JinJin-DMT@UTS

last week

2008-05-27T01:12:00.000-07:00

finally. i have done my website. while, during this process of designing and learning, i do learn some.
today, i went to university to connect ftp database. but, it takes me a while. i made a mistake, seems i am so stupid. i set up my database in my pc. when i in uni, i just forgot to rename my database file.....
while, at last ,i made it right...

week11

2008-05-21T00:36:00.000-07:00

i am still working on my website design.
while, it is not really easy for me. i meet lots of difficulties.
....

week10

2008-05-13T01:35:00.000-07:00

i received feedback from my group member. it is not too bad.
and i still had lots problem need to solve.
nowadays i am working no connecting to my database.
here is the feedback:
1. Clear picture of users (eg personas, use cases, scenarios, sketches)

Rating: ****

From Jin Jin's explanation, I can understand the users scope of her system. And the functions that it provides to the users are enough fot them to make online shopping. But a search engine is probably needed

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2. Exterior documentation (eg mockups, wireframes, screenshots)

Rating: ****

The sample pages of the website are good. They got good layout. And all the functions are nested reasonable.

3. Interior documentation (eg technologies, architecture, data flow)

Rating: ***

Jin Jin does not explain interior data flow very well. I could not fully understand this. Probably need more details.

4. Planning (eg phasing, scoping, timetables, schedule)

Rating: ****

Base on Jin Jin's schedule as well as the work that she has finished, I beleive Jin Jin will complete this project on time.

GENERAL COMMENTS

Jin Jin has done good job. The functions and the layout of her website are nice. I suggest more work need to be done on Interior documentation and working out a search engine for customer to locate their
interested commodities.

the letter form Alastair

2008-05-04T23:02:00.000-07:00

Hi JinJin

Here is my feedback on your report - I'll put it on the discussion
board too:

This looks much better - well done.
I think you might be confusing CSS (cascading style sheets) and RSS
(really simple syndication). Near the top of the report you say that
CSS is for 'broadcasting the latest updates...' - but I think you
really mean RSS. You've got it right in the CSS section below though.
You've referred to Andrew Trebac, from 2002 - I think that's a bit
old, it would be good to find a newer reference for that section of
the report. The full reference isn't at the bottom of the page so I
can't check it out, but from what you've written I think what he said
is a little bit out of date now.
You've put a few references at the bottom of the page, and you also
indicated some places in the text where you were referring to other
material. It's VERY important if you are actually quoting from
another source to indicate who you are quoting and exactly which
phrases or sentences are quoted - use italics or quotation marks to
do this and cite the author in brackets at the end of the quote. It
looks like there are a couple of places in the text where you have
forgotten to do this. You should double check and BE SURE to fix
anything that needs fixing before handing in the final version at the
end of the semester.
When you talk about "XML for website decoration" at the top of the
page do you mean Flex or something like that? In the XML section
below, you talk about normal XML, which is fine, but if you want to
include this then you need to say a bit more about how you will be
using it in your project- I'm not quite sure how it fits in.
The HTML section looks good, mostly these days we try to use XHTML,
which is just slightly different. I think the text would still be OK
if you just changed HTML to XHTML unless you have a special reason
for using HTML - in which case you need to explain your decision.
In the XML-micro, MySQL-micro, and CSS-Micro - the headings should be
XML-macro, MySQL-macro, CSS-Macro. The following section which is
about all three looks more like the micro analysis about how the
technologies apply to your particular project.
You've obviously done a lot of work on the updated report and it's
looking much better-well done. I hope this is some help and look
forward to seeing the final version of the report and the website at
the end of the semester.
Let me know if you need any more help.

regards

Alastair

firstly, thanks for Alastair comment. referring to the new problem . i will figure out. i will compare HTML with XHTML with the process of my study.
relating to the reference issues. i will pay more attentions. ...

thanks again.
jinjin

system plan

2008-05-04T22:59:00.000-07:00

System Plan

Name: JinJin Tan
Student Number: 10611539

User of this system
My website is focus on the online electrical applications retail store. The purpose of? my object is to develop an online order and purchasing platform for customer on the internet to track up the price, stock status, specification and the product comparison among the on-shelf products, and let them complete online ordering and payment. Moreover, my website will cover several basic functional pages which include home. Register, product cataloger, order. Therefore, the customers could be anyone who is interested in my on sale products. ?Beside the customers, myself as the administrator could use my website to have ?rang of manage operation such as update, routine check, maintenance, as well as upgrade and so on.

User’s activities
The users of my website have two statuses. One is the guest and another is on registered status.

Customers:

Guest- blows website, checking out products, track up the price, stock status
Registered- when the users register into my website, they provide their personal information. Consequently, users create their own accounts and login my website as well as they are allowed order, purchase, and payment for the commodities.

Administrator:

Checking out the email from customers. Answering customers’ questions. Updating the catalogue of commodities. Maintaining website. Tracking up the commodity delivery processes.

The Flowchart of Customers Purchasing Products

Site Map

The major screens of My Website

Due to I am still working on my website. The following major screens are the draft version.

Home page:

Figue1.
This is the template for my home page, basically, it contains the sub-pages like product categories, price list, warranty terms and contacts us.

Login page:

Figue2.

This page is for the customers who already have their account on my website. When they open my website they could log into the existing account, this simple page shows the general user name and password. However, I will build the register page for creating customers account before the login activity. ??

Catalog Page

Figue3.
This page for general introducing the products. Providing the products’ picture, name and the sale price.

Product Page:

Figue4.

The purpose of this page is that introduce the details of each product. The customer would add this target product into their shopping cart. In this page should the link to the customers’ shopping cart page. However, this page’s functions are still in the process of constructing.

Architecture:

Schedule:

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.

Technology Micro and Macro analysis

2008-04-09T03:47:00.000-07:00

Technology Micro and Macro analysis

According to the final consideration and the last submitted DMT learning proposal, the technologies that I have chosen to achieve the study goals of this subject will be including:

l HTML, XML for website construction (major choice)

l ASP

l CSS

l MySQL

MICRO

1. How does it fit with the other technologies you have chosen?

As the main technology is HTML (Hypertext Makeup language) that I have chosen, there are extremely relevant relationship amount the other chosen technologies. HTML is a very common used technology in the area of website construction as well as design. All scripting component and database management with ASP and SQL relatives are able to attached and linked with a HTML based website. Plus, CSS is the most direct pathway to achieve web-based information and news broadcasting.

2. What kind of technology it is?

HTML is a kind of web-based makeup language of web pages. It provides a description of the text-based information in a document to be posted on web by denoting certain text as links, headings, paragraphs, etc. It is able to supply text with interactive forms and embedded images and other objects. HTML also is able to be written in the forms of tags, surrounded by angel brackets. It is very popular to use HTML to describe the appearance and sementics of a document and Javascript which can affect the outcome and behavior for web browsers and other processors.

3. Why is it suitable for the task you are using it for?

HTML is suitable for achieving the studying goals of handling website design and constructing on application level, including coding and design. The basic languages of designing websites and the experienced skills will make the work more professional, more easy-to-use. HTML is the most popular language of website design in current market, and it is object-oriented that being able to construct website which being broken down by functionalities and categories.

4. What qualities of the technology itself make it suitable for the task?

HTML output would result in full round trip of all the content and formatting in your document. The webpage feature is all about representing what we can in a clean way without any special action/decision point on the part of the post author. The representation of information through HTML-based webpage should be clear, organized, easy-accessed and adapted by common explorer tools.

5. Is it a good match for your skills and needs?

Yes it is. Learning DMT subject with the practical implementation for HTML is actually a process of going through a step-by-step process for finding new web construction requirement and difficulties, it helps me to clarify the industrial information on web which is good for my career future.

6. What place does it occupy in the architecture of your proposed system?

The technologies that I have chosen cover that area of the design, construction, implementation and maintenance of my work on the project. During the life cycle of my project in this subject, the technologies I have selected are the main accomplishment tools to achieve the goals in my proposal.

MACRO

1. Is the technology proprietary or open source?

The technologies that I have chosen are mostly open source technologies. Including HTML, ASP and SQL language, the technologies included in this project are all share technologies and opened for general users.

2. Is it a standard or based on a standard for some kind?

HMTL itself is not a standardized tool, but it is based on its programming and coding grammars as a language. In the aspect of using or implementing, it is based on the standard of its language roles.

3. How good is the community or commercial support for the technology?

Firstly, using HTML to construct website is basically the lowest cost project in the scope of website design, because HTML is the most basic and common web language. For learning and practicing purposes, as HTML is open source tools, it does not cost any budget for soft version, the only thing that the designer need to prepare is the computer. For commercial aspect, even HTML as a free technology is able to build up profitable website for online order, which is very considerable.

4. Does it support the development of assessable systems?

Actually, accessibility for HTML in the process of constructing stages is the weakness of HTML. As HTML scripts and profiles have been uploaded on to server, everyone is able to access the public context on through the domain name by internet explorer. If it is in the middle of designing, all the incomplete components are not prepared to be presented in front of web users; this means there is no support for development for just HTML. The whole website should be uploaded into server after it is finally finished.

5. Does it support multi-language user and other kinds of internationalization?

Yes of course. Although it is not advisable to implement more than one language by HTML in one webpage, but it is definitely no problem about having multi-language access and editing of short text, linking, vice versa, attachment, etc in English and other more than 130 language in common global environment via internet. Technically, users would need to user a character encoding that support both or all language the user want to see, or use special techniques such as character references, anyway this requirement is all acceptable in all kind of commercial and open-sourced web explorer.

6. How does it fit into the architecture of the web?

Basically, the architecture of the web can be categorized into different webpage to implement specific functionalities and information accessing for different purposes. HTML is supportive for contributing separated functionalities into parted WebPages, and the relationship of accessing with mouse motions via dynamic linking. Using HTML is a good way to construct branched website structure and its hyper links inside of the pages. As long as all the linked pages are in the same server of the main page, the accessibilities of the whole website will be completely working well.

7. Who uses it and what for? What is the market for the technology like?

The people who use HTML can be called web designer, in general concept. As long as the client sides have requirement of website designing and construction need, people will be asked to design the layouts. About the market: because HTML and its related technologies are open sources, the market of them will be the design and programming techniques and skills of using them and developing website in terms of design ideas and knowledge. The salary would be paying for the people’s spirits of technical design abilities and understanding of end-customer requirement.

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08/Apr/08

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uploadig final learning proposal

2008-04-01T00:36:00.000-07:00

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

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.

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.
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.
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.
sketches, wireframes, architecture, diagrams will be clarified when i go through the precess of implementation.

Schedule

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

draft learning proposal

2008-03-31T05:05:00.000-07:00

Learning Proposal
Name: JinJin Tan Student Number: 10611539
Personal Learning Needs
the basic languages of creating website as well as the design skills which would make website nice.
SWOT Analysis
Strengths
according to the pervious study, i may good at requirement anylise and structure website.
Weaknesses
skills of design, technology knowledge as well as database interaction.
Opportunities
Developing a personal skills during assgement and project practice by this subjetc .
Threats
wanting be a really good programmer to be one of big company staff.

Learning Needs in DMT
first, design idea which can creating nice and founcation website.
secondly, program skills relate to website
Learning Plan
Objectives
what do I want to learn?
the flow of how to creat website and language.
Strategies
how will I do it?
working on basic website, knowledge how is works.
researching referencs and materials
related to the fulfillment,familar with the tools such as Dreamware, photoshop,JAVA plat what will be used and propulared.
Resources
What exactly will I use?
batabase connecting, images, flash things...
books from library
internet and other relevent research
website as example
Proposed Project Description
what will you build? maybe my own online sales webpage
who is it for? myself
what technologies will it use? photoshop, Dreamware, database CSS HTML...
how does it satisfy your learning objectives? achieve my goals of studying
sketches, wireframes, architecture, diagrams etc... maybe ....still thinking.
Schedule
Week 3 Research about what technologies that will be used.
Week 4 PHP and CSS research Build the image database.
Week 5 Design and page layout. Continue working on the database.
Week 6 Continue working on database.
Week 7 Research about search engine.
Week 8 Research, tutorials and design.
Week 9 My SQL usage research and tutorials.
Week 10 Peer feedback for changes and improvements.
Week 11 Improvements on project.
Week 12 Test the site.
Week 13 Last adjustments.
Week 14 Presentation.
understructrue
References
www.w3schools.com
understructure...

first blog

2008-03-04T03:08:00.000-08:00

so existing that i had my blog......

Dear all classmates,
I am JinJin Tan( Carrie), a Chinese girl doing my thrid semester of MIT. As most international students here , i am full time student. For this semester, i am doing 5subjects, i knew it is crazy for that, but still i will try i best. I am so pleasure could study with you guys of this subjects and can move on together.
well,today is my first class of DIMT. I am so exciting that i do interested about CSS, HTML,AJAX and PHP these stuffs.
cheers
Carrie ^-^*.....
What attracts you about Digital Media Technologies and Interactive Multimedia?basically, i wanna be a web site designer and take this as my futher career.
What constitutes “success” for you in this subject? Be able to achieve objectives and can creat myself website things about all of myself .What do you feel are your personal strengths?
i have done subject internet programming. i can say what language is strengths to me. while i have general ideal about Java, PHP, HTML,Java script......and C
What do you feel you need to improve upon, or would like to develop?
CSS, XHTM, AJAX, Flash and PHP; Also I want to improve my image editing and what makes web-sites work smoothly and attractively. and Java
What are the opportunities you see for yourself in learning and applying knowledge and skills in your technical area of interest? What, if know, are your learning objectives?i think the assignment of this subject will be big opportunitiy for me to improve my skills.
i hope i am able to achieve a new website of ebusiness.
What, if any, are the potential threats, challenges or obstacles you feel you might face in achieving your objectives? part time working, doing 5 subjects. thus,time which is my biggest promble. however i will figure out....i will spent most of social time on study.
Describe any production, design or technical skills or experience you have with digital media technologies OR give us a brief description of your background and experience. to be frank, i have done one website about online ticket booking which is assignment of IP.Post a URL that tells the group something about your area of interest in digital media technologies. It can be a resource website or an example of an interesting or innovative use of web technologies. Why have you chosen to share this particular URL with the group?
http://www.ebay.com/
i like be e-business person, can make money @home...
Tell us about a technology topic, area or issue you feel passionate about? What would be the three most important points about this you feel you must convey to the group?
i am crazy about business thing....i wanna own my business one day. base on my major, in my opinion, build up my business base on internet is the best way for me. through this subject would able to help me to creat my business website.......
summary up, interface web design, language be used and founcation are the three important points for me.