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JFlah · 11-04-2012 8:10pm

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

siblers · 11-04-2012 10:08pm

Brilliant, bloody thing is an absolute nightmare

Opinicus · 12-04-2012 12:06am

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.

AntiRip · 12-04-2012 11:10am

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

JFlah · 13-04-2012 8:36pm

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

siblers · 13-04-2012 10:47pm

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.

AntiRip · 13-04-2012 11:31pm

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.

JFlah · 14-04-2012 11:14am

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!

siblers · 14-04-2012 3:48pm

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

JFlah · 14-04-2012 5:33pm

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

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....

kerry4sam · 14-04-2012 6:04pm

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

JFlah · 14-04-2012 6:50pm

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

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

siblers · 15-04-2012 4:33pm

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

AntiRip · 15-04-2012 4:49pm

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.

siblers · 15-04-2012 5:15pm

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.

AntiRip · 15-04-2012 5:43pm

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

siblers · 15-04-2012 6:36pm

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.

AntiRip · 15-04-2012 8:49pm

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?

JFlah · 15-04-2012 10:19pm

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 !!

AntiRip · 15-04-2012 10:31pm

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

JFlah · 15-04-2012 10:44pm

AntiRip wrote: »

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

Yeah GUI got fairly tricky but manageable I reckon with a little effort, I hope anyway

JFlah · 16-04-2012 3:11pm

AntiRip wrote: »

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

The tutorial today was very good regarding CA3 definitely well worth attending this week you,ll feel great about the CA afterwards

AntiRip · 17-04-2012 11:05am

Just edited a previous post instead of writing a new one.

The banner is needed just for the American Football poster anyway.

Found out you need to do the banner for either choice of project.

JFlah · 17-04-2012 3:26pm

AntiRip wrote: »

Just edited a previous post instead of writing a new one.

Found out you need to do the banner for either choice of project.

Yeah thankfully the banner is pretty easy, just need to write a "script" now!

siblers · 17-04-2012 7:08pm

I neve realised that we have to use the John Woods logo from the website instead of off the x drive. The fact that the text is white from the website is a bit of a problem for me and I had made quite a nice looking logo (with contact info) bit of a pain having to redo it again.

JFlah · 17-04-2012 8:20pm

siblers wrote: »

I neve realised that we have to use the John Woods logo from the website instead of off the x drive. The fact that the text is white from the website is a bit of a problem for me and I had made quite a nice looking logo (with contact info) bit of a pain having to redo it again.

Yeah the biggest problems with the website are the CRAP logo the very restrictive color scheme available based on the logo and they simply want too much information on some pages , very difficult to have them uncluttered, why oh why could we have not had even a limited choice

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siblers · 17-04-2012 11:03pm

JFlah wrote: »

Yeah the biggest problems with the website are the CRAP logo the very restrictive color scheme available based on the logo and they simply want too much information on some pages , very difficult to have them uncluttered, why oh why could we have not had even a limited choice (

Yeah, im finding it quite difficult trying to have the home page withou too much clutter but its so akward, and some products have very little information, like the calving camera system has absolutley no information. The whole thing is pure frustrating, whatever about having to do it on the one topic but having to do it in such a specific manner is just too restrictive especially for students with such limited experience.

Opinicus · 19-04-2012 5:49am

Why oh Why didn't I do more work when I was off for Easter?!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH

AntiRip · 19-04-2012 7:26am

Opinicus wrote: »

Why oh Why didn't I do more work when I was off for Easter?!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH

You're either up very early or up very late

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Opinicus · 19-04-2012 7:39am

Sleep is for losers! or people who have already finished their projects!

AntiRip · 19-04-2012 8:46am

Opinicus wrote: »

Sleep is for losers! or people who have already finished their projects!

I truly fear for what's ahead of us

In all my years I've spent in college I've only once ever did an all nighter. Took me 2 or 3 days to get over it and swore never to do it again. I love my sleep

siblers · 19-04-2012 12:13pm

I did an all nighter for the digital imaging assigment, it was horrible. It wasn't by being lazy but I most have designed about 5 different covers before I finally settled on one. Not fun going into a 3 hour web design lecture with no sleep:D

Encrypted Pigeon · 19-04-2012 12:55pm

siblers wrote: »

Not fun going into a 3 hour web design lecture with no sleep:D

Your going to love 2nd year, all the sleep/coffee/amphetamines in the world won't help you.

siblers · 19-04-2012 9:53pm

For web design do we have to use the image of the van? Or is it optional? It looks awful

AntiRip · 19-04-2012 10:10pm

siblers wrote: »

For web design do we have to use the image of the van? Or is it optional? It looks awful

I would say yes as it looks like the main picture on original site.

Why not throw it into PS and put a border on it, maybe a shadow or other special effect. May make it stand out better on page?

siblers · 19-04-2012 11:42pm

Ill probably do alright something with it but the photo itself doesn't look great really, least it'll take up some of the home page, which im struggling to fill.

JFlah · 20-04-2012 12:20pm

siblers wrote: »

Ill probably do alright something with it but the photo itself doesn't look great really, least it'll take up some of the home page, which im struggling to fill.

I'm not 100% sure but I don,t think we HAVE to use that image I think we can just chose from the images that are suitable for our site , but don,t quote me on that!!!

siblers · 24-04-2012 4:02pm

We got an email today about web design saying it will be corrected in 1440 x 900. Are we meant to set up the style sheet with this in mind? That document about resolution wasn't much use

AntiRip · 24-04-2012 5:25pm

siblers wrote: »

We got an email today about web design saying it will be corrected in 1440 x 900. Are we meant to set up the style sheet with this in mind? That document about resolution wasn't much use

I used 960 as my page width based on the 960 grid system which is popular with web developers and it's staying like that as my divs are setup now.

The resolution will only be an issue if you don't have some positioning set up on your page because some containers may move in different sized monitors. I check my site on both 15" and 24" monitors just to make sure.

JFlah · 25-04-2012 11:09am

Thank god Digital Imaging finished at last , never want to see another research book!!! now to get cracking on web design!!

siblers · 25-04-2012 12:53pm

Just finished java CA and subsequently the final CA of the semester. Digital Imaging pretty much done too. Web Design is painfully slow, about 2 hours last night was spent one one tiny section of the products page but the more I do of it, the easier the coding is becoming. Im not havign to refer to notes or the net every few minutes, just lots and lots of minor alterations.

JFlah · 25-04-2012 12:57pm

siblers wrote: »

Just finished java CA and subsequently the final CA of the semester. Digital Imaging pretty much done too. Web Design is painfully slow, about 2 hours last night was spent one one tiny section of the products page but the more I do of it, the easier the coding is becoming. Im not havign to refer to notes or the net every few minutes, just lots and lots of minor alterations.

Yeah the website is amazingly frustrating!! beginning to take a little shape now though I think. How was the Java CA? I,m hoping it's reasonably straight forward

siblers · 25-04-2012 1:34pm

Was grand really,
Got asked to enter a sentence, two buttons one was to convert it to uppercase, the other was to display how many characters in the sentence. There is a method to switch between the buttons but I hadn't a clue how to implement. Apart from that it was ok, kinda struggled to fit in anytime to study for it though.

AntiRip · 25-04-2012 1:48pm

siblers wrote: »

Was grand really,
Got asked to enter a sentence, two buttons one was to convert it to uppercase, the other was to display how many characters in the sentence. There is a method to switch between the buttons but I hadn't a clue how to implement. Apart from that it was ok, kinda struggled to fit in anytime to study for it though.

To switch between textfields you have to put an event listener on the one you click. Then I think you type event.getSource() of the textfield and requestFocus() for the next one if that makes since to you?

JFlah · 25-04-2012 2:21pm

AntiRip wrote: »

To switch between textfields you have to put an event listener on the one you click. Then I think you type event.getSource() of the textfield and requestFocus() for the next one if that makes since to you?

yeah it's if(e.getSource() = textField)
otherField.requestFocus(); ..... I think

AntiRip · 25-04-2012 5:03pm

Any of ye have Linux CA today. Heard it was tricky enough..

siblers · 25-04-2012 6:47pm

Had mine on Monday, barely passed the lab CA but done quite well in the written CA. Not bothered with that subject anyway, once I get my mandatory 15% in the final exam i'll have passed it.

siblers · 26-04-2012 6:49pm

I didn't notice I was having this problem till my fecking Web Design class was over. In my style sheets I have this bit of code:

<style type="text/css">
body {background-color:red; }
.......

When I go to the html page that is linked to the stylesheet, it doesn't appear, I've tried it with background-image as well and in the html page i've tried using <body style="..."> and nothing happens either. If ye have any ideas what the problem is?

AntiRip · 26-04-2012 7:21pm

siblers wrote: »

I didn't notice I was having this problem till my fecking Web Design class was over. In my style sheets I have this bit of code:

When I go to the html page that is linked to the stylesheet, it doesn't appear, I've tried it with background-image as well and in the html page i've tried using <body style="..."> and nothing happens either. If ye have any ideas what the problem is?

Do you have the code <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="main.css" /> before the title tags?

JFlah · 26-04-2012 7:25pm

siblers wrote: »

I didn't notice I was having this problem till my fecking Web Design class was over. In my style sheets I have this bit of code:

When I go to the html page that is linked to the stylesheet, it doesn't appear, I've tried it with background-image as well and in the html page i've tried using <body style="..."> and nothing happens either. If ye have any ideas what the problem is?

have you tried the hex value for the colour?
eg body{background-color:#FFFFFF;} and is there some content in the body before you view it?

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