Synoptic Project Week

Firstly- I'M SORRY!

this blog is super later and i have been quite inactive!

I'll be going through the synoptic Project week, which truthfully i was very very worried about and also super nervous about. if something breaks we have no helps, we have to do it all ourselves!

It was a great project to do as i could put some coding into practice, my biggest worry was getting the filter working for my website but with all the resources we have online in today's day and age. i convinced myself it could be done and set out my working time according of the 5 days

Day 1- Plan and prep all my ideas for the website, this includes wireframes, user stories etc
Day 2- Build the website and all the pages - all images have current place holders, website has some text in it.
Day 3- Get the last bits of the website built with functionality working/ get the images all inserted and get the filter working
Day 4- fix any issues you've found across a pages and do all the css on a webpage.
Day 5- Create the powerpoint presentation for any improves i could make.

I was surprised within myself on how little issue i thought i would initially have, luckily as i mentioned earlier we have everything at our finger tips and w3schools and code academy were my saviours!

Creating my Portfolio, Online Courses and Mental Preparation

Hey Guys,

we've got a big week coming up! we're going to start on the creation of our application for the elearning minis. Knowing i've got a big week ahead i've been doing alot of work to prepare by going through different online courses for creating good quality coding, learning about how colour co-ordinate things correctly and what colours portray what kind of moods and how they should be used for our application.

Starting my portfolio has actually been nerve wrecking almost, we're coming to a close on our project and it's our first project me and the guys have ever done to create an entire application and sell it.
By doing the portfolio and preparing for this week is giving me some confidence on all the work we've done will be sufficient enough, i'm in a good place and want this to be completed with my best efforts!

Don't have much else to write about this week as it's all been preparation but when i visit crewe and we start building i should have alot more interesting things to say with screenshots.

See you next time!

PHP Database?!?!?

Hey Guys. It's that time again!

i'm back here to show you some work i've been doing on the side of work.

Creating a new PHP database has been a new and exciting challenge to work with, down below will be a few snippets of my code.

If you stuggle to read these please email me at mario.begaj@escalla.co.uk and i'll provide a bigger screenshot/the files.

There isn't alot to write about this one, it's a basic CSS code,  i was keeping it a simple style of a login page.

This should hopefully be slightly more interesting, this is my error code where if any of the criteria isn't met, you'll be dealt an error message saying either, password and user doesn't match, or just the username / password doesn't match.

 This code is my initial HTML, as you can see there really isn't alot too it, that's because this links to all my other pages and data base to pull across data from the data, error messages and so on.

The register form is my file screenshot i have for you guys, this is the form the user must insert data in order to login, they must get it correct otherwise they'll be met with an error message, which will prevent them from moving any further.










For now this is quite basic, but hopefully in the future i will be able to create a database which allows hundreds of people to use to their needs.

I'll end this blog here.

Take care folks.

P.S i hope you all had a lovely Christmas and a happy new year :)

Exams, exams and oh more exams!!!

Hello All!!

Firstly, I would like to apologise for my inactivity! I've been very very busy, I'll be keeping this blog relatively short. 

I have some exciting things to show you about some PHP work I've been doing however you'll have to wait until my next blog for that!

I've just sat my SDLC methodoly exam, and oh god! the last few days have been absolute hell and a lot of stress due to the wording and style of this exam. it has not been easy for us and nor for gerrard.

I've been up in crewe for the last 3 days revising and stressing for this exam, and finally can I say I've finally completed it and passed! flying colours ;) it wasn't pretty but got through it in the end.

Hope you all have a lovely rest of the week, i'll be going to my work party tomorrow and destress with all the free alcohol ;)

Take care.

P.s Did i mention exams?

Week 9 - DB diagram fixes + Sign off!

Hi Guys,

I'm back with a hectic week at work unfortunately with all the projects, i didn't have time to post a blog last week however we've done it! we've finally received sign off for our wire frames and our Database diagrams.

Unfortunately we've had a few issues on getting an account with gliffy so we've all done some research onto new programmes/software we could use and are now using Lucid Charts.

Please see below our new updated DB diagram.

Tomorrow i have some Word Press Training in the office which should be fun as i've never used it before! should be super interesting and hopefully should start building the website sometime this week or next week. 

Till the next time, see you then 

Week 8 - Updated a new planner, wireframes and user entity diagrams

It's the time again, a new week and a new blog for the things we've been up to together.

Firstly we've had a new Planner put into place with some more cards and had more put information inserted into the cards, see screenshot below. 

This project is now being done as a group (forgot if i put that in my previous blog or not) this will help us work on this project as it's the first time doing something like where we must create a website, test and deploy it.

This is a difficult task however it's not something we can't overcome as a team for this. The last few weeks has also become rather tedious of consistently chasing up for sign off on our Wireframes and user entity diagrams.









Now for the wire frames and User entity diagrams, since my last project which unfortunately i was unable to do for my course we used some of those as templates (potentially in previous blogs)

I personally believe we have a good standard set up for our wire frames for the website however i do feel like once it's built it would look alot better than our initial outline of where things should be on our wire frames.

The Wireframe on the left is currently our login page and the one below will be our Landing page. I'll explain it slightly for our landing page as i feel like it can be a tad confusing at first when looking at it.

The top set of tabs are self explanatory they are tabs which you can click to be linked to another part of the website for contacting us, frequently asked questions etc

the next set of boxes will be a section e.g Word, Excel and so on the logo will be in the box and once hovering you can see all the videos regarding that one application. you're also able to search for videos or an application video in the search bar if you're looking for something specifically and don't want to be searching through all the videos.

Up above is our DB entity relationship diagram, unfortunately we have missed out a password for the user via a change requests but that will be updated soon enough.


This project as had quite a few highs and lows already but hopefully we push on as a team and get this project completed.

See you guys next week

Week 7

The Blogs must go on!

Me, Coral and Pj have come together for a group session for our project, throughout the day we done the following:

• Written and submitted project proposal.
• Drafted project plan.
• Added project plan to teams following the software development lifecycle.
• Coded HTML, CSS and JS for a responsive video player and uploaded the code files to teams.

I've added 2 screenshots below of our proposal and Our project plan and the 3rd one down is our Proposal.

As you can see, this project is going forward smoothly.

See you for the next one!