the project.  Some still have to decide what they are doing. Some were workng on stuff for other classes.

SOFT7001 Class

I completely forgot to go to class. Sorry

SOFT7001 Class 22

We discussed the assignment. Students need not spend time worrying about content.  Dummy text can be used for the body of web pages, but the menus and structure must make sense.

I met with students individually to discuss their project plans.

K: games site
S: still thinking about it. might do 2 sites
T: still thinking and experimenting
CP: fan site
CM: sports shop
P: online shop
E: food site
O: planed restaurant site. But I advised against it. Need something about 20 pages


In response to a question  I announced that students need only worry about Firefox and Safari.

SOFT7001 Class 21

I came to class with an idea for the project that would save the students trying to come up with content. But no one was especially inspired. I think people want to do their own thing, which is perfectly fine.

I met with students ask asked about their plans. None have really made a start.

SOFT7001 A List Apart

If there was a website that was the sponsor of this module it would be alistapart.com

It's full of information about the main issues this module deals with.

There are articles on CSS, fluid layout, and mobile design. Students looking for tips and design ideas for their assignment should definitely check it out.

SOFT7001 Class 20

We discussed the assessment for this module. The website is to be delivered in two part according to the assessment schedule for the module descriptor, but given that it is now week 08 it doesn't make sense for it to be in two deliverables. I will be providing feedback though on a on-going basis.

Students need to make a start on their websites soon.

We looked at the learning outcomes of the module descriptor. Students' websites should demonstrate competence in all of these areas. I also discussed other things that I expect to see in the websites.

• Fluid design that allows the page to display in at all (reasonable) dimensions
• Images on the page should reposition and resize as the page dimensions change
• A mobile phone version of the site that displays well both horizontally and vertically
• minimum of 15 pages. but 25 would be more like it
• nested list based CSS menus
• a style sheet for print

Students are free to show off who much CSS they know

Students will lose marks for over use of classes (users of Dreamweaver beware)

I met with students individually to discuss their plans for their sites

audio: soft7001-20020111101.m4a

SOFT7001 Class 18

I asked the students to work on media queries and to make different pages for desktops machine and phones. This requires tha pages be hosted somewhere however.

Example

mystyle.css:

@media screen and (orientation: landscape)
{
body {background-color:yellow;}
}

@media screen and (orientation: portrait)
{
body {background-color:gray;}
}

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