My ICT A-Level website

This would be far better with detailed drop down navigation bar... I would honestly expect better and to me it looks like what is done at GCSE not A-Level! (only the feedback form has anything beyond what they do).

What grade are you predicted? C?
 
bhavv said:
TBH Its more like kindegarten level of work. There should be a new A level and degree for Gaming, where you play games, write reviews, make YouTube lets play videos, make a gaming blog, and get field trips to all the major gaming events and stuff.

I don't see why not, people can make loads of money nowadays by simply doing that.
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If only!
 
I'd have thought it'd be have to all be done by hand in notepad?

I use Netbeans, but I remember using Dreamweaver, it's easier to make a website, well actually it's insanely easy, but I remember one super hard part was getting stuff positioned correctly using dreamweaver, I found it easier using just notepad.
 
bhavv said:
Im my Biology degree we had to make a website for our second years final term research project. We had just 1 lecture and a handout on how to do that and it was easy peasy for everyone. It was also automatically assumed that we were already proficient with word / PowerPoint / excell, the only thing we were told was not to use stupid sounds and fades in our presentations.

ICT = a complete waste of a subject. Its really just the bare basics of how to use a PC for absolute nubcakes.

Regarding programming, I had to do that in AS level computing to make a simple text based football game. Computing is what you should choose if wanting to go into this field, never ICT.
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I would have to say having gone down the Computing route, that I wholeheartedly agree! I wouldn't say that ICT was just for nubcakes, that is a bit elitist... I saw their coureswork/major project and it was as thick as an encyclopaedia, of course much of it was screenshots of MS Office. Saying that, if you did computing then it is likely you already knew how to do or work out any of the ICT stuff!
 
'ICT' in schools desperately needs to be changed. Its not looked on as a worthwhile subject as many of the kids know more than the curriculum is willing to teach. My girlfriend did an access to higher education course to gain entry to uni, and in her computer class she was allowed to sit and get on with other work.

The OPs website is probably perfectly acceptable as its almost certainly what he was asked to do.
 
Going a bit off-topic here but...

While my ICT A-Level was mainly about Word, Excel and Access it actually gave me some really useful skills that allowed me to progress to the level I am now. People really shouldn't underestimate the value of advanced excel skills - in many instances people will think you are some sort of wizard for doing fairly simple formula.
 
I remember doing AVCE ICT, for the most part they didn't care what you did. It's a series of tick boxes to get the grades, you just have to implement what they ask for and make it clear as day when you do - ie: image of it.

I used Front Page to design my website for this module. Front...Freakin...Page. Looked terrible, but literally no coding at all. Still got 94% though :D
 
Loosecannon said:
This would be far better with detailed drop down navigation bar... I would honestly expect better and to me it looks like what is done at GCSE not A-Level! (only the feedback form has anything beyond what they do).

What grade are you predicted? C?
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I got an A for this website at AS (which is the first year of A-level) and am predicted the same for A2.
 
billysielu said:
You have made a website that is live on the internet... so how does one get extra marks?
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Sorry, forgot to reply to your comment earlier.. The main way to earn marks for this section is SEO, that's search engine optimisation, so optimising our websites in order to gain higher rankings on popular search engines, I'm focusing in on Google.
The other main way to earn marks is by maintaining the websites appropriately, which is why I need CONSTRUCTIVE feedback from people if they're willing to give it, as I can then act on thir feedback and evidence it in my maintenance log. Of course, I don't expect anybody to give me feedback, it's just really helpful asking people I don't know rather than friends.
 
External Style Sheets wouldn't go a miss.

Doesn't bugger anything up, and doesn't clog up your html/webpage files.

If anything, it makes it easier to maintain your website.

I'd also look at losing your Table structure and Style it with <div>'s in your newly created External Style Sheets :).

The website works, but considering the points above, or noting them for the future would improve it...in my opinion.

Goodluck!
 
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jackocurly0074 said:
I would have to say having gone down the Computing route, that I wholeheartedly agree! I wouldn't say that ICT was just for nubcakes, that is a bit elitist... I saw their coureswork/major project and it was as thick as an encyclopaedia, of course much of it was screenshots of MS Office. Saying that, if you did computing then it is likely you already knew how to do or work out any of the ICT stuff!
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Please, I was reading PC mags and Toms hardware and upgrading / building PCs since I was 12. Then I got into my first IT classes at age 14 .... 'Heres a whole 1 hour lesson on how to create an account and password' ... And the girl sat next to me uses her user name backwards as her password and proudly tells everyone ....

IT / ICT = special needs lessons to using a computer.

Regarding word / excell / PowerPoint, how could people need lessons on how to use those? Maybe just calculation formulas in Excell are hard, but they even at A level Biology you are trained how to use excell for statistical tests. Excell is really just a maths + biology thing, I doubt ICT students are doing T tests / Mann Whitney U tests etc.

Regarding ICT coursework, its 100% quantity over quality. All that time wasted doing coursework and you still can't do basic computer programming. C++ and Java programming needs to have its own dedicated GCSE, but that will never in this mostly technophobic country because its too hard for herman herp and derpina dumbnut. Music technology and production should also be taught from age 12, computer coding / programming from age 14, its really not hard at all for most kids nowadays who absolutely love working on computers.

And then people wonder why there's so much unemployment today when our education system is decades out of date and too focused on SATs and test results rather than actually teaching modern skills and techniques with current technological advances.
 
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Nothing wrong with tables.......unless you use them to format a page instead of to tabulate data.
At the very least I would prefer to see an a:hover for the menu. The pages might flow better if the band names were above or below the images instead of to the side, as it is leaves too much dead space and/or makes the texts appear a bit jumbled.
Just my opinions of course.
 
DefiantAsh said:
External Style Sheets wouldn't go a miss.

Doesn't bugger anything up, and doesn't clog up your html/webpage files.

If anything, it makes it easier to maintain your website.

I'd also look at losing your Table structure and Style it with <div>'s in your newly created External Style Sheets :).

The website works, but considering the points above, or noting them for the future would improve it...in my opinion.

Goodluck!
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Thanks for the feedback, I'll try to implement as much of this as possible, but I'm an amateur so I'll have to get my teacher to take me through it so I don't mess the whole thing up :)

malfunkshun said:
Nothing wrong with tables.......unless you use them to format a page instead of to tabulate data.
At the very least I would prefer to see an a:hover for the menu. The pages might flow better if the band names were above or below the images instead of to the side, as it is leaves too much dead space and/or makes the texts appear a bit jumbled.
Just my opinions of course.
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Thanks :) The band name thing is actually a valid point, I never really thought about it haha, I'll give it a go and see how it looks, cheers :)
 
bhavv said:
Please, I was reading PC mags and Toms hardware and upgrading / building PCs since I was 12. Then I got into my first IT classes at age 14 .... 'Heres a whole 1 hour lesson on how to create an account and password' ... And the girl sat next to me uses her user name backwards as her password and proudly tells everyone ....

IT / ICT = special needs lessons to using a computer.

Regarding word / excell / PowerPoint, how could people need lessons on how to use those? Maybe just calculation formulas in Excell are hard, but they even at A level Biology you are trained how to use excell for statistical tests. Excell is really just a maths + biology thing, I doubt ICT students are doing T tests / Mann Whitney U tests etc.

Regarding ICT coursework, its 100% quantity over quality. All that time wasted doing coursework and you still can't do basic computer programming. C++ and Java programming needs to have its own dedicated GCSE, but that will never in this mostly technophobic country because its too hard for herman herp and derpina dumbnut. Music technology and production should also be taught from age 12, computer coding / programming from age 14, its really not hard at all for most kids nowadays who absolutely love working on computers.

And then people wonder why there's so much unemployment today when our education system is decades out of date and too focused on SATs and test results rather than actually teaching modern skills and techniques with current technological advances.
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I think some of the points you're making are true, but only up to GCSE level.. You give an average non-IT student a database and he wouldn't have a clue.. And that would likely be a major part of his job if he went down an IT route. This is the same as most of the things taught at A-level.. Especially hardware; a hell of a lot of students know absolutely nothing about hardware.

But there's also the pointthat even if the student DOES know everything there is to know about computers, they wouldn't have anything to show for it qualifications-wise, so an employer looking at their CV wouldn't know for sure, they'd just have the person's word. Just my opinion :P
 
But databases can still be taught merged into computing surely? And such work is easy to train people into understanding it. Regardless of what you study, you will still require training for most jobs out there. I remember doing my work experience from school in an office type job. A group of 4 or 5 people huddled around a circular hub of computers doing word / excel / database stuff. No one else in the group I was put to work with - all much older full time employees even knew how to change their desktops. When I showed them how, one still didn't realize the 'full screen' button for the smaller tile based wallpapers. A woman in the group jokingly commented 'OMG you shouldn't know more than we do, we've been working here a lot longer, you're fired!'.

Typical office job clowns that IT degrees are created for....

Then I showed them how to change their mouse cursors to moon walking dinosaurs on my last day before I left, and I was only 15 :p
 
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