completion of the gantt chart

Today I completed my Gantt Chart on Excel. Although I found it difficult estimating the exact time frame I would need for each thing I have to create, I believe (and hope) that my predictions are accurate enough.

3rd January

In class, I spent the lesson creating a Gantt Chart and catching up with what needed to be caught up with. I have to finish the Gantt Chart for homework. As I have already finished my mind map, I only have to finish the Gantt Chart. This term, I will be working on my research, looking through magazines, websites and books to find information on how to create a good website.

Yummy Mummy Website Analysis

Analysis of existing systems/products similar to myproject:

Yummy Mummy Asia

Similarities: weekly blog, categories, what is happening in Hong Kong, tags

Title Analysis:

Navigation Analysis:

Yummy Mummy UK

Title Analysis:

Navigation Analysis:

Woman's Day

Title Analysis:

Navigation Analysis:

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

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.

Gantt and Pert Charts

Gantt Charts

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• - 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)