IDAT 102: It's here! The completed result

The specifications of the website consist of a conventional layout with a navigation menu to the left-hand side of the page and the content in the main body of the website, with a header consisting of the title and a footer consisting of validation information and links to my Twitter, Facebook and my blog here. The layout is defined by using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), which is referenced externally in the HTML code, but stored locally in the folder and on the server the website is hosted at. The website is constructed using XHTML 1.0 Transitional and CSS2. The colour scheme, which matches my personality of minimalism and Apple, will result in less issues regarding colourblindness due to the fact that when there are less colours (especially when they clash), there are less problems, and because the text is bright on a dark background, it's easier on the eyes and because my website did not rely heavily on text-on-images (especially if it had paragraphs on it), my website will not have problems with screen readers.

After ironing out a few things (mostly regarding the validation of the email submit form on the Contact Me page), I now have a completed result of my personal website, which is at http://www.elnormo91.co.uk.

IDAT 102: Almost there!

Progress is smooth on my website (which will be at elnormo91.co.uk) and the end is in sight, ready for more on Facebook API stuff and other projects that are upcoming

IDAT 107: Digital signature

During the course of a few weeks, we've been doing some Adobe Illustrator stuff. Part of our assignment is to design a digital signature by using fonts, scaling and colours but without stretching or distorting it.

For my digital signature, I have decided to use the font Myriad Pro because this represents my personality as very creative, clean, modern and minimalistic, which is kind of like Apple Inc.'s usage of the font throughout their products, literature and communication. The Norman part of the signature is emphasised in light-blue because it represents the modern-ness of the world and the Web 2.0 generation, which many people can relate to. Also, the 'A's are set in italic because this adds to the effect of the signature, and also highlights the difference between the double-storey 'A's of regular/bold and the script 'A's of italic/bold-italic.

IDAT 106: Fun with Terminal

Today, we are having fun with one feature that has only arrived on the Mac 10 years ago but featured on UNIX and Linux for decades, Terminal. We are doing many things on Terminal, such as changing directories, communicating with other computers via echo with IP addresses, and learning that we can use it for when we start to work on Arduino cards - programmable boards that can be used for anything, but I'm not too sure if it can do the same things as what iOS apps can do at the moment, we'll have to see...

IDAT 101: Blog review day

Today, in IDAT, we look into each others blogs. So far, a particular blog (which of course I won't name as he'll probably start putting something on soonish, in fact he is now doing it as we speak!) hasn't got anything on, not even a single thing (despite that he put a disclaimer as a build up to his blog, then it disappointingly resulted in an empty space)! Oh well, c'est la vie!

IDAT 101: Looking into technology for our strategy

In addition to our chosen space (in a club environment), I've looked into more technologies for our strategy, which will boost the scenario a bit more. These technologies include:


The Tenori-on: http://tenori-on.yamaha-europe.com/uk
Korg KAOSS PAD: http://www.korg.co.uk/products/dance_dj/kp3/dj_kp3.asp
DMX512 (the industry standard for lighting in stages and discotheques): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMX512
And ambient lighting, in which we are still exploring.


There's more to come, so stay tuned!

IDAT 106: The weird and wonderful world of RSS

Today, we have found many interesting, weird and unusual RSS feeds. I have found one about beer and fail images (you know, those ones that illustrate failure in unusual circumstances and funny stuff), which I didn't know they actually existed!