ElodieDurandunit1

Elodie Durand

unit 1

Problem i need to find out about one of my classmates culture and make a website about how it affects the enviornments. Research Lomwe people make their houses out of mud bricks and grass. They could on outdoor fires. They eat cassava (which is a type of root) and a type of corn powder mush. It can be eaten with different types of sauces and meats.

CSS and templates research

i reasearched about what CSS and templates were. CSS is a page where you ca write in orders/codes and it will do that order on the webpage. You can get some of those codes from a website called dynamic drive and put them into your CSS page to add styles and extra things to your webpage. you can change the font and style of the writing and the different backgrounds. you can get some extra things like mouse decorations. Templates are a design of a webpage tat stays for all of the webpages. you can use tools that puts the same template on different pages automaticaly and choose which parts of it you will change or not. Survey What do people eat in your tribe? Nandolo, pigeon peas, chinagwa. For meats, we can eat lizards, mice and small birds. To get those animals, we burn the fields and the small animals flee, so we are waiting at the end of the field ready to catch them. How do people dress? Women don’t wear shirts, and wear beads in a criss cross fashion. They also wear a cloth around their waist.. Men wear a piece of cloth tied around their waist and then around one of their shoulders. What is the main language. Lomwe What is the religion (what do you believe in) We believe that god created the earth, but we also believe in spirits.

What are the different jobs of women and men? Men are the leaders and usually do the job that will make the family win money. Women are like the men’s servants. They do housework like cooking or cleaning. They need to listen to every order of the men. They is a big difference between men and women in the lomwe tribe.

what are the type of arts and crafts that lomwe people do? They make beads out of shells, wood and paint them in colorful colors. They also weave baskets, hats, and mats and make traditional masks.

whatdifferent types of jobs exists. Most people work in fields, including children, and there are also traditional healers that communicate with spirits. What are the religious ceremonies like and what do they represent. People dress in special clothing and dance. What are cultural ceremonies like (marriage, death, etc.) Our people celebrate marriage, death, and birth. Those are the main ceremonies.

How is nature part of your people’ss life? Nature is very important to lomwe people. It is their whole life, they get all of their food and goods from there.

What other things might I need to know about the lomwe tribe? Lomwe people actually come from Mozambique, but they fled to Malawi when the portugeuse attacked Mozambique.

Design Brief  What i will do about the problem is i will make a webpage about my classmate's culture and how it affects our environment. Product specification
 * What my product should have: ||  ||
 * should be colorful ||  ||
 * writing that is easy to read ||  ||
 * it should be easy to go fro page to page using the links ||  ||
 * it should look interesting so that people wnat to read it ||  ||
 * it should have visal images to help people understand ||  ||
 * it should be complete and have all of the necessary information ||  ||

Product test

to test if it is colorful, i will make sure that i put colors into it. to know if it is easy to read, i will re-read it and ask someone else to read it and see if they have any trouble doing it. i will test every link and see if it leads me to the right page. i will check if it has all the information that it needs to have by looking back at my investigation and designs.

Design stage:

Designs

These are my four designs.


 * Design 1 || is it or is it not? ||
 * should be colorful || yes ||
 * writing that is easy to read || yes ||
 * it should be easy to go from page to page using the links || yes ||
 * it should look interesting so that people wnat to read it || not really ||
 * it should have visal images to help people understand || yes ||
 * it should be complete and have all of the necessary information || yes ||




 * Design 2 || is it or is it not? ||
 * What my product should have: ||  ||
 * should be colorful || yes ||
 * writing that is easy to read || yes ||
 * it should be easy to go fro page to page using the links || yes ||
 * it should look interesting so that people wnat to read it || yes ||
 * it should have visual images to help people understand || yes ||
 * it should be complete and have all of the necessary information || yes ||


 * Design 3 || is it or is it not? ||
 * What my product should have: ||  ||
 * should be colorful || yes ||
 * writing that is easy to read || yes ||
 * it should be easy to go fro page to page using the links || not really ||
 * it should look interesting so that people wnat to read it || yes ||
 * it should have visal images to help people understand || yes ||
 * it should be complete and have all of the necessary information || not really ||




 * Design 4 || is it or is it not? ||
 * What my product should have: ||  ||
 * should be colorful || yes ||
 * writing that is easy to read || yes ||
 * it should be easy to go fro page to page using the links || yes ||
 * it should look interesting so that people wnat to read it || yes, but looks confusing ||
 * it should have visal images to help people understand || yes ||
 * it should be complete and have all of the necessary information || yes ||



ll of my designs fit the product specifications. Design n 1 is the most basic, and the other designs are more original and different from what I am used to doing. . Design n 1 is too basic and might not catch the attention of the reader, even though it makes it easy to read and use. Design n 2 is very simple and seems easy to read and use. It is slightly more original than the first design. Design n 3 is nice, but I don’t think that it is very easy to use the links at the bottom of the page. And there is only a title for the whole website instead of a title for the specific webpage. And I don’t think that the interesting facts part is that important to this webpage. Design n 4 has a lot of things on it in the same area of the page, so I don’t think that it will be the easiest to read and use even though it makes it look very interesting

The design I will be using is design n 2 because it seems to be easy to use and read, but it looks more interesting than design n 1 without looking too much like design n 4 where there is too much in one place. And it contains all the necessary things unlike design n 3.

Plan

For my webpage, I will use Microsoft expression web 4.

The different pages thee will be in my webpage are the homepage, a page with the information about the culture of my classmate (or maybe two pages like that) and one or two pages about the problem, which is how my classmate’s culture affect the environment. In the homepage, I will write what my webpage is about and the problem. On the culture pages, I will write about the culture of my classmate and on the pages about the problem, I will talk about how my classmate’s culture affects the environment. The pages will connect to each other by links at the top of the page. each page will connect to all of the other pages. Something that i changed from the original design is that the title of the page is going to be under the main title insted of being next to it. i changed that because there wasn't enough space for both titles on the same line.

This is my flow chart to show how I am going to produce each product:



Create The only thing that i changed for my creation is that i added green borders to make it clear where each part of the webpage was.

these are the three webpages that i made:

Evaluation

this is the table from the product specification


 * ** What my product should have: ** || did i do it ? ||
 * should be colorful || it is not very colorful, but it has a minimum of colors and it is not just black and white ||
 * writing that is easy to read || yes, the writing is big enough and not too colorful to be easy to read ||
 * it should be easy to go from page to page using the links || all of the links work ||
 * it should look interesting so that people what to read it || it looks interesting because of the pictures and the colors ||
 * it should have visual images to help people understand || yes, it has pictures ||
 * it should be complete and have all of the necessary information || yes, it has all of the information that is necessary ||

if i were to do this unit again, i would read the instructions carefully to know what i have to do. i would also look at the examples so that i get an even better idea of what to do. i would also make i know all of the deadlines and get my work done and handed in by then.

To have done better in the investigation stage, i should have done everything that was written on the wiki and follow the instructions. i should have done a better design specification by doing what i was asked to do. i could have done some more research do be able to show what i was going to put into my product.

in the design, i should have added colors and and it colorful to look nicer. i should have put on the designs what i was going to put on every page. i should have clearly said which design i was going to do and clearly say why i didn't pick the other ones.

For the plan, i could have done a better flowchart that would be more detailed and show more clearly what i was going to do. i should have also added when i was going to do everything with the time on it.

for the create, i finished it, but when i tried to open it again, it was all weird and the things were all over the place. i should have made sure that i saved it correctly so that that didn't happen. but for what i did do, i think that i did a good job linking the pages together and making the page layout. i thought that i had enoguh pictures.