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JFlah · 03-05-2012 10:43pm

siblers wrote: »

Oh god this web design is out of control. Been working on it today from 10am to 10pm, god help the crowd who only decided to start it this week.

Definitely .. if you have'nt a lot/most of the work done already I'd imagine you,re f***ed to be honest . Finally beginning to think mine is not too bad, spent so long at it I hope I get a decent mark, every single thing validates so I'm very happy about that ... still will be at it till the bitter end!

Good luck with it everyone!

siblers · 03-05-2012 10:59pm

JFlah wrote: »

Definitely .. if you have'nt a lot/most of the work done already I'd imagine you,re f***ed to be honest . Finally beginning to think mine is not too bad, spent so long at it I hope I get a decent mark, every single thing validates so I'm very happy about that ... still will be at it till the bitter end!

Good luck with it everyone!

Same here, just need to sort the menu buttons and finalise a few font colours and that's pretty much it. Be interesting to see what the best website looks like.

JFlah · 03-05-2012 11:03pm

siblers wrote: »

Same here, just need to sort the menu buttons and finalise a few font colours and that's pretty much it. Be interesting to see what the best website looks like.

saw some fantastic ones today , I reckon though simple and functional is what they want , will be interesting to see though

siblers · 05-05-2012 4:20pm

When I put this into one of my pages

<div class="menu-buttons1"><h1 class="menu-buttons-text"><a href="home.html" class="nav"</a> Home</h1></div>

It turns any content I have inside a H1 tag into a link, how do I avoid this? Completley confused by this

AntiRip · 05-05-2012 4:53pm

What I did to solve this was something like this:

If I had sky content and saorview content but wanted different attributes for h1 I'd put this into my stylesheet:-

.skydiv h1{
font-size:1em;
}

.saorviewdiv h1 {
font-size:2em;
}

Now when you have

<div class="skydiv">
<h1>Heading</h1>
</div>
and

<div class="skydiv">
<h1>Heading</h1>
</div>

Each H1 now has a different attribute. Let me know if you need anymore help.

AntiRip · 05-05-2012 4:57pm

Also in case you don't have it done, I'd strongly advise putting your nav icons/text/buttons into an unordered list <ul><li>. In the stylesheet you can then display them as block and give them attributes like height,weight and background colour. You may have this done already but just in case.

siblers · 05-05-2012 5:22pm

Deadly, thanks for that.

AntiRip · 05-05-2012 5:28pm

siblers wrote: »

Deadly, thanks for that.

No bother. You must be finished it now? It's a massive project but I suppose there is 70% going for it. I handed mine up last week. I just wanted the projects out of the way this weekend and next week as the exams are way to close.

siblers · 05-05-2012 6:15pm

AntiRip wrote: »

No bother. You must be finished it now? It's a massive project but I suppose there is 70% going for it. I handed mine up last week. I just wanted the projects out of the way this weekend and next week as the exams are way to close.

Pretty much, just need to sort the internal links and change around the <h> tags that's pertty much it.

Out of curiosity did you use all the images supplied? Initially I used them all but found it made the website look worse and ditched a share of them.

AntiRip · 05-05-2012 6:27pm

siblers wrote: »

Pretty much, just need to sort the internal links and change around the <h> tags that's pertty much it.

Out of curiosity did you use all the images supplied? Initially I used them all but found it made the website look worse and ditched a share of them.

No didn't use all the images, way too many especially the grundig etc one. U'd only be throwing them altogether just for sake of it. Just have 4 nice looking pages with same theme, easy navigation and good code you'll be fine I say. At the end of the day, it's a test on how well you can code and apply it.

JFlah · 05-05-2012 7:55pm

AntiRip wrote: »

No didn't use all the images, way too many especially the grundig etc one. U'd only be throwing them altogether just for sake of it. Just have 4 nice looking pages with same theme, easy navigation and good code you'll be fine I say. At the end of the day, it's a test on how well you can code and apply it.

No definitely using just some of the images is much better , any decent site i,ve seen for small businesses I've found that the less is more approach works really well. Try to have plenty white space it is very effective and professional looking. Generally it seems people have put huge effort into this , hopefully results will reflect it, the bulk of the marks are for CSS styling and coding so no matter what the page looks like if the code is good the mark should be.

siblers · 09-05-2012 12:41pm

Felt strange last night coming home and not havin to sit in front of the laptop for 3/4 hours working on webdesign. Didn't know what to do with myself. Trying to study for operating systems is awfully boring, some of the questions are pretty tough as well, especially memory management.

AntiRip · 09-05-2012 6:22pm

siblers wrote: »

Felt strange last night coming home and not havin to sit in front of the laptop for 3/4 hours working on webdesign. Didn't know what to do with myself. Trying to study for operating systems is awfully boring, some of the questions are pretty tough as well, especially memory management.

I hope Memory Management is a separate Q3 again this year and Process Management is on it's own. Too much theory in the Process Management with different states of processes, I/0 interrupts, etc.

Memory Management is not a bad question, it will more than likely be about Paging (like 2009,2010,2011). CPU Scheduling is nice also with Gantt charts. Linux is also basically the same each year also.

Trying to get used of writing out Java, takes abit of getting used to. Also the short hand although quicker makes it a little harder as you have p s v m S(a[]) and JOPsMD(null,etc).

Best of luck anyways

siblers · 09-05-2012 7:41pm

AntiRip wrote: »

I hope Memory Management is a separate Q3 again this year and Process Management is on it's own. Too much theory in the Process Management with different states of processes, I/0 interrupts, etc.

Memory Management is not a bad question, it will more than likely be about Paging (like 2009,2010,2011). CPU Scheduling is nice also with Gantt charts. Linux is also basically the same each year also.

Trying to get used of writing out Java, takes abit of getting used to. Also the short hand although quicker makes it a little harder as you have p s v m S(a[]) and JOPsMD(null,etc).

Best of luck anyways

Yeah CPU scheduling is fairly handy and the linux question is grand too. If Process Management is a question in itself the exam will be grand, struggling to answer the questions based on it even with the notes.

Not done anything with Java but have plenty of time before thursday week.

Encrypted Pigeon · 14-05-2012 9:58pm

And another semester bites the dust \o/

Hope the exams are going well for ye all.

JFlah · 15-05-2012 5:57pm

Sintel wrote: »

And another semester bites the dust \o/

Hope the exams are going well for ye all.

Roll on OOP1

siblers · 16-05-2012 1:57pm

Sintel wrote: »

And another semester bites the dust \o/

Hope the exams are going well for ye all.

Nice! Operating Systems exam paper was very handy compared to other years, so was please with that. Found it impossible trying to retain any information when studying for it.

Any idea when the results are out?

Encrypted Pigeon · 16-05-2012 1:59pm

Had big problems trying to learn the OS stuff too

would not stick. Results will be online on the 8th of June.

AntiRip · 16-05-2012 3:06pm

siblers wrote: »

Nice! Operating Systems exam paper was very handy compared to other years, so was please with that. Found it impossible trying to retain any information when studying for it.

Any idea when the results are out?

I'm hoping Q2 on OOP1 isn't a killer like last year!. Will do Q1 then Q3(GUIs) and attempt Q2 for the last hour hopefully. Q2 can be damn tricky on paper with the looping. We'll be in the thick of it this time tomorrow anyway :pac:

siblers · 16-05-2012 3:23pm

AntiRip wrote: »

I'm hoping Q2 on OOP1 isn't a killer like last year!. Will do Q1 then Q3(GUIs) and attempt Q2 for the last hour hopefully. Q2 can be damn tricky on paper with the looping. We'll be in the thick of it this time tomorrow anyway :pac:

Im the same really, just trying to remember all the bits for the GUI. Not overly gone on question 2 really, rather go in knowing the structure of the GUI and not having to worry about the minefield that is question 2.

JFlah · 16-05-2012 5:30pm

AntiRip wrote: »

I'm hoping Q2 on OOP1 isn't a killer like last year!. Will do Q1 then Q3(GUIs) and attempt Q2 for the last hour hopefully. Q2 can be damn tricky on paper with the looping. We'll be in the thick of it this time tomorrow anyway :pac:

probably too late now but if you have a good grasp of the stuff Q4 is always fairly do-able , loops and validation on paper scares the bejasus out of me!! don,t really need to worry though if I do Q1 and Q3 well

Opinicus · 17-05-2012 2:54am

Was studying PL/SQL all tuesday for my Adv DB Prog exam today. Decided to check what seat I was last night, and realised it was actually WAN Services & Security that I had, DB Prog is on Friday. :mad: I R RETARD

**** Sake. Did enough to pass anyway I think.

AntiRip · 17-05-2012 11:15am

Opinicus wrote: »

Was studying PL/SQL all tuesday for my Adv DB Prog exam today. Decided to check what seat I was last night, and realised it was actually WAN Services & Security that I had, DB Prog is on Friday. :mad: I R RETARD

**** Sake. Did enough to pass anyway I think.

Jesus, that would be a shock to the system alright! Best of luck anyway

Opinicus · 17-05-2012 12:06pm

AntiRip wrote: »

Jesus, that would be a shock to the system alright! Best of luck anyway

Already did it Wednesday

I probably already had it passed through CA anyway, but I was looking for a nice grade. Won't happen now. :pac:

AntiRip · 17-05-2012 12:11pm

Opinicus wrote: »

Already did it Wednesday I probably already had it passed through CA anyway, but I was looking for a nice grade. Won't happen now. :pac:

A pass is a pass and trust me in a couple years you won't even remember what grades you got just the qualification

AntiRip · 17-05-2012 5:20pm

That was a tough one to end with! Q1 and Q3 were good but Q2 was very tricky altogether. 4 months now to let it sink in

siblers · 17-05-2012 6:15pm

I was completley stumped by question 3, question 2 a did about a third of it but ran out of time. I would have known how to do question 2 but i didn't even bother revising that question and couldn't remember it properly. Give it a bash in a hope to pick up whatever few marks I could. Banking on question one to see me home but looking dodgy enough.

Was studying PL/SQL all tuesday for my Adv DB Prog exam today. Decided to check what seat I was last night, and realised it was actually WAN Services & Security that I had, DB Prog is on Friday. I R RETARD

**** Sake. Did enough to pass anyway I think.

Sickener but an easy enough mistake to make in all honesty

JFlah · 17-05-2012 9:26pm

siblers wrote: »

I was completley stumped by question 3, question 2 a did about a third of it but ran out of time. I would have known how to do question 2 but i didn't even bother revising that question and couldn't remember it properly. Give it a bash in a hope to pick up whatever few marks I could. Banking on question one to see me home but looking dodgy enough.

Sickener but an easy enough mistake to make in all honesty

was happy with oop1 Q1 and Q3 were fair enough and thank god I did labs 15/16 Q4 was great , coz Q2 looked like a right sticky one on paper, maybe ok on pc but not on paper!

hopeful it went well anyway, and for everyone else too

AntiRip · 17-05-2012 11:51pm

JFlah wrote: »

was happy with oop1 Q1 and Q3 were fair enough and thank god I did labs 15/16 Q4 was great , coz Q2 looked like a right sticky one on paper, maybe ok on pc but not on paper!

hopeful it went well anyway, and for everyone else too

Wished I had looked at lab15 and lab16 now. Took a big gamble on Q2 and didn't really prepare for it fully. If I get 50 marks for Q1 and Q3 which I should, I'll have 75% overall but still abit disappointed I didn't do as good as I should have. Will definitely not make that mistake again.

Encrypted Pigeon · 07-06-2012 5:05pm

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