Diploma LIS IT Skills 2

Design Brief: Asking the right questions To be able to design a website that is appropriate and fit for purpose, you need to start by making sure that you have all of the information you need to create the website. Information such as background, goals and objectives, design, features, and functionality. One way of achieving this is to create a questionnaire. The questionnaire is used to help both you and the client decide what features are important and the kind of look and feel that the website needs to achieve. For your assessment, you will be creating your own website so you should look at these questionnaires and create your own responses. This should allow you to get a clear idea in your head of what your library is about, its history, functions, and how you would like your website to look. Here are some example questions https://designshack.net/articles/business-articles/15-must-ask-questions-when-taking-on-a-website-project/ https://marketingland.com/100-questions-you-m...

Project Libre Tasks With Project Libre, you start by defining the basic information about your project. Once you have provided the basic information, you can start to create your timeline by entering the tasks into the Gantt Chart. Predecessors In class we will work through The Big Move class example to create the timeline for the project. Class Activity 1 Using Project Libre, enter the tasks using the Gantt Chart View (Completed above as a class) Allocate/Estimate the duration for each task (Completed above as a class) Determine any predecessors for each task (Completed above as a class) Critical Path Analysis The Gantt Chart view in Project Libre will display the Critical Path in red. What does that mean? The Critical Path is the first area that you need to concentrate your time management skills. Any activity on the critical path that takes longer than the estimate will affect your end date. The blue activities have a bit of "wriggle room" (I know, not a technical project ...

Linking to your social media accounts Read the following article on embedding social media: https://www.businessnewsdaily.com/10673-embed-social-media-website.html One way to integrate social media on a website is to include a link to your social media accounts. Facebook Facebook has a plug-in generator that will allow you to embed a variety of Facebook items. https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/ Follow/like on Facebook Select Like Button from the left hand menu. Load the configurator and change/add your details. We will use the iFrame code as it is much more reliable and does not use Javascript SDK Paste the code into your HTML file where you would like the button to be. Save and run your code Page Plugin I added a like and embedded the page so my test web page looks like this: Embedded posts and videos You can embed any public post from Facebook. I have made this Facebook post public to demonstrate. And the result: Class Activity 1 Usi...