Finally Submitted

I am very relieved that my final year project submitted already. I manage to do CD cover and label design. Well, not something fancy but I like it as it is a clean-cut and elegant one, just like my taste of design. It was rather last minute though when I decided to do it. I just use Adobe Illustrator to design it and for a better result for printing. Since it is for final year project, I might as well wrap it up nicely. Here's how it looks like.

With this entry, I want to wish every one good luck for their future undertakings. I am looking forward to my nice holiday for now. Everyone deserve a break after hardwork, isn't it? So have a blast!

Week 16 - 98% Completed

This week I am just waiting for the submission. This is simply because I realize the more I try to do changes to my project, the more errors I must debug. So, I am currently happy with my web-site with a few additional features and functions I have embed to it (Rate and Comment functions). Something more than what I have presented, but it is relevant to my scope of project.

Finally I almost complete the course. I learn a lot from this final year project, especially web design using PHP and MySQL. Although its look simple but I am sure I will improve better in future. I must say that I benefited a lot from self-learning and doing research.

Now I am left with final testing and making sure that all my features work perfectly before I make my fully working website available online for public access. It seems that three years has gone in a blink.

Week 15 - Video Tutorial Finally Done

I manage to finish my video tutorials finally. I am so relieved. Anyway, I guess I was glad because this is one of the most difficult part for me. Thankfully, with some support and motivation I manage to get it done finally. I have come up with four videos for the tutorial. I may enhance it in the future, but that will certainly do for now.

After the alpha test, I am just progressing in terms of completing my unfinished part for the project. So far I have manage to debug errors along the way and also add in several other features to it. I'll be working on other minor back end as well as front end feature before submission. I guess I'll be done soon. As for now, I'll be a preparing for my upcoming exam. So, that's all for this week.

Week 14 - The Alpha Test

Alpha test was finally done. I am happy that I am able to present my work to the class. Although I got stuck a little bit as some of the page were not loaded properly. It gave a me shock, but thankfully it was not such a big deal. I believe that my work is fine so far. I just need to make sure that my codes works properly and that my pages loaded properly too when I submit my work.

I have finished all my static tutorials with screen shots and some video tutorials as well. Nonetheless, the other pages like download page, and gallery pages for video samples and rendered work images are fully completed as well. As for my admin page where my back end CMS codes actually are placed, I still need to do minor debugging to make it work perfectly.

Other than than, I am also done with modifying and customizing my forum pages. Phew..It seems like I have done quite a lot, but I still need to complete my unfinished video tutorials.

Now that I have completed my alpha test, I have also upload my website. Check it out in this url address provided. http://www.hendrazone.com/

Week 13 Progression

I have been working on my tutorial contents again this week. It may seems like simple work, but I guess I find it tedious. Good thing is I have completed my static text-based tutorials with screen shots. I'm glad that I managed to finished them. It is just so tiring to type out the contents and do the tutorials using 3dsMax at the same time. Hopefully my tutorials can be understood. At least I have tried my best for that.

I have also plan out my videos tutorial contents. That is one of the main component that I am yet to complete. Besides the tutorials, I have been working on my CMS(Content Management System) part as well. As I am not yet an expertin PHP and My Sql, I do take sometime debugging the errors I come across at times. However, the progression is so far so good. Not done yet, but I think I do progressed. Well, this coming Thursday will be the alpha test. I hereby wish everyone the best of luck.

Tutorial Page

Edit Tutorial in the Admin Page

Week 12 Progression

This week is another hectic week for me. I have been working continuously on my tutorial content. It takes me quite a while to come up with a tutorial. I have to actually do it step by step in 3dsMax and capture the static screen shots, not forgetting to type in the explanation. It is harder than I thought it'll be. Moreover, I have to check on grammar and usage of words to make sure that my tutorials are understandable and reliable.

I have upload a few tutorials to my website at the moment. I have also complete my gallery page and my download page. Good thing is that I finally manage to convert sample video works that I want to show in the site without slowing it down after converting. I convert it from flash.

This week I will most probably still work on my tutorials and continue coding for the back-end part of my website. Front-end wise, I guess I'm on the safe side already. I guess I will be stresser than ever from now on because I still have other assignments to do. A week before alpha test!

Download page

Week 11 - Working on Tutorial Contents

During the entire week 11, I have been organizing my contents for the word-based tutorials with screen shots as the visual guidelines that I am going to put in to my website. However, it is quite hard. I have to make sure that my tutorials are understandable for all. I have completed a few tutorials and yeah, that's quite a progress. Apart from that, I have also been working on my sample works pages. The gallery page that will display 3D works that I have done and the video animation that I have done for my previous assignments too. I have also manage to get a classmate of mine to contribute her sample work to be used in my gallery page.

I have challenge compressing it to smaller size. When I convert it to flv format, the videos actually lag. Haiz.. I am still exploring on that. Anyone know any solution to this? If I upload straight from my original work, it'll take forever to load. I tried uploading it to youtube, but also failed.

I managed to rendered couple of images from 3ds Max that I am going to display in my gallery page. I have my gallery page running properly. And I am using flash to do my gallery page. It is quite a progressive week for me. One of the sad part is, I haven't actually start recording my video tutorials. I plan on doing it after I sort out the current portion of my project progress. Again, wish me luck! That's all for now, have a busy week ahead.

Image Gallery Page

Video Gallery Page