How to Harvard Reference

Harvard Referencing is important, this means that it must be done properly and is made as easy to understand as possible. Making sure that you have covered everything you need to in your reference means that when examiners look at your work they can find out whether or not it is legitimate information. Every different type of source you use needs to be referenced in a different type of way to others.

When referencing books you need to include, the author, year of publication, title of publication, place of publication, publisher, edition.

E-Books need to be referenced using, the author, year of publication, title of publication, publisher, edition, URL, date access.

Journal articles need to be show, author, year of publication, title of article, title of publication, issue information (the volume), page numbers when referencing.

Referencing a Internet site needs to use, the author, year of publication, title of publication, URL and date accessed.

What I am basing my Research Project on

The idea I have chosen to do for my research project is a website that shows/ tell people how to build item from shops like Ikea. This area is something that no one has ever made before, even though there is potential to be a very big market. I have looked at this in the past with one of my other projects with Steve. I did not really achieve a lot when it came to the research and production sides and if I am going to be doing this for my FMP it would benefit me greatly if I have done some well done research.

I really enjoy making website and designing everything, doing this for my FMP would be great because I have a real passion to do well. I want to make sure that all the research that I do towards it is very well backed up and provides me with the right information. I love learning new skills and I haven't really learned anything new when it comes to making websites in a long time, the more research I do means that I can find out what I need to learn when creating my website. When doing research I have never really go out and actually ask people in real life, what their opinions are on things, doing it this time should be a very interesting experience.

Making this site means that I can have a bit more fun with the design, this is because I really want to aim for the target audience of young adults. Young adults are the sorts of people that really understand the internet and can really appreciate a good website design compared to other age groups. Making the website would also not cost a lot to do, however it would take a very long time to set up and create. This is why it is important to find the right information and gather the right types of information for the project.

Museum Flyer

Two weeks ago we were set the task to design a flyer for one of the local museums in Bath. Having visited the museum a few months ago we have a good idea on what the museum is about and what its purpose is in Bath. 

Two weeks ago we visited the museum to talk to the person in charge about what they wanted out of the leaflet and things that we should alter and include. He also provided us with some stats on who visits the museum and the amount of people of visit. All of this information was very interesting and good to know. It gave us all a good idea on who we wanted our flyers to appeal to and how to design our flyer. He told us that we had to use the logo that was already made for the museum and this put all of us in a weird position, the logo isn't particularly the most glamorous of logos and the colours use for it are quite bland and stale.

So we made our first draft with a very very rough idea on what our flyers were going to look like. The layout I went for was very rushed and I didn't really believe that it would ever been successful in the final product, it ended up have 10 pages in total. After making this and discussing with my peers I came to the conclusion that 10 pages was way to much. The amount of content that we could put in the flyer had to be quick and to the point and having 10 pages might turn people away from reading inside. Also there was no real sense of order throughout the flyer. Everything felt sort of dumped and things didn't really connect on the page.

After my first draft I knew that I had many areas of improvement and lots of helpful idea and advise from peers. I decided to completely redesign my flyer, turning down the 10 pages to just 6 and creating a colour scheme for the flyer. I decided to stick with a Black, White and Red colour scheme, this is because it fits well with the logo and its something that other flyers around Bath have not really included in their colour scheme. Red is also a colour that stands out very well when on top of black or white colours. The only problem that could arise is if a person that does not have very good vision tries to read the flyer. However this should not be a problem for the audience that I am aiming for.