Mentorship Resource - Almost complete

Hello all I'm sure you'll all share my excitement that the Mentorship resource has finally been completed... well I'm waiting for some feedback before its all officially live... which is where I'm hoping you guys will come in useful!

So please have a look through it, anything which looks a bit hmmm I'm not sure if that's working right or any spelling mistakes... ANYTHING please comment this post or drop me an email!

http://public.tulip.plymouth.ac.uk/Module/HEAB370%20AYAU%2009/Mentorship2010/default.aspx

Some things I'm soon to change are the quiz is in need of yet more work (the timing between solutions being displayed and taken away), but this time it should hopefully be quite simple to rectify. Other fun things are to check every link is working. Hopefully you guy's will be able to point out if any links are dead etc?!

That's all for now!

Mentorship 2009 - Part 2

After a recent meeting it's become apparent that there will be a need for some form of Flash interactivity in the site to allow the video's and similar to integrate nicely with the pages, as the resource is designed around a journey I felt the navigation would have to be key to the project.

Luckily the Webbies have just been finalised so with a category dedicated to 'BEST NAVIGATION/STRUCTURE' I felt it fitting to indulge in some research. Two sites who's navigation really stood out for me were:

• NIke ACG - http://www.nike.com/nikeacg/#dispatch


• KeithySon - http://www.keithtyson.com/#/intro/

I really like the Nike's spider diagram style navigation.



I've tried to reflect this in my sites design, this is early days yet, but I'm quite happy with the results... obviously the menu is a little bit more interactive than just a load of blobs with lines on them!:


We shall see how it ends up, but I'm quite happy with it, hopefully the other people I'm involved with on this project will also be happy!

Mentorship 2009

Right well it's been inevitable, like the fact that sooner or later your once full can of coke is eventually going to finish. Mentorship Update 2009, the previous years update was the first project I undertook in my current job. So am slightly ever so slightly nostalgic (spelling) about this task.

The plan this year was to start the task a lot earlier, (initial talks started early April) compared to last years start of June/July for a deadline in Mid September. Happily this year the project is being transferred into the familiar grounds of html and is aimed to be accessed online. Which is nice so if there is something wrong with it it can be changed in a matter of minutes and at no extra cost compared to weeks and £500 for the CD version... you live and learn!

The final platform is yet to be decided, but I'm hoping and pushing for it to be placed onto a Tulip site and with the hopefully (fingers crossed and all that jazz) that it'll be able to be viewed by non UOP staff via the new External view of Tulip due to be initiated in September 2009. I really hope this works out well as this should hopefully be one of the projects I go check this out I made it. Rather than yeah sorry about that one! Another possibility is to have it to lay on the new ARC system which is essentially a tool designed specifically for Placements, and seeing as this is an update for the Placement Development Teams it could fit on there, but it is also a learning resource so it could go onto SharePoint ooh the possibilities.

Well either way I shall keep this updated as and when anything interesting happens. The direct link can be found here: http://study.plymouth.ac.uk/Module/HEAB370%20AYAU%2007/MentoshipResource/default.aspx (UOP login required).

Initial designs are following my standard background swirls design, however as this is such a big project I'm going to try to tweak this design a bit here are some initial tweaking: