DMP - final stages

After a week of solid ATWD work finally the focus was back to the Digital Media Project, of which is about 80% complete now.

The application itself is in fully working conditions with all requirements (except the forum which was decided against) in place.

I have been working on the web application on my own server throughout this assignment and this week saw a meeting with Tony the administrator of the site.

During this meeting we went though the current site and all the features included.

Tony was very pleased with the site and how interactive it was. Especially as he could remove any latest and security news which would prevent the site looking neglected.

I have currently wrote the majority of the report up and recieved feedback. So its a simple case of tidying everything up pulling all my appendices and references together, proof read after proof read and finally printing it all off.

IAD - children and the web

This week we looked at policys and how to go about working with children and the policies about children on the web. The video covered how it isn't safe for children to go out as much as it use to be so they are staying in, and so using computers going online playing games and using social networks. We think they are safe because they are inside however because we havent prepared them for the online world they are in as much risk as the outside world, and they are at as much risk of being bullied as they don't understand how both worlds are different.


We haven't realised that online and offline communication is much different, as because we aren't seeing the person you are talking to online you can press the button easier and say more offensive stuff. Therefore we haven't educated children in this aspect of using digital media either.

By telling a child not use certain websites they may then use them as it is natural to rebel again parents wishes. Therefore parents need to pay more attention to what their child is viewing/playing on and also ensure privacy checks and security checks are in place.

There should be more safety policies incoporated into websites, and instead of the user having to click on internet options and finding their way round the security measures there should be a options on the website that within a couple of clicks they can have a securer website for their children.

current progress

its been a busy couple of months with all the assignment deadlines looming...

DMP - my digital media project is coming on well with most of the report written up and sent off to my supervisor for feedback. The site is also getting there, the user can now register which sends an authorisation and activation code to the user and admin. Once activated and authorised the user can log in and comes across a control panel which allows them to upload company details, and an image.

The latest and security feed is also up and running, and i am currently working on getting a message centre working, at the moment this is using a php script to retrieve the required users email address and sends them the message to their email.

CONSProj - The consultancy project is being presented to our client tonight over at St Pauls at their Anual general meeting.


ID - Interaction Design is due in this Thursday, out of all the modules this year this would be the one I am most dissapointed with. I think the reason behind this is because it isnt completely relevant to web design and evaluation a phone application didnt appeal to my group as much as creating websites with other modules.

IAD - Internet application development has taken a back seat over the last week or two dues to high demands from other modules, however once the assignment is handed out im sure focus will be bought back to this module.


ATWD - The current assignment is proving the hardest yet producing a RESTful web service to convert currencies, I will be spending the majority of next week working just on this module.