Monday 30th October - Friday 3rd November - Industry Brief

On Monday 23rd we were given our Dreamweaver briefs from industry. The idea was for us to build upon the dreamweaver training we had from steve fones the previous week. My patner for the brief was Gareth and the brif we were given was from Sequence, a large company who have done quite alot of Dr Who work for the bbc. The brief we were set is for a tourism website promoting Cardiff Bay, it seemed like a fairly dull brief , but also hard to get too wrong and considering this is our first real brief i would prefer to something simle but well done rather than a half finished site with nothing actually working.

We also have to finish our interacive media mock ups. I chose to do a flash game based on "whats the time mr wolf" the classic play ground game, i thought it would be easy to link it too an educational element. There are not many telling the time games for chilldren and i think its an important skill (analogue watches look much better than digital watches).

The first week was mainly planning and discussing what the client (sequence) actually wanted, the brief was fairly self explanitory but we didnt want to assume anything or limit our options later on. To start with it was hard going, The more we discused the brief the larger it became and i was worried we wouldnt have time to include everything we wanted to. Also, i had no experience of back End systems and althought i had heard of a content management system and didnt know how much work it would take and asumed it was beyond the scope of this progect. Gareth however was adimant it would work and as he had experience at writing back end systems i had to trust him. If it worked it would be great, but when you are used to working on your own you know what you are capable of and can therefore plan much easier.

With this project i large problem for me was the fact that i didnt know how long it would take me to write the XHTL and CSS, I had used both before but never so intensively to a strict brief.TBC...