New Draft of logo

I had always intended to change the logo as it was somewhat bland before, especially with regards to the font used etc. here's the latest ----------->

Monday morning blues...

After a bit of a panic when thinking about looming dates I decided to take full advantage of my time with Pat this week so that I could have a proper discussion about the direction my project was going. Although I had a good idea of where I wanted to be, it was proving difficult to manage my time effectively in order to get to a stage where I would be happy with what I would have to show at the prototype presentation which is now only three weeks away.

After a lengthy debate (and frustration on both parts!) we seem to have come up with a good plan to see me through the next few weeks which will hopefully see the skeleton of my project come together. Pat has asked me to keep working on my designs so that they don't all pile up so I'm planning to spend a few hours a week for the next while making new flyers, doing a bit of photography and video and stuff I am actually looking forward to doing!

I also must build the basis for my website so that I can add the functionality to it for the presentation. At the moment for this, I'll be worrying about getting it working before I get too bogged down with the look of the site.

Also, Pat has asked for a demo of the touchscreen in action so that she can critique the look of the application before I go any further. So much to do :(

Woops!

Forgot to mention that i will be using my 'log in' and 'create new user' from my java practicals for the user login and registration. Both of these functions are working perfectly for my practical so I'll be implementing these functions in the coming days.

Hard at work...

I am currently working on the generating the xml file for my project. as all data is fed into the viewer via xml, the idea is to allow users to log on to the system and upload their information.

Currently, I have a working html page which takes in the title, description, link url and image from the user. The code then generates an xml output identical to the xml that is needed to feed into the application. My next goal is to get the xml output to save to an external xml file named gallery.xml. Then the first major programming milestaone will be complete.

Didn't think I'd ever get to say that!Things are finally starting to come together in my head....

Not enough hours in the day!

Most of my time at the moment is being taken up with projects for other subjects so my allocated project time has taken a bit of a hit. My java assignment (worth 20% of the year) is due next week and I'm having terrible trouble with it so have had to spend extra time on it. Not the nicest experience of my life so I'm looking forward to having it finished so i can forget about it. The frustration is overwhelming! Next week I plan to make up the extra hours as I'll have most of the big projects that I have hanging over me in by then. Also today I handed up my final project proposal as requested by Pat. One tick off the list at least!

I can see the light...

I've given up on java for the moment as Liz has given me some good advice on how to go about starting the fuctionality using actionscript. I must say it was a pleasant suprise as I'm much more comfortable programming in Flash. There's loads of stuff available to read in the Flash help file so i'll be busy reading for the next few days!

Back with a bang...

It's college time again. Ive spent the holidays designing more flyers and trying to find out what needs to be done to get the technical side of the project off the ground. I'm sorry to say I've not had much luck with it. Liz advised me to fill the xml file externally using java. I've had a look on the internet and can't find any code to get me started. I've found a couple of forums where people have asked how to do it but none of the posts had any replies :( I'll keep you posted on my developments...