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It is good to see a number of you are diving head first into your personal website development. You must remember that the purpose of assignment 2 is to explain clearly the decisions and processes undertaken during the development of your model and renders.

To determine exactly what is meant by this imagine you are in practice and have just spent 4 months modelling and rendering this building but will be leaving to go overseas next week. You have to document enough so that a stranger to the project can sit down and learn what the project is all about and the processes behind it.

For example a new person to the team would have to understand:

• The file and CAD naming standards employed
• Who modeled what parts of the building in case there are further questions
• How the process by which the model was built and any issues that are not yet resolved
• Useful pieces of information that relate to the project or are generally useful to know (i.e. good rendering settings)

For the most part you have done an excellent job of recording all this information within the Reasonate blog posts. However these blogs posts are only so useful.
If you were the new person to the team you do not want to read everyone’s entire blogs to understand what has happened. What you want to do is read one concise document that has hyperlinks to the blog posts that relate to the information being discussed.

For your assignment 2 hand-in (i.e. your web-page) what you should focus on doing is putting together an html document (or set of documents) that provide this general overview of your project. This document should not recreate all the information you have already entered into your blogs. What it should do is outline the project and its processes in a clear, easy to understand manner and then within this outline provide hyperlinks to the relevant Reasonate blog posts that detail the issue.

Sorry for being deliberately vague on exactly how you should structure and word this document. What we are interested in is how you choose to tackle this problem keeping in mind that your completed work should be clear, concise and make extensive use of hyperlinks to the work you have submitted to Reasonate.

Just to give you some ideas on what is possible, you are not just limited to hyper-linking to a specific blog post (like this).
It is possible to hyperlink to all the things I tagged as funny by copying the url in the browser’s address bar.
Or if you like you could reference all the image files created by your project. To do so perform an advanced search, limiting the results to your project and only image files. On the results page click on the ‘Permalink’ button to get the url for this search in the address bar which you can then copy and paste into Dreamweaver.
If you have any questions please contact me either by posting a comment to this post or to my space in Reasonate.
 

If anyone has blog posts that they wish to be removed or edited before the handin please post a new blog entry to your personal blog entitled:

'Edits I would like to my blog'

Or tag your post:

blog edits 

I will keep an eye out for posts with this title and make any reasonable changes you request. These edits should not be for simple spelling or grammar errors but rather times when you have experienced 'multiple postulation' or even worse, 'premature postulation' (some of you guys will understand) and are embarrassed of their existence.

Please note:

Changes to the course information web site (after its final publication on 7 March 2006) are announced on that web site. For those who don't bother going back to that, here is a reminder of two crucuailly important pieces of info:

On the timetable page the deadline for hand in of assignment 1 has been moved ONLY FOR BArch Year 5, students, to 10 June 2006 from current 8 June date, so long as there are no other clashes with core courses. [Changed 25 May 2006]

On the timetable page the deadline for hand in of assignment 2 has been moved ONLY FOR BArch Year 3, ARCH 311 students, to 3 June 2006 from current 1 June date, so long as there are no other clashes with core courses. [Changed 1 April 2006] 

Hi

I was looking for the web site for the producers of Light Studio and discovered these cool images!

Check out the web site by clicking these images.

Hi

Follow up to my comment on David's post about publishing your files on the web..

Here are some screen captures of setting up a site - the first and most important thing to do...

M

Once this is done you should be able to instantly publish your site, and then check it online at Reasonate.

NB: to see stuff on the webarea in reasonat you need to follow the instructions to activate that function... 

NBB: sometimes when checking web sites online you will open a file only to be shown an old copy. This is a result of a trick that Internat Explorer and Firefox and other browsers use to speed themselves up. If you 'ask' them to load  a page they have laoded recently they will probably load a copy of the file from a local 'cache'. If you make a change in dreamweaver, publish and then browse and nothing looks different, it may be for this reason. To override this one normally presses <CTRL><F5> or <CTRL><R> to force a refresh off the original server...

The SOAD domain has a restrictive firewall in place making it difficult for you to upload your websites to the server using the process first advertised. To get around this problem we have put in place two solutions. The first is for you to use FTP rather than WebDAV to upload your files to the server and the second (if you still have trouble) is to use WebDAV in the method outlined below.

Primary solution: FTP Access

User accounts have been created on the server so that you can upload your websites via FTP. In Dreamweaver’s remote site info box (in your sites preferences) using the following settings:

• FTP Host: www.reasonate.co.nz
• Username: Your Reasonate username
• Password: Your student ID number

Because this was an unintended setup your FTP password is not synchronized with your Reasonate password. Please keep in mind that to access the FTP you will still need to activate your Web Area in Reasonate, to do so go to your Personal Blog, select My Web Area and follow the instructions.

Alternative solution: WebDAV

1. Open My Computer, the quickest way is to press the Windows key and the letter E on the keyboard at the same time (refer explorer.jpg).
2. Move your mouse over to the My Network Places entry on the left hand list.
3. Right click on My Network Places and select open from the context menu that appears (refer explorer_open.jpg).
4. The window will change to display a list of options on the left hand side of the window.
5. From this new menu select ‘Add a Network Place’. A wizard will appear to guide you through the process (refer begin.jpg).
6. Press next until the wizard prompts you for a network address (refer name.jpg). When you get to this point enter your Web Area url (found on your Web Area page) and at the end of it add the characters /#.
   For example for my web area I would use the address:
   http://webarea.reasonate.co.nz/David_Harrison/#
7. Press Next, give your new web place a meaningful name (refer name.jpg) and then press Finish to complete the wizard and open your web area. The wizard will disappear and you will be displayed (refer finished.jpg)
8. You can now drag and drop your website (or delete/rename files) directly in this window.
   The first time you try to make a file change a username/password prompt will appear. Enter your Reasonate username and password to this dialog and Windows will be able to modify files on this folder.

Info explorer.jpg

Info explorer_open....jpg

Info begin.jpg

Info name.jpg

Info finished.jpg

Info complete.jpg

Mike, 

On behalf of the 5th years julie, ursula, hannah, jo and matt. for reasons we have alreadly told you we have our exergesis due the day before the hand in , could we have an extension till sat???

Cheers

the fifth years

Check out people starting to reference stuff through GM: 

LINK: 

http://www.tagzania.com/blog/news/map-views-available-for-australia-and-new-zealand

Another place to keep an eye on - and to try posting to:

(as usual Mr/Ms Phelps - copy the following URL into your browser and press return - if your efforts cause problems for you or any of your colleagues, then the secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions)

LINK to Architecture Wiki:  

LINK to Mapki :

Interesting stuff! 

Just to complete the project this year we will be posting our models in the geographically correct place for the museum in Google Earth.

We will be using Sketchup to do this...

A brief description of how to do this can be found at Google's Sketchup support pages. 

Tuesday's last lecture in the course will have a brief run through of this... 

An example of what this sort of upload can look like can be found at the Google Earth Community (copy and paste this link into firefox/IE): Google Earth SoAD