Monday, 20 December 2010

Analysis of existing systems/products similar to myproject:

Yummy Mummy Asia
Similarities: weekly blog, categories, what is happening in Hong Kong, tags
Title Analysis:
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Saturday, 11 December 2010

Research Objectives and Results:

  • List items you need to find out about.
  • List the results/conclusions of the information that you have found out.
  • If you have tested any software/equipment show results/conclusions with screenshots/photos/video/text

I will need to find a good website making website
I found:

  1. Website 1:
    Build a Website when you have absolutely no knowledge of web hosting, ecommerce, ftp, php, cgi or anything else!
  2. Website 2: Webs:
    At Webs, we provide all the tools you need to create a professional-looking website in just minutes. Add a blog, forum, calendar, photo gallery, video gallery and much more. Want to turn your site into a social network? No problem! You also have the ability to add members and create personal profiles so you can turn your site into a community where friends, colleagues and family can connect and collaborate.
  3. Website 3: Site Fusion
    Our fast, flexible website builder
    If you can turn on a computer, you can use SiteFusion
    Build a beautiful site, without messy coding
    Also for designers: slice PSDs perfectly, in seconds
  4. Website 4: Moon Fruit
    Build your own professional looking site quickly and easily with our do-it-yourself website builder

Friday, 3 December 2010

Why use ICT for this?

Why create a website for my client?
This is due to the fact that the majority of people now have 24/7 access to the computer and the internet. People spend more time researching on the computer due to the simple fact that it is easier and faster. This is why my client asked me to create a website for the Yummy Mummy group: it will have a higher chance of success on the internet, where people can find it instantly, comment, and add daily blogs effortlessly.

Explain why an ICT solution is appropriate considering other non-ICT solutions in your explanation.
Yummy Mummy blogs daily, giving other mums who want information about upcoming events, places they can go and what is fashionable at the moment. They would be unable to blog daily if Yummy Mummy were, let's say, a magazine. Naturally a magazine would be the non-ICT solution were they to need one, however, it would take much more skill, they woud need more pictures and more work to be done, were it this solution.
Yummy Mummy bloggers go online for ten minutes, write up the day's blog, add a photo and log off again, done in less than fifteen minutes, whereas a non-ICT solution would be spent longer. If somone wrote something they wanted to change, they could change it easily, whereas for a non-ICT solution, they wouldn't be able to change it.

Consider wider (social, organisational, legal etc) implications of providing an ICT solution.
From blogging, you can add posts on Facebook, Twitter and MySpace, making it a larger social network, and in this day in age, if you want to be known, being social is the fastest way. It is also due to Economics, since it is cheaper to use the internet and to blog rather than pay for a magazine.