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    #242
    JFlah
    Registered Users Posts: 752 ✭✭✭JFlah


    siblers wrote: »
    Web design wasn't too bad, started off as a nightmare and couldn't get nothing to work but came togehter in the end. Can relax at least for a couple of days now

    Only fairly ok with it had lots of trouble getting it formatted correctly but same as you finished up not too bad should do OK I think


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    #243
    AntiRip
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    Funnily enough I found Web Design hard enough, even though Java is considered harder I have the full 35% in the bag.

    I find it hard to judge the margin sizes, boarders etc. from the print off word document. I got it somewhat ok, not 100% though. Couldn't shift the body border even though I was adjusting the margins. It was very frustrating.

    Was one hell of a tough week. Just relaxing this evening which is soooo good :)


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    #244
    siblers
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    Doing this digital imaging assigment feels like an out of body experiene at this stage, bloody brainstorming is just beyond tedious . Was gonna do the movie poster option but I don't see how I could make my brainstorming any different from the first assigment and this American Football one i'm finding quite hard to research. Very hard tryign to find any posters that I can include in my research


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    #245
    JFlah
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    siblers wrote: »
    Doing this digital imaging assigment feels like an out of body experiene at this stage, bloody brainstorming is just beyond tedious . Was gonna do the movie poster option but I don't see how I could make my brainstorming any different from the first assigment and this American Football one i'm finding quite hard to research. Very hard tryign to find any posters that I can include in my research

    Similar feelings to you , am doing the movie option but gotta say the creative juices are completely not flowing ..... was hoping to plough through it fairly quickly but .... looking bad:(

    Finding the website hard to get to grips with too , have a bit done but frankly it looks ~****E~ :((


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    #246
    siblers
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    Im not gonna worry too much on Digital Imaging as I don't need much to pass but still want to do as well as possible, I'm dreading the web design, especially as the project itself is pretty rubbish. Like they say we are meant to include a page on special offers but on the website itself there are feck all special offers, there's very little info to go on to build the site.


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    #247
    JFlah
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    siblers wrote: »
    Im not gonna worry too much on Digital Imaging as I don't need much to pass but still want to do as well as possible, I'm dreading the web design, especially as the project itself is pretty rubbish. Like they say we are meant to include a page on special offers but on the website itself there are feck all special offers, there's very little info to go on to build the site.
    Just make up offers but it,ll be a fairly sparse page not too thrilled with the project either would have liked a selection to chose from at least.Not to bothered by the whole competition thing just do enough for a decent mark and I,ll be happy as a pig in ...


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    #248
    AntiRip
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    siblers wrote: »
    Im not gonna worry too much on Digital Imaging as I don't need much to pass but still want to do as well as possible, I'm dreading the web design, especially as the project itself is pretty rubbish. Like they say we are meant to include a page on special offers but on the website itself there are feck all special offers, there's very little info to go on to build the site.

    Yeah, the website is killing me atm. Mine is slowly looking like the original one, I might as well copy the code!

    We're given all the images of the original site, it's only a matter of placing the images in different locations around the page and giving the site a different theme. How many people will have the same theme judging from the logo and the colour of the van? :)

    I would have rathered our own site tbh.

    Digital Imaging is much the same. As I chose a movie poster for the first ca, this one is the exact same. I'm just changing the genre.

    How's the rest of ye doing?


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    #249
    JFlah
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    AntiRip wrote: »
    Yeah, the website is killing me atm. Mine is slowly looking like the original one, I might as well copy the code!

    We're given all the images of the original site, it's only a matter of placing the images in different locations around the page and giving the site a different theme. How many people will have the same theme judging from the logo and the colour of the van? :)

    I would have rathered our own site tbh.

    Digital Imaging is much the same. As I chose a movie poster for the first ca, this one is the exact same. I'm just changing the genre.

    How's the rest of ye doing?

    Yup a lot of repetiton coming up in the website , think nearly everyone will have the same color scheme for sure! Digital Imaging assignment is so close to the 1st one that it seems nearly pointless to be honest we could have been given something more interesting/challenging at this stage have the bulk of my photoshop stuff finished loads of time to add to research book then , cart before the horse but its worked well so far :)


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    #250
    siblers
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    I haven't done a single thing since last Tuesday, I've the brainstorming done for the digital imaging, know what they poster design is gonna be just need to go and do it. Heading into college tomorrow and gonna spend the next 3 days hammering away on the website. Dreading it


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    #251
    siblers
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    How do you resize an image without using the method we did in first semester (<img src="" height="200" etc)? If I use that method my images will be all over the place on different resolutions. Thanks


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    #252
    JFlah
    Registered Users Posts: 752 ✭✭✭JFlah


    siblers wrote: »
    How do you resize an image without using the method we did in first semester (<img src="" height="200" etc)? If I use that method my images will be all over the place on different resolutions. Thanks

    I.d say resizing in Photoshop is your best bet there


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    #253
    siblers
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    Brilliant, bloody thing is an absolute nightmare


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    #254
    Opinicus
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    I'd say to do it based on screen resolution/window size you'd have to look at using percentages in the tags or maybe some javascript. They might not look the best using the percentage route though.


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    #255
    AntiRip
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    Opinicus wrote: »
    I'd say to do it based on screen resolution/window size you'd have to look at using percentages in the tags or maybe some javascript. They might not look the best using the percentage route though.

    I say we can't use any javascript as we haven't covered it, would probably loss marks as we would be just copying and pasting code.

    @siblers

    Don't think there's any need to resize your pictures once your content tag is big enough. If you do I would use the free transform in PS while holding the shift key to maintain aspect. Also save as web images around 60% jpeg to keep the size Small without losing too much resolution


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    #256
    JFlah
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    This damn web site has my head done in !! It,s so similar in theme to whats there already that all the work seems in vain, am strongly thinking of starting from scratch again and ignoring all the colors on the original site and going for a 100% complete different look , just not sure I have the heart for it


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    #257
    siblers
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    I went in the last 3 days for about 4/5 hours straight and so far all I've managed to do is the logo at the very top, some rubbish looking menu buttons and 3 images below that. I think this assigment is a bit too much, when you compare the crappy examples we've done in class to what we are expected to do, I think its asking a lot. Had we started a website from scratch in class from day one back in January this would be a lot, lot easier. Its awfully frustrating.


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    #258
    AntiRip
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    siblers wrote: »
    I went in the last 3 days for about 4/5 hours straight and so far all I've managed to do is the logo at the very top, some rubbish looking menu buttons and 3 images below that. I think this assigment is a bit too much, when you compare the crappy examples we've done in class to what we are expected to do, I think its asking a lot. Had we started a website from scratch in class from day one back in January this would be a lot, lot easier. Its awfully frustrating.

    It's a big project alright and I'm afraid if we don't have the backbone taken out of it in the next week we will be swamped as we have CA3 in Java the week after next, Linux lab CA, Architecture reports and God knows what else I'm forgetting. Jesus, it's only a month till the final exams. It's going to be some ride over the next 4-5 weeks!

    All that's expected next week for web is some sketches, God help the people that haven't actually started building the site yet I think as I'm at it a week and have the index page half finished.


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    #259
    JFlah
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    siblers wrote: »
    I went in the last 3 days for about 4/5 hours straight and so far all I've managed to do is the logo at the very top, some rubbish looking menu buttons and 3 images below that. I think this assigment is a bit too much, when you compare the crappy examples we've done in class to what we are expected to do, I think its asking a lot. Had we started a website from scratch in class from day one back in January this would be a lot, lot easier. Its awfully frustrating.

    I agree, I,m not sure how many students have the capabilities needed at this stage , it seems an enormous amount of work for something Blaaaaah at the end!


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    #260
    siblers
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    AntiRip wrote: »
    It's a big project alright and I'm afraid if we don't have the backbone taken out of it in the next week we will be swamped as we have CA3 in Java the week after next, Linux lab CA, Architecture reports and God knows what else I'm forgetting. Jesus, it's only a month till the final exams. It's going to be some ride over the next 4-5 weeks!

    All that's expected next week for web is some sketches, God help the people that haven't actually started building the site yet I think as I'm at it a week and have the index page half finished.

    Ive not even looked over the GUI stuff for java, least we got the lab classes to do that stuff. Op Syststem CA is in the final week of classes so at least got a bit of time before that nightmare. Final exams are gonna be the easiest part of the semester :D


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    #261
    JFlah
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    siblers wrote: »
    Ive not even looked over the GUI stuff for java, least we got the lab classes to do that stuff. Op Syststem CA is in the final week of classes so at least got a bit of time before that nightmare. Final exams are gonna be the easiest part of the semester :D
    Yeah seems to me that there could be some sort of a better method than just having piles of stuff thrown at you in one mad spell. So much to do.... :(


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    #262
    kerry4sam
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    JFlah wrote: »
    This damn web site has my head done in !! It,s so similar in theme to whats there already that all the work seems in vain, am strongly thinking of starting from scratch again and ignoring all the colors on the original site and going for a 100% complete different look , just not sure I have the heart for it

    just out of interest: Is their any way for you to start a new while having your current work saved? That way you could see how the new site goes for you and if it doesn't go to plan you could revert to the one you currently have :confused:


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    #263
    JFlah
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    kerry4sam wrote: »
    just out of interest: Is their any way for you to start a new while having your current work saved? That way you could see how the new site goes for you and if it doesn't go to plan you could revert to the one you currently have :confused:

    Exactly what I am doing have the original 75% finished so not too much work to do to complete it if the new one goes pear shaped, should be quicker too I have more of a grasp on what I am doing now


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    #264
    siblers
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    In Digital Imaging, what's the story with the banner? The brief doesn't give any information about it apart from its size.


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    #265
    AntiRip
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    Antirip wrote:
    The banner is needed just for the American Football poster anyway.

    Correction. Just found out that you have to make a banner for either choice.


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    #266
    siblers
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    Im doing the American football one alright, have the brainstorming done and I know exactly what the poster will be(unlike first time round which just melted my head), One lad asked in class about the banner but Grainne said she didn't know either, was hoping the other lecturer would have said.


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    #267
    AntiRip
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    siblers wrote: »
    Im doing the American football one alright, have the brainstorming done and I know exactly what the poster will be(unlike first time round which just melted my head), One lad asked in class about the banner but Grainne said she didn't know either, was hoping the other lecturer would have said.

    No nothing said. Everyone is our class is doing the movie poster much to the disappointment of the lecturer :). I've done it arse-ways again this time, I've the poster done and now have to do the brainstorming :D


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    #268
    siblers
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    I reckon most people do it that way, I knew what my poster was gonna be well before I did any brainstorming, but would rather just get that out of the way.

    Also, you are probably aware but figured id just say it, the lab reports for architecture aren't due in till next week, the labs this week are for catching up for anyone who missed any lab class so far.


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    #269
    AntiRip
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    siblers wrote: »
    Also, you are probably aware but figured id just say it, the lab reports for architecture aren't due in till next week, the labs this week are for catching up for anyone who missed any lab class so far.

    Oh very good, had forgotten that. I finished it this morning so it's nice to have it out of the way anyway. I want to concentrate this week on Java and Web Design.

    Am I right in saying that CA3 is from lab10 to lab14/lab15? So we'll get a question either on arrays or gui or both?


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    #270
    JFlah
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    AntiRip wrote: »
    Oh very good, had forgotten that. I finished it this morning so it's nice to have it out of the way anyway. I want to concentrate this week on Java and Web Design.

    Am I right in saying that CA3 is from lab10 to lab14/lab15? So we'll get a question either on arrays or gui or both?

    From talking to JB I'm pretty sure that CA3 is strictly based on GUI so hopefully might not be that bad as you are given a list of all methods etc you need just have to figure how to use them !!


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    #271
    AntiRip
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    JFlah wrote: »
    From talking to JB I'm pretty sure that CA3 is strictly based on GUI so hopefully might not be that bad as you are given a list of all methods etc you need just have to figure how to use them !!

    That's great. He was saying all right people do better in the last CA as it's very building based with no decision making (loops) :). There's a lot of making object references and linking up jlabels to jframes etc. It's not too bad until I saw some of the questions on labsheet 14! Private methods and it looks like the whole format of the solution is upside down with the main method at the bottom of the question. May need to read it again a few times :)


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