Work Experience - Day 5 (23rd February 2007)

Beginning of the day, I was involved in a meeting which was about Wire Frame with Phil Murphy and other Sequences staffs. So what is Wire Frame? Wire Frame is all about representing the look of the website by using visual representation. It is a way of communicating to the client through using visual aids without having to give them documents and documents to read on the look and feel of the website.

The software used for producing Wire Frame is Microsoft Visio.

Rest of the day I did testing on Sell4wales websites and was looking into the back end of the MyHR system of the functionality aspect.

Work Experience - Day 4 (22nd February 2007)

I continued with the Gwagle research. This time I fully documented it in Word document with several more ideas.

I was testing a CD rom which was produced for WJEC. The CD contains projects produced by schools and colleagues along with student profiles. My job was to test the CD Rom with MAC & PC.

I was then involved testing the email system of the Business Eye website.

Later on the day I was introduced to the backend of the MyHR. The introduction allowed me to see how documents were created using the CMS. Basically in the CMS, you have a form which allows the user to enter their variable and later called that variable like mail merge style e.g. {Employee Name}. It allows user to create own documents which can be used by HR.

Work Experience - Day 3 (21st February 2007)

Day began by continuing with the bug testing for Buy4Wales website.

My next task was then to bug test an online system developed by Sequence called My HR for www.myhrdept.co.uk . It is a system which allows a simple way of producing HR documents.

After that, I was bug testing the Business Eye website. I was testing the emailing system.

Work Experience - Day 2 (20th February 2007)

Day 2 began by attending a system analysis meeting with Phil Murphy (Sequence Director) and one of the clients Sequence is working with, along with Richard Baker (Sequence Director).

The meeting was very interesting; I was given opportunity to participate by sharing thoughts and ideas to the system the client was proposing. The system the client was proposing was a SMS based website. The website is about quitting smoking. Using mobile phone, the smokers can register to the website to join a quit smoking scheme, where their smoking habits are monitored for 6 weeks. The communication is down via SMS, but users will have chance to logon to the website to add or edit information.

After the meeting, I had another short meeting with Phil Murphy along with the same client. It was about a website called Gwagle, which is bit like myspace. It is a community website for medical practitioners and Doctors. By next week meeting, my task is to come up with some ideas of ways to enhance the Gwagle website by researching into features of web 2.0.

My final task of the day was to do bug testing on Buy4Wales website by following a test script.

Work Experience - Day 1 (19th February 2007)

Day 1 began by introduction to Sequence. I was shown around Sequence and met with Sequence staff.

I was introduced to the Diablo website which Sequence developed. It basically allows users to create their own websites by using a CMS. The developed of the CMS looks sophisticated, but it does a great job. The CMS allows to add/edit/delete webpage. It also as allows changes to be made to the look and feel of the website by moving the navigation, menu tool bar and changing the overall colour of the website. The best thing of the CMS is, you don’t have to worry about any code! Yes no coding.

The web link to Diablo is here if anyone is interested: http://www.community.sequence.co.uk/


My first task was to produce a website using the Diablo CMS. Check it out on: http://cyfle68.community.sequence.co.uk/ . It’s not fully finished.

The 2nd task of the day was to write a mini user guide to one of the features of the CMS for a client.

Happy Chinese New Year

Like to wish all the blog readers and everyone on D10 a happy and a prosperous Chinese New Year! Gong Hay Fat Choy! Akemashite Omedeto Gozaimasu! Sae Hae Bok manhi Baduseyo!


End of D10 for now, time for Work Experience

We just finished our D10 for now for work experience. Looking forward to the 2 weeks work experience with Sequence. The things I am hoping to do is testing, wire frame, attending analysis meeting and data architecture.

Hope you all in D10 have a nice work experience.

Leo from Sequence

Leo gave a presentation on Flash games from his experience. During his time on Sequence, Leo worked on several Dr Who games. His role at Sequence was a designer. Seen some of the artwork and it was mind blowing.

I found the presentation very beneficial as it gave an insight into how briefs are tackled within a new media industry. Leo had given us some advices regarding future production of Flash games.

Thanks Leo! Wish you all the best on your new job.

Bluetooth presentation

The Bluetooth presentation was given by a person called Rob Light. It was very interesting presentation because it addressed how technologies are used for marketing purpose through use of Bluetooth.

One of their projects was a rugby match in Cardiff Millennium Stadium. Each corner of the stadium, a Bluetooth centre is put up where the fans can in there and can have a Bluetooth message about the latest scores and promotion.

Rob Light was saying that in future, when you walk past shops in city centre, you will be asked from the shops whether you wish to receive a Bluetooth marketing message. This is the new way of sending marketing pronominal advertisement to mobile phone rather than making users subscribe to premium text message for a marketing promotion.

Promo Cymru Brief (Flash Game)

The Promo Cymru project was based on a Flash game which was created by me and my colleague Gareth (D10 trainee). The project was open to new ideas. However, whatever we produce, we have to address some of the 10 commandants (the 10 entitlements) which address some social aspects as well as educational. The 10 commandments basically is a sort of list of rights each of the youngster are entitled to e.g. right to education, right to employment, right to making decision etc.

What we decided to do is to produce a game which will address those commandments in more of fun away by creating a Flash game based in Cardiff City Centre. The theme of the game is about aliens invading Cardiff and trying to make human work for them by not allowing them by invading their rights. We named the game Cardiff Attacks.

The game kicks off by a youngster coming out from Burger King (in the game named Burger Queen due to copyright) in Cardiff City Centre. The youngster embarks to the Public Advice Centre to get advice on employments, education, financial etc. The problem is aliens are preventing him from reaching his destination. Then the confrontation begins in order to win the rights back.

My part in the game was to work on the graphics and the background of the game. We took pictures of the Cardiff City Centre, then using Adobe Illustrator’s pen tool, I had outlined the background so in end it can have the cell shade effect.

[Screen shot coming soon]

Mygo Brief

Hi everyone!

Apologises for updating my blog after very log time. Been very busy. Right, let’s get on with what I was doing for the last 6 weeks.

I was involved in the Mygo Interactive TV game with Aled, Zoe, Lindsey and James. I was very excited about this project because it was my first time of participating in this kind of project. Mygo is located in Malaysia, we communicating with them via video conference.

It took us some time to come with the actual idea and theme of the game, because a project of this kind was new to all of us. Our theme is based on a house, where each window holds a letter to an anagram.

The way it works is by the player sending a text message to register with his/her nick name and mobile number. Then the player will have to choose a window by voting in a number which corresponds with the windows. After the text messaging session, all the votes are counted. The window which has the most votes will open with a scroll displayed by using animation. The scroll will display a letter from the anagram which the player will have to guess.

Once the user finds out the answer, he/she will have to text the answer.

When we tested with the D10 trainee, they all loved it, but it required some tweaking. The end product of the game was excellent.

Working on this project has been one of my best experiences out of all other projects previously I worked on. It was a great opportunity to work with Mygo and to take part in Interactive TV game.


Screen shot of the design to the game is shown below: