A nice, relaxing week

Well, after a nice relaxing week of football manager, it’s back too it next week with two assignments. I have to say not looking forward to getting two assignments even though they are going to be done on different days, but I am looking forward to getting back to work. I don’t feel as apprehensive as I thought I might though the thought of what I got for the first assignment is something that has played on my mind slightly.

With the start of next week fast approaching the thoughts of what will be instore for the next assignments and beyond is something I am looking forward to, especially getting to grips with new software such as Photoshop, although Pagemaker can be quite fun I do find it restricting whereas Photoshop has more depth and more of a fun side too it.

Over the holidays was a chance to have a look for a new sketchbook as my first was filled, and i discovered how hard it is to find them with more than 50 or 80 pages and if it is possible then I have no idea where to look, I went all over but with no luck, I wonder if anybody else has had such an annoying task?

We can at last breathe a sigh of relief

Well here it is, the time has come and deadline day is upon us, surprisingly I don’t feel as worried as I expected, I expected to be running around making sure that everything is complete and ready to go but I feel more in control and happy about the work though in truth it could be better, then again it’s the first assignment and I expect to improve that’s the whole point of coming here to learn.

Wednesday was yet again a work day, having the last few hours to double and triple check the work is a bonus, though no doubt there is a mistake that I have failed to spot, I suppose this will bug me after I get it back as I hope that I have checked everything enough but only time will tell.

Jamie had problems with his CD label as it didn’t match his folder label; I suggested that instead of wasting a CD and a label that he changed his folder design by putting the CD label design into Photoshop and making a new folder label.

Having finally completed everything I sense of relief is starting to spread more than the nerves of making sure that everything was complete in time for the tutorial, never a truer word was spoken when it was said that time only matters when it’s running out, I’ve been fortunate this time as time has been on my side for this assignment though I could have spent my self study time looking more into books and research.

Submission standard, now that's the plan.

Possibly the scariest week of the lot, submission standard work was what was expected and through lack of experience I came up well short of this, it was disappointing as I was certainly able as I have everything that was needed to achieve this including CDs and my submission folder.

The best part of the week was the blog tutorial with John, going over the different parts was really helpful and pointed out the good and bad points of the templates and showed me how I can alter to make it better, this is something that I’m going to look forward to changing as I think learning a little bit more of HTML will only help me in the long term.

The start of the week was a worry as I felt I was falling quite a lot behind most people seemed to have all there assignments in the template and well on the way to finishing then I found that I was more or less with everyone else, though I was happy to get everything in the template I wish I’d paid more attention and I certainly will know what is expected on the next assignment.

Now we are coming to the end of this assignment, I feel because I have tried to get as much knowledge of what is required for the assignments I should be ready for the next one, this is something that I feel happier about than when we started but I’m unsure how different the others are going to be. Also I’m going to look at more research into books, this is going to be my main target as I felt I relied on the internet a little too much for this assignment, in future the library will be one of the first port of calls.

Feedback is something that I always try and get from my peers and Julian obliged with my work in the template as others always seem to find something that’s missing or incorrect, I find this really useful and although there were problems and I was a little disappointed I knew beforehand that I would have to print the whole thing out again.

Bring on next week when submission standard better be where it’s at or else.

Do it for me Pagemaker.

A different week this week, no lectures or Study skills lesson. I found being able to sit down and get on with designing my templates useful as it was the first time that we’ve had a full day to concentrate on full on work.

The highlight of my week was getting numerous amounts of feedback from various members of the group about my template designs I feel I took a lot of this information in even though I don’t take criticism all that well, the terrible colours used on my first idea, the structure and setup of the various features all made me think more about how to get the most out of my design which I still don’t believe is good.

I really feel I could have done so much more on my designs and tried to get more ideas from different websites. I know in future that looking at different designs will be much more beneficial.

The not so much low point but hardest point was trying to insert my work into the template, this really is an awkward part of the assignment, much more than just copy and paste. There’s not much more in the future that can be done to make this task any more entertaining, perhaps trying to get little bits inserted at a time won’t get me as stressed.

Not looking forward to next week too much though I do feel I’m in a position to make sure I’m ready for whatever may be thrown up, I’m sure that I will have everything for the tutorial ready and won’t be rushing round to get it all ready.