Christmas is Coming

Time is drawing near now to the end of my second assignment. I thought I was really behind until I looked around and found that some of my peers were in the same boat.

Wednesday was very welcome as it allowed me time to finally complete the tedious task of editing my content as my word count was above 5000. I should have realised this sooner after multiplying 75 by the number of sub categories we have and found that it came to nearly 3000, which left less than 1500 words to complete the rest.

After mentioning this to some of the others at lunchtime, it seemed to register with them also and no doubt a few went back in the afternoon and quickly checked their content. I managed to edit it quite well and put all my references in and finished with about an hour to spare.

I had a few questions for Steve which all seem to be answered quite quickly. By this time next week it will be too late to rectify it. I do know that I have learnt from my mistakes from the last assignment and altered the way I work dramatically and Im sure I have included only the required/relevant material. Only the word count limit has held me back but I understand it's there for a reason.

I feel my design is just the way I had planned and I'm more than pleased with the colour scheme for this particular project as I did a bit of research into colour, got ideas from other sources and used my competetive analysis to bring me to my chosen colours for my design. The talk we had about colour the other week seems to have scared people into using only one or two colours with variations in tint seperating them.

Thats now my next job, to make my design in pagemaker which is proving very frustrating with it's lack of features and abilities. It does seem a waste of time making it in this programme as font point size and the fact that high resolution images have to be used with no way of automatic resizing. However, this is what is required to use and this is how I will do it.

I can only look forward to creating this website in the new year as like my Eric Morecambe Website Plan seems a shame not to put it on the web for all to see.