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The Conjecture, My New Project

by on July 25, 2011 in Final year project, General

I recently launched a new project, called The Conjecture. At the moment, its home is temporary until I have garnered more articles and some funding for its own domain.

The Conjecture is a student based project that enables people either in education or who have recently graduated to publish short articles on their interests. With the article length advised at being 400-500 words, I’m restricting waffle and testing the contributors to create short, realistic articles. Those that could be seen on online newspaper websites or market leading blogging sites.

I’ve followed the trend set by my final year project, studentbytes and solely used social media as the registration method. I’ve taken it one step further this time and allowed the integration of Facebook, Twitter and Google accounts. In doing so, I’m enabling as many people as possible to get involved in the project.

Not only does The Conjecture allow writers to get involved, there is a custom banner that can be designed by illustrators. Hopefully, this will be regularly updated with designs from illustrators of all types. It is little elements like this that I believe make The Conjecture a worthy investment for students and something they will be proud of getting involved in.

Website Progress

by on March 31, 2011 in Final year project

In this blog post I will be running through the current functions and developments of studentbytes.

First – User Account
The user account serves you information regarding your uploaded recipes, bookmarked recipes and the amount of badges that you have obtained. The screen shot below illustrates this.
studentbytes Account Page

Project 2, Meeting #2

by on March 7, 2011 in Final year project

The second meeting of Project 2 demonstrated that I have made progress on the website but there are still little things that need tidying up.

Having developed the website’s design (un-prototyped), I decided to present Helen with it and see what she felt. We were discussing tone of voice at the time so thought I would introduce her to the new direction I saw for studentbytes.

Website design development

by on February 12, 2011 in Final year project

As a result of the first supervision meeting, I felt that the design of the website needed personalising. This, to me, meant adding some more of my own style to the design. I decided to open up Photoshop and start to redesign the index page and apply this to the account page. I completely redesigned the header, footer and the ‘latest recipes’ sections.