Demo

I had the demo yesterday. I felt it went well but I was a bit nervous. The nerves came out of nowhere for me. I'm not sure I answered all the questions right even though I know the project inside out! I was concentrating too much on the plan I had for the demo and not enough on the project itself. I felt that the lecturers were impressed that I managed to get it up to the MMserver as well as Register365 and how I bought the domain name www.theseasonedbackpacker.com. The project seemed a bit askew in places also. The search bar had previously been in the centred but went askew in the demo.
Overall, I am happy with how the project went. I put a lot of time and effort into it and it paid off.

Server

Got project up to server on Friday. Wrote final report over weekend, finishing and printing it off today.
Fixed issue I was having with server by deleting an extra column on database.
Uploaded final report to Moodle. Taking a copy of everything on CD now.

28/04

Created a video yesterday. It is in the about section of the website. The idea behind the video is to give users a taster of what is to come on the site.

25/04/2017

Today I will tweak the rest of project. Then tomorrow I will carry out testing and then for the rest of the week I will finish final report. On Tuesday I will put it on a server and get bound copies and then the demo is the 4th or 5th of May.

24/4/2017

I made some more progress. I finally got the profile picture working. It looks really good. Also tweaked a lot of other elements.
Updated database to include new content.
General cleaning up.

More progress

I hooked my project up to a new database that I created. It's called 'travel' and I have an 'article' table instead of 'notice'. I also created an animated 'down' arrow for the index page. I also tidied up some bits and pieces in the project.

Progress

I worked solidly on FYP today. I made some good progress but have a way to go still. I have a checklist of functionality that I would like to achieve. I managed to make a responsive sitemap and navigation bar. Along with tidying up some surface items. I added the rating widget and like button also.

Tutorial

I had another tutorial today. I feel like I'm back on track now. I need to delete some stray fields from my database and project. This was causing issues. Also have fixed header issue I was having. Next week I will concentrate fully on my FYP.

Struggling

I am trying to manipulate the CodeIgniter PHP project and when I try to it throws out the whole project. I think I am going to need to peel it all back and look at the easiest way of doing things.

Rating widget

I had another tutorial to discuss my project yesterday. I wanted to chat to Sharon about various features on my site and the best way to go about implementing these before I star. Sharon agreed that the Rating Widget I found for the star rating was the best option. I am happy to go with this also. I couldn't think of any other questions to ask her so I think I just need to get on with finishing the project now. She said it looked good, which I was really happy about.

Better understanding

I have gained a better understanding of CodeIgniter through doing the news website projetct for the Advanced Web Programming subject. I will apply all of this new knowledge to my travel website in the coming days. I had a chat with Sharon about the star ratings and we have come up with a plan as to the best way to go about this. I am researching star ratings through PHP and social media plugins today.

Importing HTML and CSS into PHP

I have successfully imported all of the HTML and CSS for my project into the PHP. I am happy with how it is going so far, I have also added some extra styles. The presentation of my first prototype has been deferred until tomorrow, this means that I will have more to show my supervisor. I am nearly two thirds of the way through. All I need to do really is add the 'wow' factor functionality.

Tutorial

I met with Sharon today. I learned a lot about CodeIgniter today and how my HTML will hook in with PHP. I am happy with how it is going. I have the first presentation of prototype tomorrow. I will do more tutorials to become more advanced with programming. I gained a lot of clarity today.

Project Development

I have been in contact with the LSU for extra tutorial for the database side of my project. I have organised a session for Tuesday at 12. I have been trying to do the development side of my project for the last two days. But I heard that we should really do the database side of things first and then do the HTML side CSS. Build the site around the database instead of vice versa. We have the presentation of first prototype next week. Hopefully I can pull it all together before then. I have the components for HTML, CSS, Javascript etc but I need to be aware of designing around a database.

Development

I started my Dev today. I think there will be a good bit of work in it but I aim to have all of the design side of it - HTML, CSS etc side of things done by the presentation of prototype time next week. I will then connect the database side of things after that.

Presentation

I feel that presentation went well.... I was nervous but felt less nervous towards the end of it. I feel that my project will be do-able now. I am starting on development now.

Practice presentation

I have my presentation tomorrow. I have added some slides to it to update it, I will practice it tonight, keeping it to 5 minutes.

Presentation

Working on my presentation today. Working my way through navigation, moodboard, wireframe etc. I am getting a better understanding of my project as I go. Nervous about presentation as we will have 5 minutes of questions at end but am ok with the 5 minute presenting part.

New logo

I created this logo today for my FYP project. I am happy with it. It's kind of retro. I installed the font Swistblnk Monthoers for the name and traced a rucksack for the image.

Project user requirements

I am pressing pause on my project for the moment to concentrate on other projects but it is constantly at the back of my head....I am thinking of ideas for it on a daily basis. I will get back to it next week to finalise user requirements and draw up my wireframes etc.