Sustainable+CBD+Adrian's+reflection

So, another project done! When I started this project I was thinking of having a lot of subtopics with information for each one but as the project progressed, I started to focus down more on just the sustainable buildings in and around Melbourne CBD.

Information was quite easy to find for the actual buildings on the internet, however, there was nothing in books and nothing significant in newspaper articles and pamphlets. Perhaps our biggest mistake was to not go to the actual buildings earlier in the project, by the time we did go, it was a bit too late to organise tours of the buildings so we only went on one actual tour (60 L). We did, however, get a fair bit of information through other mini excursions.

So we did get a fair bit of information, but a lot of it was just features which read better as straight dot-points, as a result, each building page had a short introduction and then some features below. While this did get a bit repetitive, I think that it has made it a lot easier to find the information you want in our wiki.

Turning to the technological side of things, I originally had some trouble with our interactive map due to Wikispace's incapability to display inline or internal CSS, it also didn't let me link it in the standard way and I finally found out that I could add the CSS definitions to the Wikispaces stylesheet. After learning that, making buttons for the links was a fairly simple task, the only difficulty was creating a JavaScript function to check whether it was currently on that page and remove the link if it was. The only other difficulty I had with the links was the inability to use the preview button due to the way I had written the function.

One other thing I had to overcome in HTML was the embedding of a video that wasn't in YouTube, it worked but started automatically and I had to make a JavaScript function to make it so the viewer could click either a button or a printscreen of the video to star it.

During the time I spent setting up our pages, I learnt a lot of CSS and HTML most of which I didn't end up using anyway, I know this will be useful knowledge for later on, however.

The studio was a great place to work and I found it nice to work as a whole year level in the same room.

Altogether, this project was very interesting. The many mini excursions and class excursions helped to break up the monotony of solid work and make the process more enjoyable. I am very pleased with how much information we got and how well this project turned out though there were some other things I would have liked to do.