Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Initial thoughts on final project

Hi everyone. I have been thinking what to write here for a while now and still have no idea. Since procrastination is my middle name, I think it is time.
As a remainder, I copied from our assignment what I actually need to blog about:

Why you are considering and/or discarding certain topics
Links to resources you might use in FW
Ideas for color palettes
Possible topics and titles for your 4-5 subpages
Links to good examples of similar websites
Possible original text for FW
Possible graphics or sources of graphics
Challenges you may face

It is a start. It seems like I suddenly have a plan!

Possible topics I consider (brainstorming session):
- blog about how to make blogs (technical perspective)
- everything about web development
- make my little version of IPL.org (I have second class in a row discussing it, making its prototypes, finding problems, lets just do something)
- second quiz gave me some inspiration about potential uses of facebook relating to Drexel instructors. Maybe I should expand on this thought and dedicate my little project to it in the name of all students harbouring a grudge. :)
- this is harder than I though it would be (this is not a topic)
I think I am coming to realization what a shallow person I am, nothing to talk about. I am not interested in sports (except UFC ), not a member of any honorable societies, knitting seems to be fun, but I think I need to warm up to it little bit. And the worst of all, I eat meat, a lot of meat. Talking about vegetarian food would look little hypocritical.
As you probably noticed I try to get my inspiration from students' works from previous terms, but it does not help me much. The site on overclocking is interesting though. I assembled my computer from parts I ordered online and even got a chance to put the processor in place. What a wonderful moment of booting it first time. It is aliiiiive! I played with an idea of overclocking whatever is overclockable, but I don't play 3D games (one more example of my shallowness) and I prefer quiet computers (no more cooling fans please).

Redesign of ipl.org is the most appealing to me, but the problem is that I would not provide my own content, I would reshuffle the content, make the website more usable, add some features and try to eliminate the problems people reported.
Second winner is a topic about web development and all Microsoft technologies: Silverlight, MVC framework , LINQ, 3.5 .Net Framework.


P.S. I did not know so many people want to work in libraries, especially in a rare book department.

5 comments:

mahsitti said...

I think you are being too hard on yourself saying that you are shallow. It sounds like you have plenty of valid interests. I also think that you should follow your gut and do the project that you would both be the most proud of and enjoy the most.

Diwata (aka Mrs. Stolberg on some posts-Sorry it's my post-marriage pseudonym) said...

Thanks for this post, I am thinking about mine and am a little overwhelmed by how many decisions there could be.

katherine said...

I know this is an old post, but it is funny and I wanted to comment on it. Sometimes it is better to have very few interests, because then you don't have to make tough decisions about your future--like should I be a singer or web designer.
Anyway, nice post. I can tell you are as nerdy as us librarians.

Meredith said...

I think overclocking was such a cool idea too. Have you ever seen this documentary: Akihabara Geeks? It focuses on a few lives of people that live in or visit this neighborhood in Tokyo called Akihabra or "electric Town." One of the focuses of the film on a overclocker who is constantly rebuilding computers so he can compute Pi faster/ longer. It is very interesting!

jenny said...

This is a very entertaining post. I encountered similar issues when trying to decide on a topic for my site. It made me feel like an extremely dull person. I just don't have any hobbies, so sue me! hehe