Peter's Blog

Refer to the beginning of this course, I was confused with everything about this course. Although this course is familiar to “ DECO1100 ’ the course I took in last semester, it is not an easy for me to do. There were lots of new challenges and coding compared with DECO1100. On the other hand, it is easy to design an excellent and beautiful product. However, if I need to make the product in real life, it was terrible and lots of problem-solving. It is difficult to work individually for this course. Therefore, I met friends to work together in the project. In the first week, I grouped with my teammates and generated many ideas for the main concepts in WW1 topic. For example, interactive games to lead the user knows WW1, interactive newspaper to describe the WW1 or a map with details about WW1 battles. There were many ideas we pop out. However, coding was the challenging part of our group to do. Since we started the product which was a website, the API coding that linking to th...

In the last 2 weeks before the submission, I produced a website to describe my portfolio. The design was simple but well-functioning. Firstly, the website included a panel which can let the user to navigate to each section of the title. In addition, I put a JavaScript plugin that can make the words display when the user scrolls down to every section, it can show the user what section is he/she reading. Secondly, the website automatically resizes the page when the user makes the browser either smaller or bigger (Figure 1). The panel will hide to the left side and show a button at the left-top. Therefore, the user can read comfortably without any functional problems. Thirdly, I created a button for the starting section (Figure 2). The user can click the button to start my portfolio and automatically scroll down the first section. Finally, the user can contact me by email in the final section (Figure 3). These are all the features that temporary implementing now.  Figure...