Emma Rothery

It’s come to the time when I have to commit to my final screen designs. Although I’ve had plenty of ideas, and even a vision in my mind of what I wanted to achieve, I’ve struggled to turn this into something on screen, that I want to be my portfolio. Not for the want of [...]

I’ve moved on to designing  my portfolio website this week. I’m going to use the journal  to show my ideas develop and hopefully to gain feedback, so if you have any comments, please let me know what you think. I started by creating a mind map, of the things I want to include and the [...]

Having completed the first stage of research last week, I am now moving on to look at the delivery requirements of the site and a competitive analysis of some other portfolio websites. Delivery Requirements There are a number of delivery requirements which I will set and adhere to: The website will use the following languages: [...]

Now nearing the end of the course, it’s time to produce my portfolio and plan for my end of year presentation. Before designing and building the website, there are a number of stages I will go through first; the first being the consideration of the aims of the project, and the target audience. Project Goals [...]

I will evaluate and reflect on the success of the learning plan, and identify whether or not I did what I set out to. I set out to investigate the limitations and capabilities of PHP, learn introductory PHP 5 and MySQL 5, complete a web design brief, and evaluate the process. I began with the [...]

I’m pleased to be writing this journal entry having finished the build the met the requirements of the creative brief. I now have to evaluate my work and prepare for the presentation, but it feels like a huge weight off my shoulders having the Radio Society website complete. I began the week by finishing off [...]

It’s a huge relief to be able to say that I’ve got the problems I was having last week resolved. First of all this week I set out to get the login feature working and with the success of this, implemented the logout feature. Taking into account all of the hours I had spent on [...]

I’ve got to admit I’ve found this week really hard and at times have wanted to give up. I began the week by quickly completing the last of my learning, covering a validating contact form, sending email, security methods and regular expressions. I chose those topics either because they weren’t covered in the Sitepoint book, [...]

I have progressed quite rapidly once again and completed reading the book I’ve been using at the beginning of the week. To back up and consolidate this learning I quickly covered all of the W3Schools online tutorials as set out in my learning plan and have identified the areas I will cover in my second [...]

Since my journal entry last week I have progressed quite rapidly with my learning and have now completed up to the end of chapter 8. In brief, chapter 4 taught me how to connect to a database with PHP and how to publish MySQL data on the internet. Including; SQL queries in PHP – creating [...]