Nearing Crunch Time...2 Weeks to Go!
This was the week I had been looking forwards to most, hands on designing of my designs and creating these on the computers. Although many people have been criticising the use of "Adobe PageMaker" I have actually found it quite good, I am defiantly walking away from this week with confidence in my ability to use and create a piece of work in "Adobe PageMaker". I feel that I have a greater understanding and greater experience from practically using this program 2 days straight.

I feel that I could have defiantly achieved more this week though, and aren’t too happy with the amount of work that I have produced, although it's not that I
haven’t been working to the best of my ability or working in all of the time given, its just I don’t have much to show for it in my opinion. But this has made me
more determined to go away and get stuck into some Self Study and produce more work, in my sketch book initially as I don’t have any of the software on my home machine, but at the start of next week to crack on and get my assignment to the stage I want it to be and the stage it should technically be.

Highs of this week would be the design, I feel I have created a professional looking design, although it’s not the best in the class room and certainly not something spectacular in designer’s eyes, but in my eyes I am proud of what I have created. I am especially proud of my logo, it did take quite sometime in
the end, as I only started out to do something quick and simple, but once the ideas started generating I couldn’t stop until I was finally happy with what I
had got. I feel I effectively showed my progress during this in my sketch book as numerous print outs, drawings and annotations are included.

Lows of this week would be the daunting fact that deadline day is fast approaching, and worrying about what I had to complete and what I could do to improve the work I have already completed. I’m not extremely worried though this is just a slight concern but I can imagine that this time next week I may or may not be even more nervous and worried.

I also was introduced to a very useful website today, www.lipsum.com, this is a website that generates text and as much text as you like, so that when designing a websites layout you can fill the appropriate spaces with actually text in order to see the full potential and effectiveness of your websites layout.

An interesting point about starting next week for me is also if Steve would move us around, and if so where!? But I personally aren’t too concerned about who I sit next too along as there a smiley face. Jamie