Federico+Bizzaro+Unit+1

=**Unit 1 Page**= = Task 2 :INVESTIGATION (criteria A) =

__ The problem __ Our problem is that we must choose someone’s culture in our class, and research how it affects the environment. We have to create a web page about them and explain our answer; the person cannot be on our row and will probably be someone we don’t know very well. We need to get the information by making a questionnaire to give to the person who’s culture we are researching or by researching it on the internet. __ Research __ To research the problem I created a questionnaire for Gloria, these were the questions that I included: __ Intro __ This is the information I was able to get from the questionnaire: Gloria was born in Blantyre, Malawi; she is part of the Maseko Ngoni and part of Lomwe tribe but in this case takes from her father’s side which is Maseko Ngoni. The headquarters of her tribe are in Lizulu but her village is in Chimgwandale T/A Kachindamoto Mtakataka, Dedza. __ Foods __
 * Where were you born?
 * What tribe are you?
 * Where is your tribe based?
 * What is a local food?
 * What is religion are you?
 * Is there a local religion in your tribe?
 * What do local dresses look like?
 * What are they made of?
 * What origin is your family?
 * What is your home?
 * What language do you speek locally?
 * Are there different tribes in your family?
 * Is there a tribe chief or leader?
 * If yes, what is his name?
 * What type of music is played in the tribe?
 * What rules and restrictions does your culture?
 * Do you have any spiritual beliefs?
 * Is your tribe based near a city or in a rural area?

There are many local foods in her village, these are most of them, Uchazo which is cooked cow or goats blood, roasted maize, sweet potato put cooked in hot soil which is called Mbatata ya Kholowa. There is also Matowo which is a type of fruit, Mateme and Malambe which is a fruit of the Baobab tree which can be sometimes mixed with goats milk to make a drink or porridge. Those are just some of the first’s there are lots more like Mvuu which is Hippo meat, Oxtail boiled or roasted, Cow meat boiled or roasted, chicken, tamed pigeon, Guape which is antelope and also wild pig. There is also Nyani which is monkey, Mbewa which is mice that are boiled then put out in the sun to dry, Kalulu which is rabbit, Njiwa which is wild pigeons, Ngumbi which is flying ants, Bwannoni which is grasshopper and Mkaka which is fresh cow or goat milk.

__ Religion and Clothing __ Gloria is roman Catholic though in her tribe they used to worship Akuluakulu which means the Ancestors, they would pray to them for rain, crops or success in war. Local dresses in her tribe were usually a tube top like cloth wrapped around the upper chest for women and a skirt or cloth from the waist to the knees; also beads than ran from the left shoulder to the right hip and vice versa. The men would wear Nthini (Headdress), belt made of sisal and a piece of cloth to cover the rest. They would also have Lichowe which is a whisk like the one Kamuzu Banda had. Their clothes were made out of sisal, Chikopa (animal skin), goat skin, cow skin and they also used leopard skin as decoration but not used for clothing.

__Origins__ The origins of Gloria’s family are these. Her mother’s Great Grandparents ( great grandmother still alive) originally came from Mozambique with the Lomwe and settled near were southern Malawi and Mozambique meet. The Lomwe fled in search of land and peace but also because of the Portuguese. Her father’s ancestors are from South Africa, though Ngoni’s can also be found in some parts of South Africa, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Tanzania, Mozambique, Botswana and Malawi. She considers her home Chiradzulu since she is more attached to her mother’s family but traditionally it would be Dedza. She speaks fluent Chichewa and English but they speak Lomwe in her Lomwe side and a mixture of Zulu, Chichewa and Bantu. In her Ngoni side they speak Setswana and Swahili but it depends in what country they are. In her family there are two tribes, Lomwe and Ngoni.

__ Extra Facts __ In her villages they have leaders which are called Inkosi ya Makosi, they are royalty but not the top of the top, there are also chiefs and then the village head. The name of the leader is Teresa the Kachindamoto VII. They have a monarchy in the village which is run like any other but when if a women becomes the leader she is usually frowned on. It isn’t a very big deal since Kachindamoto VII is a woman ruling since 2003. The tribe is based in a rural area and they also play a lot of ng’oma (drums). __ Research into creating websites __ I also researched into creating websites, these are some of the things that i learnt. I am now able to make CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), they are useful because it helps you: make specific fonts, colors and sizes for your text on each page, it also makes it easier to change your work; if you need to have all blue text and you made it black CSS will make it easier to change everything without going through a changing by hand.

__ Design Brief __ To solve this problem I have researched a lot about her culture and looked at sources of food, clothing that the village have. Also to solve this problem I will look at anything the culture might use which is scarce in the environment or any benefits or harms the do to the environment. __ Product Specification __ To be successful I must have: __ Tests on my product __ To test my product I could look back at my research, research some more on the internet and see if I included the most important facts and didn't leave out many. To test if I made a good website I could check out other good website which have information similar to mine and compare them. Before I hand it in I need to have checked if all of the links work and checked if I have any merged tables. The nice layout also goes back to comparing my product with other websites and also comparing it will help me see if I had relevant pictures and not too many. To check if I had quality not quantity I could have one of my friends peer assess it. To check if I have an easy to use product I could have one of my parents try it out and see if it is simple or not. To see if the colors don’t clash, the text is a decent size and to see if I picked an easy to read font I could have it peer assessed by one of my friends. For last to check if I met all of the design specifications I could compare it to the assessment criteria.
 * Researched into the problem
 * Looked at what causes the problem
 * Made a good website which has good information
 * Links to all the pages
 * Merged tables
 * A nice layout
 * Some relevant pictures but not too many
 * Quality not quantity
 * Created a website which can easily be used
 * Colors that don’t clash
 * Decent sized text
 * Picked an appropriate font
 * Met all of the design specification’s

__ References __ I got all of my information from a questionnaire that I gave to fill in to [|Glori] a Dzanjalimodzi

Design Stage ==I will have four designs for my website, all the designs are different from each other and all include text, pictures, links to the other pages and a background. The designs are hand drawn and i will take a picture or scan them and then upload them to this page, I will also talk about the one i will use to make my website and i will analyse it against my design specifications.==

This is my first Design:  To make my website i have researched into the problem and interviewed someone about their culture, i now have a lot of information about the Malawian culture. The problem was caused because people don't know much about other people's culture. I think that this design is a good design but it will not be the one that i will use to make my website, this is so because it is a very simple with the title at the top then links right under. It seems like all the other websites you find on the internet. My website has all links to the other pages and fits the design specifications, but the links seem like they are sub-titles because they are just under the title. There are only merged tables for the title, I could have added more. I think that the layout is nice but its boring. The amount of pictures is fine for the web page and it fits the design specifications. The paragraphs of info that I will include are good and fit my design specifications. This is my second Design:  This is my second design and is the design that i will be using to make my website. I chose this design because i like how it is layer out and fits all of the design specifications. I also chose this because unlike the first design the title doesn't get confused with the links. It fits into having merged tables, a nice layout, relevant pictures and i don't think that the color clashes. For some specifications i have to create the web page then i can analyse it. This is my third Design: I didn't choose this design because I don't like that the text is at the top and that the title is a bit hidden. Also i think that the pictures will be to small and would look better if they were bigger. I think that the links are placed nicely and easy to see. It doesn't fit my design specifications for merged tables because it doesn't have any. The layout is quite nice but could have been better. This is my forth and final Design: This would have been my second choice if i had made the title bigger and the pictures a little bigger. This includes all links to the other pages and fits in the design specification. It has merged tables for the text and pictures. I quite like the layout and the colors and think that it has a good amount of pictures. I think that a the top instead of putting the extra website links i could have put the links to the other pages and instead of the links i could have put the extra website links. Plan This is the timeline of the things I've done in this unit:

Software that we used: I have used a couple of different programs and software, these are the main ones: I used microsoft word to write up everything then copied it onto this page, i used Web Expression 4 to create and design my website and I also used Paint to edit some pictures before uploading them. Links within the website: All the pages in the website were linked together because they all were about the Malawian culture, the Home Page was the one that was linked to all the other pages because it explained what would be in the other pages, what the web page would be about and how the malawian culture affects the environment.

Breakdown of all the pages in my website:
 * __ The Page Name: __ || __ How to Make each Page: __ ||
 * __ Home Page __ || * You will first have to make a template which includes fonts, colour of text, backround and must have editable regions
 * You must now put in the information that you will include in the page
 * You must also add the pictures that you need in the editable regions ||
 * __ Foods __ || * You must keep using the original template
 * You must now put in the information that you will include in the page
 * You must also add the pictures that you need in the editable regions ||
 * __ Religion and Clothing __ || * You must keep using the original template
 * You must now put in the information that you will include in the page
 * You must also add the pictures that you need in the editable regions ||
 * __ Extra Facts __ || * You must keep using the original template
 * You must now put in the information that you will include in the page
 * You must also add the pictures that you need in the editable regions ||

= Task 5 :CREATE (criteria D) =

This is my Home Page Screen Shot: This is my Foods Page Screen Shot: This is my Religion and Clothing Page:



This is my Origins Page Screen Shot: This is my Extra Facts Page Screen Shot:

Problems: I had some problems at the start because i wasn't able to make the websites layout as the one i had drawn out. I later solved this problem by just simply inserting tables in the whole page to make a layout. I also had some problems with the style sheet and making the editable regions, to solve this problem I asked for some help from someone who new how to do it. Though after I learnt I still wasn't sure what regions I should leave editable and which regions Shouldn't. I decided that the picture regions and the text regions would be the ones that would always change so I made them editable. Task 6 :EVALUATE (criteria E)  Tests To test my product i had david look at my website and comment on some of the design specifications. i also looked at another website which has information about the Maseko-Ngoni tribe and saw how it was layed out. This is the link to it: []. This website if different from mine because it is mainly about information and doesn't have many pictures.

I am now going to evaluate my design against the product/design specifications. These were the points that i used as my design specifications and this is how i solved them.
 * Researched into the problem - I have researched into the problem by creating a questionnaire to give to Gloria.
 * Looked at what causes the problem - In my Home Page of the website i wrote about how Gloria's culture affects the environment and that is how i looked at what caused the problem.
 * Made a good website which has good information - My website had information that was from a real person and not from a website which could have added some extra things.
 * Links to all the pages - I have included links on all my pages and all my pages are linked to each other.
 * Merged tables - I used merged tables for the space where i included text and for the title in all the pages.
 * A nice layout - I think that the layout was quite good but it could have been better.
 * Some relevant pictures but not too many - To do this i only put two pictures on each page, i think that it is a sufficient amount of pictures and doesn't take to much space.
 * Quality not quantity - To check this i had David read over my work and he found that it was mainly quality not quantity.
 * Created a website which can easily be used - To check this i had David Hiwa try using my website, this is his comment "The website is easy to use and I can easily navigate through the different web pages."
 * Colors that don’t clash - None of the colors clash only the links that are blue clash a bit with the background but everything else is fine.
 * Decent sized text - I think that my text was a good size, it was size 18 and wasn't to big on the website.
 * Picked an appropriate font - I used Ariel which is an easy to read and bold font.
 * Met all of the design specification’s - I have met all the design specifications at a good level.

Improvements: If i would have to do this project again these are the things that i would improve: I think that instead of including the answer to the unit question in the Home Page i would make a a new page which will just be about how Gloria's culture affects the environment. I would also change the color of the links so that they don't clash with the background. And for last i would make sure that all the pictures were the same size a that if not then there would only be a small size difference.

Links to other pages: Homepage Unit 2 Page