Dan-
1 more day left....

After a very long term this year working on this project we are happy to say that the project is pretty much complete.All the final touches have been ironed out today and the application is fully functional.

- Links to different sections have been tried and tested and proof read.
- Testing has been done to make sure specific buttons take the user to specific areas and that all functionality works within every given page.
- We made sure that the offical soundtrack to the application was correct and fully functional, give it that the music track repeats its self when it finishes.Also that the on off buttons work,aswell as the volume bar.

The final application is going to be submitted in two forms : a DVD and on turnip(local uni network) The application should be up and running on the web by the weekend as we are still waiting for clearance for the domain name.

As Siemens Porsche have requested an additional DVD for them to look at we will be implementing this over night and send it to them as soon as possible to get any relevant feedback that they may have.

Maria - The DVD case and covers have been completed today and ready for submission tommorrow by 12pm.

Final touches...

We now have only a couple more days until the project has to be submitted and the site is nearing its conclusion. All the content has been implemented into the site and all functions have been completed

Post by Maria Seymour

We are now in the final week of our project, and are finishing off loose ends and adding the final bits and pieces to our final piece.

I have spent the last few days putting together the sound buttons (on/off and volume scroll bar), of which I built in Flash using tutorials I found on the internet. The coding for this was farely complicated and this took me longer than I thought it would. I also contacted Sony BMG to gain the rights to be able to use a song by the award winning artist Lemar as our sound track on the site, I then added this track to the code in Flash and the music part of the project was complete.

I have also been researching and writing out the content of which we will have present on the site, and designing more pages in Adobe Photoshop to add this onto. The aim is to keep a general style to the entire site, of which I have had to consider greatly in all my designs. Finally we have all the pages together and the site is starting to work as it should which gives us a scope into the small bits we have still to do.

In my spare time out the labs I have also started putting together the report, as this will need to be completed soon after the project.

Post by Maria Seymour (As my blogger doesn’t seem to let me add myself)

2 Weeks to go!

After weeks of each working at the main sections of the project, all that’s left to do is bring the site together in flash. After much debate on the style of the interface, we have both agreed and confirmed with the project supervisor a final style and can now see what our finished product will look like.

The flash section of the project is in no way the easy part, we have both spent time reading tutorials finding the best solution to code our site so that it delivers in the way we anticipate. We have broken up the site into sections for each of us to work on, and all that is left to do now is add music and arrange the site so that it will play as a movie file and work as a web site.

For the past few weeks it has been my job to design and build the design of the interface, created the content, and gave some of the models some last minute touch ups before going into the site. I have also worked on the flash code for various parts of the site such as the loading bar, and am now working on the sound track, and code to implement the sound track.

We are both confident with the amount of work still left to do and the time scale we have left, that we will achieve the desired finished piece and then begin work on the final report and poster.