Making the Right Choice

Choice of text colour and layout makes a big difference to the message you communicate

Take a look at the following examples

Consider the Design for…

A Children’s Nursery

Consider the Design for…

An Undertaker

Consider the Design for…

A Dentist

Font SelectionThe two main types of fonts are those with

serifs and those without - sans serif.

It is worth looking at font catalogues on-line to see what we can find that is close to what we want

As we have seen font selection makes a big difference to the message we communicate

Take time thinking about your fonts

What we write is ImportantGet your work proof read by somebody you

trustYou are the least qualified person to judge

your own work – the customer is always rightBadly written text is unprofessional and is a

good way to send out the wrong message http://webpagesthatsuck.smugmug.com/Other/Bad-Web-Design/6837311_tyvTi#!

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Select an Appropriate StyleAbstract

Yo dudes. Electronic marking grids (eGrids is another name for em) is a fab tool for helping students learn before they finish their work and after (cool). The eGrids used with another rad idea called “driving tests” and give us a way of giving students the lo down on their crap and help teachers chillax at their pad (just kiddin’). Students get their eGrid off my web site but don’t you think they can write anything they like ... no!. They can take a gander at their grade but only the boss man can change the grade. The governor gets to say wot he likes. Some students may like it some may need a slap. I’m gonna use an action research approach to find out if this crap worked or not (cleaver eh?). Hommies on the second year are gonna use this crack. I’m gonna get my info’ by counting things and seeing what the word is on the street. Gonna read some books n shit to see what the big wigs have to say too. Wicked.

AbstractElectronic marking grids (eGrids) are a

mechanism for formative, summative and continuous assessment. These eGrids used

in conjunction with viva based “driving tests” provide a mechanism for improving feedback to students and making the most

of staff time spent in assessment. The eGrid is made available to students in

read only format via the internet. Students may view their own grid to see progress so

far and model the grades required to achieve their desired outcomes. Tutors have read-write access to the grids and

may input grades with guidance for improvement. The driving test style of

assessment allows students to be critiqued on their work whilst allowing opportunity

for them to recover any problems or misunderstandings. The study will adopt an action research approach to explore

the impact and attitudes to the use of eGrids on two second year Computing modules. The paper takes into account quantitative and qualitative data from

both staff and students along with a review of relevant pedagogic theory.

Abstract for a research paper...

Some Design RulesContrast

Make different parts of the site that are different – look different!

RepetitionRepeat visual elements of the design throughout the

site.

AlignmentGive items a visual association to other items.

ProximityItems related to each other should be grouped close to

each other.

ContrastWhen you make two items different –

make them really different!

Repetition

Alignment

ProximityMake use of visual organisation to convey content organisation

CSCI1413 Programming Year 1CSCI2608 Multimedia and Internet TechnologyPersonal TutoringFinal Year Project ProposalsCreating Database Applications in VB.NETVisual Basic.NETAccess 2000 TrainerVisual Basic Generic guides for using VB 6 and belowNetworks and CommunicationsGuide to HTMLCSCI2002 Visual Basic as a Second LanguageCSCI2008 Networks & CommunicationsINFO1004 Application DevelopmentCSCI2010 Developing Business Database Applications

Better…CSCI1413 Programming Year 1CSCI2608 Multimedia and Internet TechnologyCSCI2002 Visual Basic as a Second LanguageCSCI2008 Networks & CommunicationsINFO1004 Application DevelopmentCSCI2010 Developing Business Database Applications

Personal TutoringFinal Year Project Proposals

Creating Database Applications in VB.NETVisual Basic Generic guides for using VB 6 and belowVisual Basic.NET

Access 2000 Trainer

Networks and CommunicationsGuide to HTML

Don’t be Afraid of White Space

Rule of Thirds

Which picture is more interesting?

Think of an Image Split into Thirds

Unseen Text in MultimediaText in Multimedia is not just about what the

user sees

Text is used to mark-up documents via HTML 5 and CSS

Text plays an important part in communication of data via XML

HTML 5 HTML 5 has three types of mark-up:

Elements Attributes Values

Elements An element comprises: Start Tag Content <h1>This is a heading</h1> End tag

Attributes and Values Attributes contain information about the data specified by the

attributes value

e.g. <img src="mypicture.jpg" />

XML• A meta-language contains data used to describe

data• May be used to define other mark-up languages

(e.g. HTML 5)• Provides a set of rules and a basic structure and

from this other document formats may be devised• E.g. PDF, DOCX, HTML 5

• Applications of XML extend beyond the web• XML may be used in many other non web related

contexts

Media Centre MasterMedia Centre Master is a free program that may be used to

manage films saved as DivX files http://forums.mediacentermaster.com

 The program allows the creation of “scan folders” into

which you place your video file (MP4, AVI etc) in a folder named as the title of the film

For example...

Program communicates with remote data source e.g. IMDB to obtain data about the film e.g.

How this Looks in an Application…

XML Hierarchical Structure

XML Declaration : version, encoding

Root element

ElementTag <ProductionYear> </ProductionYear>

Attributes and Values<FilmDetail Title="28 Days Later" IMDBrating="7.6" ProductionYear="2002">

Attribute (Title)

Value “28 Days Later”