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Learning Proposal

Name: JinJin Tan
Student Number: 10611539

Personal Learning Needs

During the semester of 2008 Autumn, i expect to achieve the studying goals of handling website design and constructing on application level, including coding and design. and the basic languages of designing websites and the experienced skills which would the work more professional, more esay-to-use. I would preferred using HTML and Dreamweamer software as the pathway to achieve my learning purposes; I can imagine that my previous programming subjects can be helpful about this, and doing a complete project in DMT will be fantastic training opportunity for me to go through the website design topic.

SWOT Analysis

Strengths

I am good at requirement analysis and layout structure of website. Through a very short but efficient communication with client, I will be able to clarify the main demand from them and organize their need into structured requiement lists. For implementation, I am familiar with constructing website with the language of HTML advanced, XHTML & XML. Hard working and carefulness are also the positiveness of mine.

Weaknesses

I think the most obvious drawback of mine is being lack of real working experience on relevant topic or projects. The coding part is not my strength as well, so in the stage of implementation, my work could be needing optimization.

Opportunities

Doing this semester and the project included is useful for me in my current and future IT career, as a website designer and network technician.

Threats

The time organizing will be a very treaky and challenged issue i will be facing to in this semester, because i am doing 5 subjects this semester, But anyway i will figure it out and pay my best attention onto the tasks in this subject.

Learning Plan

Objectives

what do I want to learn?

I want to learn how to construct a web based website include all functionalities of online purchasing processes, as well as optimizing codes, and maintanance.

Strategies

how will I do it?

• working on constructing a real based or virtual & completed project of website development.
• go through all the relevant reference, books, journals which include the technical guidelines and support on the technologies and skills i might use when i work.
• related to the fulfillment,familar with the tools such as Dreamware, photoshop,JAVA plat what will be used and propulared.
• Learn about the graphic and digital presentation method of the website designing to achieve a better vision of my design.

Resources

What exactly will I use?

• Dreamweaver, as the main software tool of my design job with HTML language
• Mircrosoft office, includes Access (doing the database relationship construction), Word (Documentation), Excel (Profile and DATA tables) and Power Point (For marketing purposes)
• CorelDraw, Photoshop and InDesign for designing graphic and user-friendly interface
• Internet Explorer 7.0 for testing and resource searching
• A web server and a domain name providing service
• My Laptop as a hardware platform.

Proposed Project Description

1. what will you build? I would like to build an online store of retail shopping. It includes online merchandizing, product categories, shopping cart, online banking and delivery condirmation as well as terms & conditions.

1. who is it for? It is for a company which product skilled products and specialized products, which can be identified as high-cost product, and the main customer stream is sorted as high spending power people on market.
2. what technologies will it use? The language to construct the website will be mainly HTML, XHTML & XML. The software and tools i wll use include: coraldraw, photoshop, Dreamware, access, database CSS HTML and microsoft office applications.
3. how does it satisfy your learning objectives? It will achieve my goals of studying because the website constructing abilities is the main goal of me doing this subject.
4. sketches, wireframes, architecture, diagrams will be clarified when i go through the precess of implementation.

Schedule

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• Week 3 Identify the technologies, languages, tools which will be used in th processes of the project.
• Week 4 PHP and CSS research Build the image database. User graphic tools to build up the visible draft of the website model, to let the clients and customers clarify the main idea of the website.
• Week 5 Start implementation. Design and page layout. Continue working on the database. User dreamweaver to construct the HTML coded pages in layouts.
• Week 6 Continue working on database. User access to identify the tables, schemas, relationships among the classes of the database.
• Week 7 Research about search engine. Construct the limitation of the input data's format for the search engine.
• Week 8 Recruit the tasks from week 5 to week 7.
• Week 9 My SQL usage research and tutorials.
• Week 10 Peer feedback for changes and improvements.
• Week 11 Improvements on project, using customer and end-users' feeback to upgrade the website services.
• Week 12 Test the site for security and mainantance purposes, also check the stabilities of the web services.
• Week 13 Final project summittion.
• Week 14 Presentation about my ideas, my work, and my advise on related industries.

References

• http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_http.asp
• www.w3schools.com.
• http://www.openwebdesign.org/faq/index.php
• Material available from lecture and tutorial
• Online e books