Abu+Ojoneke+Esther+unit+1

=**A**BU OJONEKE ESTHER.= =PROJECT UNIT 1= = = = = //In this project, I am required to research on one of my classmate's culture and write on how their culture can affect the environment. I will be expected to create a questionnaire to help me know a few things about my classmate's culture. The classmate I will be interviewing is Connor Rubidge and I will be investigating on the South African culture.// //__**QUESTIONNAIRE.**__// //Where do you come from?// //-Mpumalanga.// //What is your local food?// //-Pizza// //How do people dress locally?// //-They wear normal clothes.// //What are your major languages?// //-English and Afrikaans.// //What are your cultural religious beliefs?// //-In Mpumalanga, there are Christians, Muslims, pagans, traditional worshipers and others.// //What is/are the major occupations done there?// //- There is a lot of farming, especially of oranges, bananas, sugarcane and some other common crops. They also have traditional medicine doctors.// //What is the educational standard of majority population?// //-Over there, most people have gained at least primary school education.// //What kind of buildings are common there?// //-In Mpumalanga, there are normal buildings there. However, they have a few traces of local mud houses and no major factories; the factories are far away from the city.// //What major events go on there?// //-They have carnivals every year, where people put on colorful clothing and dance about in the streets.// //How do you think your culture is important to the environment?// //- It is important because these people make up the world's population and they contribute to the general welfare of the world and the world's population.// //After asking Connor these questions, I did some little research on my own about the culture. This is one of the facts I came up with.// //Their local dressing consists of a 2 piece animal hide skirt usually made from buck hide. Some women wear long beaded necklaces which extends over their breasts. Ankle and wrist bead wear is also common.Men in power would always pride themselves with extra covering from cheetah skin. Some other women wind copper around their entire bodies.// __**//PRODUCT SPECIFICATION.//**__ //My final project product must://
 * //__PROBLEM__//**
 * || Done/Undone. ||
 * - Be legible and easy to read. ||  ||
 * - Involve lots of creativity. ||  ||
 * -Be easy to comprehend and understand. ||  ||
 * - Include lots of descriptive, relevant pictures. ||  ||
 * - Be informative and resourceful to the reader. ||  ||
 * - Contain accurate and complete information. ||  ||
 * - Suit the purpose for which it was produced. ||  ||
 * -Be brief, concise and straight to the point. ||  ||
 * -Have suitable simple colours and designs. ||  ||
 * - Involve use of multimedia links. ||  ||
 * -Make use of at least one webpage design template. ||  ||


 * -Have links and conclusion page ||  ||
 * -Meet all these requirements. ||  ||

To confirm the accuracy and compliance of my final product, I will test it against the product specification. I will also test run all the links and ensure they are all functioning and up to date. I will also test my choice of colours, background, fonts, designs, etc against the opinions of my fellow classmates, peers and even relations. To know how enticingly unique I can make it, will compare it against other willing peers. For the final touch, I will give it to a knowledgeable person who I know is impartial and neutral to view all the links, and tell me his/her opinions about my final piece. I will ask questions like: //**__MY RESEARCH.__**// //For this stage, I was required to research on CSS and Design templates. CSS is an abbreviation for Cascading Style Sheet(s). CSS is a program used for describing the look, format, font, design, etc of a document/file written in a markup language (A simple system for jotting a note that is made while reading a specific text)// One of CSS's purposes is to separate the contents of a file/document from its presentation, including features such as the text style, font color, font size. It is very resourceful, and the main function is making your webpage more interesting, more colorful and much more creative. On the other hand, a template is a pre-developed page layout in electronic devices used to make new pages with a similar design, pattern or style. It saves the user the stress of creating a whole pattern, design or style. One of their advantages is they are easy to apply and use. The main purpose of the research on theses two things is simply to see some ways in which we can make our webpage look
 * __PRODUCT TEST__**
 * How do you like this webpage?
 * Do you find this page attractive and exciting?
 * Do you think this exerts a lot of creativity?
 * Is it suitable for all age groups - not too mature and not too childish?
 * Are you satisfied with the choice of colours?
 * And some other questions relating to the product specification...

__The designs of my webpage samples. __

This is the introduction to my designs. //__ DESIGN 1. __//

This design was very descriptive and detailed on how I wanted the first webpage sample to look like. It has fulfilled the requirements of my design specification, or almost all of them. In my opinion, the colors are suitable and relevant for different age groups. It also contains links to different pages containing information relating to the South African culture. It also involves the use of multimedia sources, which is very interesting and attractive. However, it failed to identify with an aspect of the design specification, which is it did not identify the kind of template to be used. I think this sample did not reflect a lot of creativity and imagination. One of the reasons is that it did not have a lot of pictures and it looked a bit plain, that is because I did not put in the colors. However, I like this design for the fact that it was very organised and showed most of the things I would have wanted to have on this webpage.
 * __//DESIGN 1 EVALUATION.//__**

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 * Design requirement || 0(not done) || 1(fair) || 2(fairly good) || 3(good) || 4(very good) || 5(excellent) ||
 * -Be legible and easy to read ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * - Involve lots of creativity. ||  ||   ||
 * -Be easy to comprehend and understand. ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * - Include lots of descriptive, relevant pictures. ||  ||   ||
 * - Be informative and resourceful to the reader. ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * - Contain accurate and complete information. ||  ||   ||   ||
 * - Suit the purpose for which it was produced. ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * -Be brief, concise and straight to the point. ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * -Have suitable simple colours and designs. ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * - Involve use of multimedia links. ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * -Make use of at least one webpage design template. ||
 * -Have links and conclusion page ||  ||   ||   ||
 * -Meet all these requirements. ||  ||   ||   ||

__// DESIGN 2. //__

__//**DESIGN 2 EVALUATION.**//__ This design is much neater and organised than the first design. It also has more pictures and colors, though the colors are not visually shown on the paper. The sample also shows the use of more than three colors, and this is satisfactory as the level I have set is a minimum of three colors. It also did not include any use of multimedia, and this is because during its production, the design specification was not referred to, concerning the use of multimedia links.

|| ||  || ||   || || ||   || ||   || ||   || ||   ||   || || ||   ||   ||   || ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   || ||   || ||   || __PLAN.__ For my final design, I chose my second design, because it reflected more of the design specification than the first one. However, I am going to make a lot of changes to this sample. For my final website, there are going to be more pictures, links and multimedia links. In this website, I would have lots of pictures surrounding the information text, there would also be a lot of links to information about some of the South African terms used in the text. I would also put a link of the South African anthem in all the different webpages. I would make use of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and design my webpage using Web Expression 4. One of the errors of this design was that it did not show the use of any webpage design template, which was one of my specifications/requirements and to correct this, I will make use of the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) as I have mentioned above. This is one of the things looked at (CSS) during my investigation, and this is the reason it was shown to us. Another mistake of mine was that I created a design sample of only a single webpage, instead of a sample of what the total website is going to look like and how it is going to link up to the other pages. My webpage will give any necessary information concerning the culture of the South Africans. The background colour of the website pages will be black, and the font colour of my text will be white, using the default font. My first webpage will be the home page of my website, giving links to information about: - Poverty eradication - Legacy projects -Art festivals -Theater -Music -Orchestras -Dance There are lots of pictures which have been incorporated into this website, each one corresponding with the topic being used on that webpage.To make my webpages look more colourful, I will make the headlines colourful and bold, to make them outstanding and drawing attention to the reader, which would encourage them to read the full contents and even more from that particular webpage and maybe, even the whole website. This would help me to accomplish the colourful aspect of my design specification. I would also highlight some certain Afrikaans or Nguni words or phrases, to still incorporate colour into the webpage and the meanings of the highlighted words and phrases will be written at the end of the page. To fulfill the design specification concerning the aspect of the use of multimedia links, I will as mentioned before, make links available to listen to the South African national anthem and some local South African songs and choruses. The pictures I will be placing will, of course be relevant and creative, as this will add a touch of colour, once again to my work. My first webpage will be of course my ome page. The title will be South Africa. It is designed with xx large font size, written in green color font and usong Algerian font style. It is written in a table of merged cells, with pictures surrounding the title, the pictures are mainly in shades of brown, yellow, white, black and so on, but as the title is in neon green, it makes the title obvious and noticeable. The title design I have decide to use is a cross in between my two designs, in the sese that, like the first sample, my design will be in the middle of a picture, but instead, it will be surrounded by around 8 smaller pictures relating to the culture.
 * Design requirement || 0(not done) || 1(fair) || 2(fairly good) || 3(good) || 4(very good) || 5(excellent) ||
 * -Be legible and easy to read. ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * - Involve lots of creativity. ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * -Be easy to comprehend and understand. ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * - Include lots of descriptive, relevant pictures. ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * - Be informative and resourceful to the reader. ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * - Contain accurate and complete information. ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * - Suit the purpose for which it was produced. ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * -Be brief, concise and straight to the point. ||  ||   ||   ||
 * -Have suitable simple colours and designs. ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * - Involve use of multimedia links. ||  ||   ||
 * -Make use of at least one webpage design template. ||
 * -Have links and conclusion page . ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * -Meet all these requirements. ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Animals and plants.
 * Arts and culture, which is furthermore subdivided into:
 * Democracy
 * Economy and government( national affairs)
 * Education
 * Geography and climate
 * Health care
 * South African people.

Final webpage HOME PAGE

LINK/ PAGE 1(ANIMALS AND PLANTS) __Evaluation.__

I am pleased with this webpage but however, it still did not fulfill one aspect of the product specification, which is all pages must have links to the other pages. Only the homepage had links to all the other pages, but the information pages did not have the links to the other pages, that is interlinked. In my next project, however, I will make sure that all the points of my design specification are considered in my final product. As this is my first webpage I have done, I am still quite impressed but not comploetely, and will try to work harder in making sure that all the product's specification are always considered in my work.