Gloria+Dzanjalimodzi+Unit+1

Unit 1

__Task 2 Investigation 10/9/2012 __

__Design Brief __

To solve this problem I have decided that my website is going to contain information and pictures that show and tell what we can do to help the world. My website is going to have different pages on different topics of how some things are harming the environment based on my classmate’s culture respectively.

__Product Specification __

My product is a website that is going to help inform people of how to help the environment.

These are the following pages I am going to choose from or include on my website.

__A Homepage __

This page is going to explain what the sight is about, why it was and links to the different pages.

__How does my classmates’ culture affect the environment? __

This page is going to explain the effects of my classmates’ culture good and bad.

__What’s so bad? __

This page just explains what is wrong with the environment because of certain actions.

__Why should we help? __

This page just shows examples of why we should help our environment and possibly how my classmates’ culture ties into it.

__How can we help? __

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">This page is going to explain to its viewers on how they can help with saving our environment and what my classmates’ culture helps the environment in certain ways.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">For my product to be successful I need to make sure…


 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">It is clear and uncomplicated to read.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">It can easily be followed by MOST people.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">The information is relevant and actually helps.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">It is well designed and not too conjested.

__<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">Explanation __

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">The way that someone is raised affects the way they see the world; and how they see the world affects they approach issues. People need to know how to take care of the earth to preserve the world for the future generations. If some ones culture affects the environment or maybe if their culture does not realize the environment as important these influences are passed onto the next generations and so on. As the chain of ignorance towards the environments continues more and more people won’t care about the world and won’t think the need to preserve it is necessary. I will need to create a website that informs people about the need to try and save the world.


 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">My investigation on this is going to help me understand the issue and what I will need to do.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">After investigating the information I have gathered will help me plan out what I am going to do when designing my product.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">After planning I am going to then start designing my product by means of my plan.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">After designing I will then evaluate my product seeing what went well? What went wrong? What could I have done better?

__<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">CSS Investigation __

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">A CSS is a cascading style sheet. Cascading style sheets are sort of like templates you can create a style sheet with a background, fonts and colors then apply it to different pages instead of starting to create the page all over again.

__<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">Templates Investigation __

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">A template is basically an already made layout that you can use to make a page in this case templates are used as set layouts for different web pages on a website. For example if you create a page and it has a heading and everything already set.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">Below is the questionnaire I sent to one of my classmates Ermeena so she could answer the questions to give me the information I needed for this task.

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">Questionnaire <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">1. Where are you from?

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">2. Which city are you from?

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">3. How important is that city to your country?

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">4. What tribe (If you have one) are you from?

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">5. What is your country’s main industry?

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">6. How much money is fuelled in your country’s main industry?

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">7. How much do you care about the world?

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">8. What type of music is native to your peoples?

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">9. What type of art is native to your peoples?

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">10. What are the most significant parts of your culture?

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">11. Do you think you were raised accordingly to your culture?

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">12. Do you enjoy being part of your culture or do some things throw you off?

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">13. Are you related to any sort of royalty?

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">14. What are the foods you eat?

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">15. Do you care about the environment?

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">16. What role does nature and the environment play in your culture?

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">17. How do you feel about animals?

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">18. Do you think your country cars about the environment?

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">19. What do you think is harmful to the environment due to cultural practices?

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">20. What approaches is your country/culture taking to preserve wildlife plants and animals alike?

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">Below are the answers I got from Ermeena after sending her my questionnaire.

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">Answers: > <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;"> I am from Pakistan
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">1.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">2. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">I am from Islamabad
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">3. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">Islamabad is very important for our country as that is the capital of our country .Our president lives there and almost very law is taken over there.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">4. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">Awan
 * 4) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">5. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">Cotton
 * 5) <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">6. I do not know
 * 6) <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">7. I care about the world a lot
 * 7) <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">8. Qawali (sufi music)
 * 8) <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">9. Calligraphy
 * 9) <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">10. Respect for religion, Respect for leaders, Segregation of men and women, Sufi music, Celebration of Eid
 * 10) <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">11. I think that the things which were very important in my culture, so yes I was raised according to it. However I cannot say that the way my culture tells us to be raised, so no I suppose that I was not raised according to it. My parents have raised me like all the people around me (like you), they never made me feel different from other people. As we all know that there has always been discrimination on the bases of gender, even in my culture girls are not to go in the same school as boys. We are not allowed to wear pent and stuff like that. But as I have spent most of my life in Islamabad which is a bit more modern that Peshawar (were I was born). However I do try to pray to god five times a day, as it is stated in the Quran .I have studied the Quran and finished it. I do try to keep all the rozas (fasting).
 * 11) <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">12. Yes, I do enjoy being part of my culture .However there are something’s that do throw me off. As there are people who still marry their daughter in young age to a man who is twice as old them. Children are forced to work. Girls are not allowed to go to schools, as they think that this is not good for them and what would they do if they get educated. They would get married some day and they think that their place is in the house rather that in offices or anywhere else.
 * 12) <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">13. No
 * 13) <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">14. We eat all kind of food, but it should be Halal. By halal I mean that we cannot eat pork, mice, dogs, cats and things like this. We do not drink nor take drugs, as these are Haram in culture.
 * 14) <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">15. Yes, we care a lot about the environment
 * 15) <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">16. They play a very important role in our culture as most of our food and medicines come from our environment. Still there are many people who do not have the proper means to live; they do not know what is electricity and gas. If they even know so they cannot afford it. So they have to use things from the environment, such as wood.
 * 16) <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">17. I think that animals are very important as one animal can make a big difference in our food chain. This will affect all of the species on the world. I even have a farm in which I have kept almost every kind of animal.
 * 17) <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">18. I think that there are some places in our country who care about the environment, such as Islamabad, you would be able to see a lot of greenery almost everywhere. However there r some places in which u would not be able to see a lot of greenery, such as Karachi as over there are most of the factories and the port is also over there. So there is more pollution.
 * 18) <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">19. None
 * 19) <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">20. We have a wildlife department which is trying to improve the conditions. We have many wildlife parks .There are many laws against pollution and the cutting and killing of animals.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;"> __Task 3 Design 24/9/2012__ Below is my Design 3 I made it with no colour just like the rest of my designs because I didn't want to specify a colour because there may be different variations on what may look good and I then may want to change it later on. It is a very simple plan to follow and outlined very basically because I didn't want to complicate things. This is my Design 4 very basic and it is also my favourite one and the design and it is the one I chose to use on my website because it is not complicated and i like the simple layout it is in. This is Design 2 it is also similar to the other designs in terms of the labels I put on it. This is design 1 it is easy to follow and resembles a table. My website pages. = = **PLAN:** **Create:**



=**Evaluate:**=

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 21.111112594604492px;">I think that during the create stage I slipped away from my original plans if I compare what I have to my design brief and product specifications I may have been a bit too specific in the terms of what pages I wanted to originally wanted to have put onto my website. I