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Content Management Systems Adam Elder B00136577 Publishing task 3 My site was a website about shoes and ranking the latest sneaker trends today and a little bit of background on the topic of each one. Migration When it comes to migration I did this through Infinity Free iFast Network, with this I created my domain, then I got an email with my cPanel account details, from there I was able to log in and make a quick installation of WordPress through softalicous. Then I took my site that I already exported through my localhost using WP all-in-one Migration, when I had this exported I went to the online WordPress site I made installed the WP all-in-one Migration then imported my local host. Theme The theme I used is WordPress's Twenty Twenty, I particularly liked this theme because of its swiss art style, some modifications I made to this theme was changing the font style and moving around the position of text. Plugins  The plugins on this site include Ultimate Responsive Image Sl...

 Choosing a UX Based Concept for your CMS CA2 Adam Elder B00136577 Publishing Task 2 (5%) Section A - What We'll Build This website will include a variety of shoes ranked and rated Some UX features that will be incorperated in this website will be a link to some sneaker fashion acounts on instagram  as well as a  wordcount limiter for the comment section. Some other features will be added to make sure that the site runs the best it can like ones that make images load faster or a move to top of page button and finally a comment section moderator. https://sneakernews.com/2022/02/05/a-history-of-the-new-balance-550/ https://www.ame.org/sites/default/files/target_articles/04-20-5-New_Balance.pdf Section B - Why Build it? (Why would people want to use a site with these design features?) I want to build this website with a feature to make the images load faster, There has been many times where I've been to a site with a lot of images and it would hold it back by taking a lot of...

Publishing Task 1 Blog Entry on the Past Conferences and UX Tutorials  User Experience (UX) Explained for Best Practice Website Creation UX Is becoming more and more popular as the design industry grows, everyone is competing for public attention, and the best way to grab the viewer is an eye catching design.  UX stands for user experience, the reason why it's so important is because it sets off a strong impression to the user on what your site/ application, etc has to offer. If the user experience on a website is bad that could set the user's expectations and could reflect on the company in the future, so it is important to set the standard from the start.  When thinking about the UX in your website/ app you need to put yourself in the shoes of the person interacting, you can't assume that they'll know anything about your site when they first click, so presuming is big mistake and can make the experience for the user difficult or even make them feel clueless. When maki...

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Week 12 Launching Project Solis This is the launching of Project Solis, this is a simple app for people to learn more about the solar system, the thing that would separate it from google is the fact the player can traverse the scene this is a lot more interesting than just reading text on the internet. When it comes to trying to get the gameplay footage for this project I had loads of problems when I tried to connect the headset to my laptop using the Oculus link, as usual, it didn't work and I was stuck with the endless 3 dots so I had to export my build to this application called "SideQuest" then I was able to import the game file from that app directly to the Oculus headset and from there I recorded, as usual, the gameplay using Oculus's building in capture system then exported it onto the SideQuest app and from there I could upload it to youtube. Enjoy the gameplay :) https://youtu.be/FWKGOwqBEb8

Week 12 Doing the launching of the Book This week is the final week where we finally show off our chapters, it was a strange journey since I've never written any academic books or anything that was to be taken seriously. Im happy with how my chapter turned out in the end I feel as if it holds some value for new knowledge on the topic of online gaming and Co-op multiplayer in both storylines and relationships online. There were a couple of problems that I had with structuring it, in the beginning it sounded like a blog post. Here is the final chapter Author Bio My Chapter dives deep into social interactions in gaming, talking about Multiplayer co-op as well as how online gaming affects players in and outside of the game. Ill also be talking about co-op games with competitive teamwork or storylines that involve two people working as a team and how they can bring people together. Intro: Do you ever wonder how Co-op Multiplayer and Co-op storylines affect the gamers of today? There are...

Week 23 Alpha This week for my project is all about refining things for my game, some things that I want to work on is the text and facts that the user will come accross. There are some things that are displayed wrong in my opinion with the text fields, On these text boxes i have a transparent glass behind the glass to make it easier to differentiate between the sky box and the text. This works really well but when I finished all the text boxes I realised that the text overflows the transparent panel  I also added a slight tilt on the panel to make it easier for the viewer to see the information on the panel for better UI, I didn't want the infromation to be directly vertical and beside the planet because this would make it harder for the player to read, this would mean that i'd have to make the panel larger to see making the scene more cluttered, so i thought it better to have it smaller and more consise as a small table infront of the user.  Something that inspired me with t...

Week 23 Reading 11 We're coming to the end of process for the chapter in the book and these final weeks are all about refining the piece and fine tuning. Some of the things I want to have within the coming weeks is a full chapter with a propper start and end as well as provide a better information structure. Author Bio My Chapter dives deep into social interactions in gaming, talking about Multiplayer co-op as well as how online gaming affects players in and outside of the game. Ill also be talking about co-op games with competitive teamwork or storylines that involve two people working as a team and how they can bring people together. Intro: Do you ever wonder how Co-op Multiplayer and Co-op storylines affects the gamers of today? There are a lot of factors that go into gaming today and it affects the public in different ways Does this affect gamers self esteem? Does it promote teamwork? Lets talk about it. Social interaction is becoming more important in recent years. Recent stud...

Week 22 First Playable This week I was bringing in multiple different ways to make the project sharper This project is coming to its final weeks and there's one thing im worried about,  the textures not showing up in the scene. I've looked all over youtube and tried everything and nothing showed up, at first I thought it was the textures, but I realized it wasn't the case when I tried other textures and assets. Im planning to bring this up with my lecturer during the refinement week. Separating my Planets into different categories makes organizing my scene so much easier. It makes adding text easier to find as well as makes the project look better when working on it, wish I did this sooner. This week is based all on adding info text for each planet and the sun, I want to make these interactive so that the player can click dismiss and bring up the information again.

Week 22 Doing it again & again This week we will be our thoughts on what we worked on so far in our chapters for the book. Author Bio My Chapter dives deep into social interactions in gaming, talking about Multiplayer co-op as well as how online gaming affects players in and outside of the game. Ill also be talking about co-op games with competitive teamwork or storylines that involve two people working as a team and how they can bring people together. My thoughts I think that im on the right path for my chapter, I like the headings to each paragraph and the information that they give. I think that people reading them would learn something new or find better knowledge on each topic. I feel that some of these topics carry over to real life and highlight how much they affect these gamers, especially the topic of mental health, as well as gamers, feeling a part of a group. That feeling of belonging or being part of a society has proven to increase self-esteem and mood, this is really ...

Week 21 Prototype wk 9 This week im progressing from the game design document, finally making a start on the game Project Solis. This week I laid foundations by bringing in assets to set the scene. I took a milky way skybox asset as well as some planets and the Sun.  All was going smoothly with the skybox and the sun until realized that the planets I added don't show up with textures in the scene Leaving them a purple, pink colour although its a nice colour it isn't what im going for when it comes to the planet Mercury  The sun is the only asset out of the package that shows up, In the scene, there are teleport mats scattered around so that the player can get better viewing angles of the planets, so far I have one mat beside where I intend to have the planets. I think the milky way skybox really brings it all together.  Something that I want to have completed next week for the prototype would be the info text on each planet and responsive UI to offer a better user experie...

Week 21 Doing it yet again This week our task is to go and look at blogs from two classmates and provide feedback on how they're doing with their chapters. This will be an in-depth review. Over the last couple of weeks ive been looking at pieces of work from Tudor and David. We all put our work on this google doc so that we can review work. While I was looking at Tudors work I could tell that he could format his work properly, everything was on tract and straight to the point, all of the introduction leading up to the info was short and concise while still engageing the readers to read what he has to say. Feedback for Tudor Something that I think tudor could improve on is his conclusion, I think his approach to upon learning better ways to do a conculsion, I believe he can make the conclusion more appealing to the readers, one way it could be improved is talking about the info gathered in a way that he isnt directly saying "in conclusion", saying it in more of a natural w...

Week 20 VR Project Progress This week I've completed a game design document on how I envision my game and what it should look like. I learned that there is a load of things that go into game making, I forgot that there was so much thought that goes into building a game and really fleshing out all of the parts that make the game what it is. I really enjoyed exploring ideas for this game, letting the imagination go free is fun and interesting, there are so many ways you can go with an idea or a concept. One thing I found difficult when coming up with ideas was when I started to ask myself questions about how I would bring this idea to life, I would find it really easy to come up with a concept but when I started thinking about how I could bring it to a unity project I would see cracks and things I would have to work around that would make the project unrealistic or unreachable for my skillset. https://www.dundoc.com/project/8095

Week 20 XR Tutorial 07 This week I'll be learning about how to use UI in Vr this will be very useful for my project, this is mainly because I want to have information on each of the interesting stars and planets in space. Since it's  such a huge part of my game I want to make sure I have this completely learned for when I bring it into it. This tutorial was heavily focused on text boxes this works out good for me as ill be using them for 70% of my game, as it will hold all the information for the player. I learned how to use buttons on these interfaces and how to make them appear/ disappear. There were a few hovering effects to make it look good. There was a really useful trick I learned is that when I want to reset the world id press a button on the controller I would teleport back to the spawn point and be greeted with this sign saying am I sure and once "yes" is clicked the world will reload. A really handy tool to have for the game so the players can easily manage...

Week 20 Reading 08 This week is about structuring a thesis so that the reader is engaged the whole time and finds the topic interesting, having that proper structure could be the deciding factor on how your essay is scored. Learning about how important an introduction and conclusion can be made me realise that they're very crucial. Co-op Multiplayer & Storylines Test Intro: Do you ever wonder how Co-op Multiplayer and Co-op storylines affects the gamers of today? Does this affect gamers self esteem? Does it promote teamwork? Lets talk about it. Social interaction in gaming was something that I knew about but never really looked into ever. Social interaction is important for everyone, for the company, and for mental health. Doing something that you enjoy such as playing video games is great and doing it with others that have the same interests as you makes it even better. It's because of this similar interest that people can form friendships. There was a study that was condu...