Tom+Donker+Unit+1


 * __Investigation __**
 * __Situation: __**

The situation of this unit is that we have to research the culture about our selected student. And from the research about their culture, we have to see how their culture affects the way they see the environment.


 * __Research: __**


 * __Questionnaire: __**


 * 1) Where do you come from?
 * 2) When and where were you born?
 * 3) Do you have a religion? If so, what is it?
 * 4) Where did you grow up?
 * 5) Where do you call home?
 * 6) What is your favorite food?
 * 7) Where have you lived?
 * 8) What type of music do you like?
 * 9) Is technology a big part of your life?
 * 10) Do you care about the environment?


 * __Answers: __**

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">1. <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">South Africa <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">2. <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I was born in a small town just outside of Cape Town; Paarl. I was born on the 6th August 1999 <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">3. <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I am a Christian (just a normal one, not catholic) <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">4. <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Well, I was born in the Paarl and lived there for 3 years but then moved to Pretoria and lived there for 2 years then moved to Kenya and lived there for 4 years then moved to Malawi and have been here for almost 5 years. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">5. <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">South Africa, Cape Town <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">6. <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Buri roll :) <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">7. <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">South Africa <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">, <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Kenya <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">, <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Malawi <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">8. <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A variety, no specific kind <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">9. <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Yes, I would die without social networking... and texting <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">10. <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Yes, I’m not a tree hugged. I just don’t want the earth to die

<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">After getting back the answers to the questionnaire, I did a little more research to get a better understanding of Emma’s culture.


 * __<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Research from questionnaire: __**


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The culture of South Africa is known for its ethnic and cultural diversity. The South African black majority still has a substantial number of rural inhabitants who lead largely impoverished lives. It is among these people, however, that cultural traditions survive most strongly; as blacks have become increasingly urbanized and Westernized, aspects of traditional culture have declined. Urban blacks usually speak English or Afrikaans in addition to their native tongue. There are smaller but still significant groups of speakers of Khoisan languages, not included in the eleven official languages, but are one of the eight other officially recognized languages. There are small groups of speakers of endangered languages, most of which are from the Khios-San family, that receive no official status; however, some groups within South Africa are attempting to promote their use and revival <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">.

<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[] || <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I researched South African Culture’s because it might relate to Emma’s culture.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Paarl is a town with 191,013 inhabitants in the Western Cape province of South Africa. It’s the third oldest European settlement in the Republic of South Africa (after Cape Town and Stellenbosch) and the largest town in the Cape Winelands.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[] || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I researched Paarl, South Africa just to get a bit more information about where Emma was born.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The cuisine of South Africa is sometimes called "rainbow cuisine", as it has had a variety of multicultural sources and stages.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">South Africa was settled from the seventeenth century onwards by colonists from Portugal, the Netherlands, Germany, France, and the United Kingdom. These colonists brought European cookery styles with them. The Afrikaners have their succulent potjiekos, tamatiebredie (tomato bredie), or stews of lamb and mutton with tomato and onion sauce, with or without rice. There are many European contributions like Dutch fried crueler or koeksister, Malva Pudding and melktert (milk tart). French Hugenots brought wines as well as their traditional recipes.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">During the pioneering days of the 17th century, new foods such as biltong, droëwors (dried sausage) and rusks evolved locally out of necessity.

<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_cuisine#Settler_cookery] || <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I researched the settler’s cuisine of South Africa because Emma is not born in a tribe but in a modern city.


 * __<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Research: __**

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[] :

<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">In class, we looked at a website called Dynamic Drive. This is a that gives you interesting applications, add-on, things to make your website more interesting. For example you can download a simple game from Dynamic Drive and add it into your website. You can also add calenders, clocks, cursors, text animation, and many more <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">accessories to your website.

<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">CSS (Cascading Style Sheet):

<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">CSS helps with the format of the website. If you set one up, it organizes the text, background, font color, ect. so when you apply the CSS sheet to a page, it will automatically changes the page according to the information you put on the CSS sheet. Cascading Style Sheets are very effective because it save a lot of time making the page the same as the one before.

**__<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Design brief: __**
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I am going to make a website about Emma’s culture which includes how her culture affects the way she sees the environment. Using the information that I have gathered, I can then answer the unit question.


 * __<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Website Specifications: __**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Links to other pages
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Pictures
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Unit question
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Unit question answer
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Information (research)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Clear titles
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Easy to read font


 * __<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Testing the website specification: __**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Website Specifications || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Testing ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Links to other pages || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">So that it makes navigating the website easier and ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Pictures || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">It makes the website more interesting, so that younger people won’t get bored and not look at the website. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">References || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">To make sure that you are not plagiarising, and if people want to visit the website you got your information from, they can access it quick and easily. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Unit question || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">So that the people who visit your website have an idea about what the whole website is about. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Unit question answer || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">To show that you have an understanding of the topic and that you actually worked to make the website. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Information (research) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">So that people know what you have done to answer the unit question and get an understanding of how you did the unit. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Clear titles || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">So that it is easy to navigate around the website and easy to read. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Easy to read font || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">To make the whole website readable for the public. ||

**__<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 20pt;">Design Stage __** For the design stage, I made four different designs with 2 different parts to each design: the website layout and the website colour. Each of the four designs are different from the other and have a different colour scheme.

__**Design 1:**__
 * [[image:bmisclass2009/tom donker 9 design 1 colour.JPG width="480" height="362"]][[image:tom donker 9 design 1 layout.JPG width="400" height="301"]] ||
 * Based on the design specifications that I made, this design has all the specifications needed to be a good web page. this design is also easy to create on the computer. The colour scheme is yellow on blue because it makes it easy on the eye. ||

__ **Design 2:** __
 * [[image:tom donker 9 design 2 colour.JPG width="400" height="300"]][[image:tom donker 9 design 2 layout.JPG width="400" height="300"]] ||
 * This design matches the design specifications. This design is particularly easy to create on the computer because most website have this, or a similar layout. the colour scheme for this design is a simple light colour as background and a dark font so, like the other design, its easy on the eye. ||

__ **Design 3:** __
 * [[image:tom donker 9 design 3 colour.JPG width="400" height="300"]][[image:tom donker 9 design 3 layout.JPG width="400" height="301"]] ||
 * This design is quite different to the other designs and to the designs most website have. although this design is different from most, it will be eye catching because it is different. The colour scheme is also very different to most because it is a two tone background. The design also matches the design specifications. ||

__ **Design 4:** __
 * [[image:tom donker 9 design 4 colour.JPG width="400" height="301"]][[image:tom donker 9 design 4 layout.JPG width="432" height="324"]] ||
 * This last design is very different from most web page designs. This design matches my design brief because it has all the things necessary to be a good design. The color scheme for this design is like the one in design 3 but with different colors: light green and dark green. The font color will be red because it will stand out on a green background. ||

I am going to use the layout of design 2. The layout is simple and easy to create. The layout is also easy to follow and it will be easy to navigate around the website. for the color scheme of my website, i am going to use the color scheme from the forth design. I like the two tone green background and with red font, so the font will be easy to read.

__ **Design Similarities:** __

In each design there will be some similarities. For example, the pages, picture, information, ect.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Pages: **


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Pictures: **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">South African flag
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Map of South Africa
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Boerewors roll
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Technology
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Malawi flag
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Cultural pictures
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Picture of Emma


 * **__ Pages __** || **__ On Page __** ||
 * Homepage || The homepage is an introduction to the whole website and it explains what we have been doing for this unit. ||
 * Research || This page will be about all the research I have done + questionnaire about Emma and her culture. ||
 * Emma’s Culture || This page will be about Emma’s questionnaire answer and how I think her culture affect the environment. ||
 * Unit Question || This page will be about the unit question and how I answered it based on my research. ||

Explanation about what we did (explain the design cycle) || Show questionnaire (explain why you chose the questions) ||
 * **__ Page __** || **__ Things on the Page __** ||
 * Homepage || Introduction paragraph (about what the topic is)
 * Research || Explain why you did a questionnaire (how it connects to the unit question)
 * Emma’s Culture || Questionnaire questions + extra research (to show did the work) ||
 * Unit Question || How Emma’s culture affects the environment (unit question) ||

**__ Plan Stage __** There are many links between the whole web page. The homepage has a brief explanation about all the pages therefore it links to all pages. The other pages are also linked together because all the pages explain the whole topic of the unit.
 * __ Links: __**

There are a few different software’s that I have used during the unit. Microsoft Word, Web Expression 4 and Google Chrome (to access the internet for Wikispaces and to do research). For the final creation of the web page, I am going to use Web Expression 4. This software is easy to use and I have used it before so I have some experience.
 * __ Software: __**


 * __ Breakdown on Pages: __**
 * **__ Pages __** || **__ How to Make the Pages __** ||
 * Homepage || * Make a CSS about font color, background, boarders, and table format
 * Add in information
 * Add in pictures ||
 * Research || * Use the CSS
 * Add in information
 * Add in pictures ||
 * Emma’s Culture || * Use the same CSS
 * Add in information
 * Add in pictures ||
 * Unit Question || * Use the CSS again
 * Add in information
 * Add in pictures ||


 * __ Timeline: __**

All these flow charts show what I need to do for each page and they show me how long each task should take.
I have made a few different changes to my design. I am using one layout of a design and one color scheme from another design. I decided to do this because I found that the layout and the color scheme that I chose suited each other better than the original layout I designed.
 * __ Changes: __**

**__ Evaluation __**

In my investigation I included design specifications. Here they are:


 * Links to other pages
 * Pictures
 * Unit question
 * Unit question answer
 * Information (research)
 * Clear titles
 * Easy to read font

My final website has all of these different specifications. It has all the links to the other pages, it has picture, the unit question and my answer, information or research that I found or looked up, clear titles and it has an easy to read font. I made sure that all my different designs had these simple specifications because all these things included make a simple and effective design.

In this unit we had to make a website about a classmate’s culture and how it affects their view of the environment. There were different things we had to do to find out about our classmates culture and from that information, we answer the unit question.

If I were to do this unit again, I would change my plan, make it more detailed about time, recourses and equipment. This would make sure that I finish the unit on time because I had a few issues with this. I would also try to make a few more designs so I can have a wider choice for a better final product. But I am happy with my final product.