Monday, 20 December 2010
Analysis of existing systems/products similar to myproject:
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:
- Website 1:
Build a Website when you have absolutely no knowledge of web hosting, ecommerce, ftp, php, cgi or anything else! - 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. - Website 3: Site Fusion
Our fast, flexible website builder
If you can turn on a computer, you can use SiteFusion
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Friday, 3 December 2010
Why use ICT for this?
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.
Thursday, 25 November 2010
Gantt and Pert Charts
- - bar charts
- time shedules
- start and finish dates of the terminal elements and summary elements of a project
- breakdown structure of project
- show dependency (i.e., precedence network) relationships between activities
- show current schedule status using percent-complete shadings and a vertical "TODAY" line as shown here
Pert Charts

- stands for Program Evaluation Review Technique
- project management tool used to schedule, organize, and coordinate tasks within a project
- methodology developed by the U.S. Navy in the 1950s to manage the Polaris submarine missile program
- presents a graphic illustration of a project
- presented as a network diagram
- consists of numbered nodes (either circles or rectangles) representing events, or milestones in the project linked by labelled vectors (directional lines) representing tasks in the project
- direction of arrows on lines shows sequence of tasks
- In the diagram, for example, the tasks between nodes 1, 2, 4, 8, and 10 must be completed in sequence
- these are called dependent or serial tasks
- the tasks between nodes 1 and 2, and nodes 1 and 3 are not dependent on the completion of one to start the other and can be undertaken simultaneously
- these tasks are called parallel or concurrent tasks
- tasks that must be completed in sequence but that don't require resources or completion time are considered to have event dependency
- these are represented by dotted lines with arrows and are called dummy activities
- for example, the dashed arrow linking nodes 6 and 9 indicates that the system files must be converted before the user test can take place, but that the resources and time required to prepare for the user test (writing the user manual and user training) are on another path
- numbers on the opposite sides of the vectors indicate the time allotted for the task
(http://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/definition/PERT-chart)
Wednesday, 17 November 2010
What I shall have to do...
Monday, 8 November 2010
A question I need to answer urgently...
??? Do I write the blogs, or copy and paste what is being written on the real website ???
??? Should I just make a template for the website and let my client add the information she wants on the blogs once I'm done ???
??? Can I really do this ???
Monday, 1 November 2010
My first meeting with my Client
What is Yummy Mummy?
A website for urban moms in and around Hong Kong that offers the 'insider's guide to motherhood'. Updated daily, Yummy Mummy Asia gives the scoop on what’s fun, fashionable and cool for families in Hong Kong and beyond, and is run by a group of 8 of the city’s most in-the-know moms.
Yummy Mummy Asia provides readers with:
-A daily blog posting on a topic/event/etc that relates to moms, kids and families in and around Hong Kong. This should be prominent and featured.
-Other important 'fixed' features include: A directory (ie: Mom's Little Black Book); an event calendar/listing of the best events and activities that week in HK for kids/families; a showcased menu of the week; Q&A of the week with an expert in a variety of categories (health, fashion, nutrition, education, etc etc).
Navigation requirements:
-The blogs are all categorized across a variety of topics (health, style, home, events + activities, travel, etc), as well as by age (maternity, babies, kids, tweens, Yummy Mummies). There must be a way to search, pull up or show the past content of the blog based on these (ie: be able to pull up the past posts that have to do with Travel, for instance, or maternity).
-Posts are also 'tagged' to help users find content they are interested in. These tags are more precise than the category tags (ex: sports, beauty, fashion, etc). So likewise, there should be way to view all blog posts under a certain 'tag.'
-A search box, box for subscribe to our newsletter, plus our social media sites like facebook and twitter should be included.
Look & Feel
-YMA.com's audience is sophisticated, educated, well-traveled, and affluent. The look of the site should reflect this. We do not want the site to look like it's just for moms of little kids - we want it to look simple and polished. We don't want lots of gimmicks, but rather want a clean home page that is pleasant, easy to navigate.
-Our principle color is a shade of lilac/light purple. Pops of other secondary colors are welcome, but again we want the overall look and feel to be simple, rather than aggressive.